"Narrative evaluation"

BACKGROUND: Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) plays a crucial role in the growth and functional development of the infant brain. However, the impact of additional DHA supplementation on neurodevelopment in infants remains controversial in randomized controlled trials. In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we aimed to investigate the effects of prenatal and postnatal DHA supplementation on neurodevelopment. METHODS: We systematically searched the MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library electronic databases using a predefined strategy until 8 February 2024...

BACKGROUND: Recommender systems help narrow down a large range of items to a smaller, personalized set. NarraGive is a first-in-field hybrid recommender system for mental health recovery narratives, recommending narratives based on their content and narrator characteristics (using content-based filtering) and on narratives beneficially impacting other similar users (using collaborative filtering). NarraGive is integrated into the Narrative Experiences Online (NEON) intervention, a web application providing access to the NEON Collection of recovery narratives...

There is increasing interest in understanding potential bias in medical education. We used natural language processing (NLP) to evaluate potential bias in clinical clerkship evaluations. Data from medical evaluations and administrative databases for medical students enrolled in third-year clinical clerkship rotations across two academic years. We collected demographic information of students and faculty evaluators to determine gender/racial concordance (i.e., whether the student and faculty identified with the same demographic)...

PURPOSE: In the current age of greater digital delivery of services, it is important to examine the validity and differences between spoken and digital delivery of materials. The current study is a practice-based research partnership between school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and researchers, evaluating presentation effects and validity of a narrative retell assessment tool created by SLPs. METHOD: Fifty-one children across kindergarten, Grade 1, and Grade 2 completed the narrative retell task, retelling One Frog Too Many and Frog Goes to Dinner in three in-person story presentation conditions administered 1 week apart: spoken, iPad with audio-recorded natural rate of speech, and iPad with slow rate of speech...

BACKGROUND: Strength2Strength (S2S) is a group psychoeducational program aiming to build resilience among families supporting relatives after traumatic injury. OBJECTIVE: To test the feasibility, acceptability and outcomes of teleconference delivery of a 5 hour S2S program in rural New South Wales. METHODS: A mixed methods design investigated the (i) convenience of telephone-based delivery; and (ii) acceptability of the program material (purpose-designed survey and the Narrative Evaluation of Intervention Interview)...

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OBJECTIVE: Women want more and higher quality information about the effects of perinatal cannabis use (PCU) on child health, and they turn to anonymous sources of information, such as online pregnancy forums, to make decisions about their use. This study characterized perceptions of the developmental impact of PCU on children via a narrative evaluation of a public forum on which mothers to discuss a range of issues around cannabis use. METHOD: A random sample of ten threads per month from June 2020 to May 2021 were scraped from the "Ganja Mamas" forum on Whattoexpect...

Observational assessments in the clinical context are a cornerstone of evaluation in medical education. Leniency bias, described in performance management in the business arena appears to widely impact these assessments with medical training. Natural language processing provides a potential tool that medical educators may leverage to decipher underlying meaning in narrative assessment. A "proof-of-concept" study at the Cumming School of Medicine supports this notion and suggests further work would be a worthwhile pursuit in this field...

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OBJECTIVE: To determine whether incorporating our novel in-training evaluation report (ITER), which prompts each resident to list at least three self-identified learning goals, improved the quality of narrative assessments as measured by the Narrative Evaluation Quality Instrument (NEQI). METHODS: A total of 1468 narrative assessments from a single institution from 2017 to 2021 were deidentified, compiled, and sorted into the pre-intervention form arm and post-intervention form arm...

PURPOSE: With the increased attention to the principles of evidence-based practice (EBP), social workers are challenged to adapt their daily interventions accordingly when treating clients. They usually work with individual clients, all with their own specificities. Single-Case Experimental Designs (SCEDs) can be used to inform a social worker about the effectiveness of an intervention at the individual client level. In everyday social work practice, however, it is difficult to meet methodological requirements of SCEDs to find causal explanations...

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Ultrasonography has advantages for assessing psoriatic arthritis (PsA) due to its ability to evaluate several targets, including joints, entheses, and tendons, but also skin and nails. Although ultrasound is widely used in PsA, nail ultrasound, despite its potential as a non-invasive method for the early detection of inflammation in the nail apparatus, has low applicability in medical practice, as probes with a higher frequency are needed compared with the frequency of probes usually used. In the present article, we have narratively evaluated the studies published in the last 5 years (19 February 2018-18 February 2023) on nail ultrasound value in the diagnosis and monitoring of PsA...

INTRODUCTION: Pre-clerkship medical students rely on various educational experiences to decide on the residency they would like to pursue. We conducted a longitudinal mixed-methods study to identify educational experiences in pre-clerkship that are associated with an interest in pursuing surgery. METHODS: Pre-clerkship medical students were invited to complete an initial survey regarding their interest in surgery and educational exposures. After 10 months, a follow-up survey was sent to identify changes in their interest and the role of educational experiences they may have had in the interim...

Background: The current gold standard of treatment for giant hiatal hernias (GHHs) is laparoscopic surgery. Laparoscopic surgery was performed as a less invasive procedure for paraesophageal hernias more than 25 years ago. Its viability and safety have almost all been shown. Materials and Methods: A review of recent and current studies' literature was done. Prospective randomized trials, systematic reviews, clinical reviews, and original articles were all investigated. The data were gathered in the form of a narrative evaluation...

Unprofessional faculty behaviors negatively impact the well-being of trainees yet are infrequently reported through established reporting systems. Manual review of narrative faculty evaluations provides an additional avenue for identifying unprofessional behavior but is time- and resource-intensive, and therefore of limited value for identifying and remediating faculty with professionalism concerns. Natural language processing (NLP) techniques may provide a mechanism for streamlining manual review processes to identify faculty professionalism lapses...

AIM: The aims of this paper are (1) to present the results of the development, content validation and implementation study of the Relationship Competencies Guiding Tool; (2) to provide examples of how each item in the tool is reflected in clinical narratives written by nurses and justify the corresponding scores after the evaluation; (3) to present how the language and content of the narratives are interpreted with the tool and to describe an exemplar; and (4) to present barriers to and facilitators of the application of the tool...

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BACKGROUND: Natural language processing (NLP) based clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) have demonstrated the ability to extract vital information from patient electronic health records (EHRs) to facilitate important decision support tasks. While obtaining accurate, medical domain interpretable results is crucial, it is demanding because real-world EHRs contain many inconsistencies and inaccuracies. Further, testing of such machine learning-based systems in clinical practice has received limited attention and are yet to be accepted by clinicians for regular use...

OBJECTIVES: This systematic review aimed to answer the following question 'What are the worldwide prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection and associated factors among oral health-care workers (OHCWs) before vaccination?' METHODS: Seven databases and registers as well as three grey databases were searched for observational studies in the field. Paired reviewers independently screened studies, extracted data and assessed the methodological quality. Overall seroprevalence for SARS-CoV-2 infection was analysed using a random-effect model subgrouped by professional category...