scholarly journals User Perception Towards mHealth Technologies for Health and Well-being Monitoring in Pregnancy Care: Qualitative Study (Preprint)

10.2196/28628 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Li ◽  
David Silvera-Tawil ◽  
Marlien Varnfield ◽  
M Sazzad Hussain ◽  
Vanitha Math
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
User Perception ◽  
Pregnancy Care ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
In Pregnancy

User Perception Towards mHealth Technologies for Health and Well-being Monitoring in Pregnancy Care: Qualitative Study (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Li ◽  
David Silvera-Tawil ◽  
Marlien Varnfield ◽  
M Sazzad Hussain ◽  
Vanitha Math
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Perinatal Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Technical Solution ◽  
Pregnancy Care ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
In Pregnancy

BACKGROUND Mobile Health (mHealth) technologies, such as wearable devices and mobile applications have become popular for lifestyle and healthcare support. They have the potential to be beneficial for pregnancy monitoring, in the form of health and well-being tools to facilitate the tracking of health status changes, risks and complications of pregnant women. However, research on understanding clinicians’ and pregnant women’s interests, preferences and requirements for mHealth solutions tailored to pregnancy care is limited. OBJECTIVE This qualitative study aimed to understand clinicians’ and pregnant women’s perceptions on the potential use of mHealth to support the monitoring of health and well-being during pregnancy. METHODS Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four pregnant women, four postnatal women, and thirteen clinicians working in perinatal care. RESULTS Clinicians perceived the potential benefit of mHealth in supporting different levels of health and wellbeing monitoring, risk assessment and care provision in pregnancy care. The majority of women participants were open to the use of wearables and health monitoring devices and were more likely to use these technologies if they knew that clinicians can monitor the data. While some pregnancy-related medical conditions can be suitable for an mHealth model of remote monitoring, there are clinical and technical challenges for introducing mHealth in pregnancy care. Incorporating appropriate health and well-being measures, intelligent detection of abnormalities and tailored information for pregnant women were considered critical. Usability and data privacy were among the concerns of participants. The challenges of getting pregnant women engaged in longitudinal mHealth monitoring, the extra work required for clinicians in monitoring data, and the need for an evidence-based technical solution were highlighted. CONCLUSIONS mHealth technologies, such as wearable sensors, smart health devices and mobile applications capable of supporting the pregnancy journey are emerging. Clinical, technical and practical factors associated with the use of mHealth technologies to monitor health and well-being, as well as strategies for motivating pregnant women and clinicians’ in the use of the technologies need to be carefully considered before the introduction of mHealth pregnancy care routine and practices.

Ambiguous Encounters: Revisiting Foucault and Goffman at an Activation Programme for Asylum-seekers

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrine Syppli Kohl
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Strategic Interactions ◽  
Cyclical Process ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Roll Out

Abstract This qualitative study combined the approaches of Foucault and Goffman to investigate the consequences of a “roll-out” neoliberal “activation” programme on Denmark’s reception of asylum-seekers. The analysis found that the activation programme is an ambiguous technology of power intended to shape asylum-seekers into productive citizens by simultaneously disciplining them and improving their health and well-being, while using their labour to reduce costs. The strategic interactions in the job centre reflected the ambiguities created by these oft-incongruent aims, and activation caused conflicts as it amplified activities experienced as meaningless and humiliating. I argue that these consequences stem from the ambiguity, uncertainty, and trouble produced at the intersection of competing projects of rule in a “sensitive space”, and that the individualisation of responsibility for their own marginalisation, simultaneously serve to exclude asylum-seekers and to confine them to categories that license continued institutional discipline. Thereby, the intervention feeds cyclical process of failed integration and ill-fated interventions. Indeed, by individualising the responsibility for integration, such interventions depoliticise the marginalisation of citizens of immigrant decent and legitimise efforts to reduce immigration by fuelling problematisations of immigrants as expensive, deviant, and less employable.

scholarly journals Developing a best practice pathway to support improvements in Indigenous Australians’ mental health and well-being: a qualitative study: Figure 1

BMJ Open ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. e007938 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael Hinton ◽  
David J Kavanagh ◽  
Lesley Barclay ◽  
Richard Chenhall ◽  
Tricia Nagel
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Indigenous Australians ◽  
Health And Well Being

The Long-Term Effects of Solitary Confinement From the Perspective of Inmates

2021 ◽  
Vol 101 (6) ◽  
pp. 652-674
Author(s):  
Liat Tayer ◽  
Tomer Einat ◽  
Anat Yaron Antar
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Physical Exercise ◽  
Behavioral Disorders ◽  
Physical Aggression ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Solitary Confinement ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Mental And Behavioral Disorders

This qualitative study analyzes the effects of solitary confinement on prisoners and the strategies used by them to cope with its difficulties. The findings indicate that solitary confinement is perceived as unfair and as intensifying hostile emotions and physical aggression, and that it is related to a range of long-term physiological, mental, and behavioral disorders. Three strategies are used to cope with the difficulties of solitary confinement: keeping to a ritualistic routine, a religious lifestyle, and physical exercise. We conclude that solitary confinement exacerbates the difficulties of detention and affects prisoners’ health and well-being for short and long terms.

scholarly journals Young People’s Participation in Envisioning Community Change:

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-149
Author(s):  
Caitlin Noelle Wood
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Change ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Indigenous Youth ◽  
Research Framework ◽  
Sociology Of Childhood ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract It is vitally important that Indigenous youth are provided a forum to express and share their expertise and knowledge on all matters that affect and impact their lives.  Through the use of photo-voice, this qualitative study provided the space for eleven youth from (location withheld for review) to share their perspectives on their community and environment, their lives, and how they conceptualize childhood. Employing the theoretical frameworks of the Sociology of Childhood, children’s rights, desire-centred research framework, and an Indigenous culturally responsive method, four over-arching themes emerged – the importance of: i) relationships; ii) health and well-being; iii) knowledge; and iv) community and culture. The youth in this study demonstrated their capacity to identify and share their unique perspectives on their community and proficiencies in assessing their community’s strengths and challenges – further demonstrating that youth are not merely passive subjects of social structures, but competent citizens able to contribute to change in authentic ways.  

scholarly journals Evaluating an mHealth App for Health and Well-Being at Work: Mixed-Method Qualitative Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. e72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsbeth Marieke de Korte ◽  
Noortje Wiezer ◽  
Joris H Janssen ◽  
Peter Vink ◽  
Wessel Kraaij
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health And Well Being
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