Validation of Educational Materials for a Mobile Application for Patients with Kidney Disease on Hemodialysis.

Worldwide, chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health problem due to its high morbidity and mortality rates. For CKD patients, mobile health applications have functioned as a strategy that promotes patient care through valid and reliable educational materials. This is a prospective and descriptive three-stage study using content experts. Results created three visual and three audiovisual materials with acceptable evaluations. The design and validation of educational materials are a valid and reliable method for patient health education through mobile health applications.

Mobile Apps to Promote and Motivate Exercise in Adolescents in Mexico: A Systematic Review.

Worldwide, more than 5.4 billion people have a smartphone. Based on this, thousands of Apps are being developed, each one with different functions such as: education, communication, organization, home automatization and exercising. The aim of this study was to analyze the scientific evidence available worldwide on mobile applications to promote and motivate exercise in adolescents. It was carried out following the PRISMA. A total of 483 articles were identified, of which 300 were eliminated. For title 247, for abstract 33 and 20 for other reasons, giving a total of 183 articles to assess their eligibility, 158 were eliminated. Remaining 25 articles, 12 for abstract and 26 for other reasons, giving a total of 6 articles included for the study. The use of Apps aimed at adolescents are tools that can help with personal care and health issues in this group.

Health Informatics: A Challenge for Nurses in Public Health in Rural Mexico.

Health informatics has significantly advanced global technology, yet challenges persist in public health and rural nursing in Mexico due to social inequalities, limited technology access, and suboptimal infrastructure, compounded by the absence of nurse informaticians as viable career options. Overcoming these barriers necessitates international collaboration, empowering Mexican nurses to contribute to universal health access and advocate for health equity. Interventions must extend beyond nursing curricula to existing workforces, ensuring they can address the needs of vulnerable populations in Mexico. Long-term international support is crucial to bridge these gaps and unleash the full potential of Mexican nurses in influencing global health.

Future Needs in Nursing Informatics - Preliminary Findings from the Global Nursing Informatics Survey.

This study investigates the evolving landscape of nursing informatics by conducting a follow-up survey initiated by the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Students and Emerging Professionals (SEP) Nursing Informatics (NI) group in 2015 and 2019. The participants were asked to describe what they thought should be done in their institutions and countries to advance nursing informatics in the next 5-10 years. For this paper, responses in English acquired by December 2023 were analysed using inductive content analysis. Identified needs covered a) recognition and roles, b) educational needs, c) technological needs, and d) research needs. The initial findings indicate that, despite significant progress in nursing informatics, the current needs closely mirror those identified in the 2015 survey.

Mobile Applications in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review.

JUSTIFICATION: Worldwide, 850 million people suffer from chronic kidney disease (CKD), and in Mexico it is the tenth cause of mortality with 13,167 deaths per year. CKD patients undergoing hemodialysis present challenges in following the prescribed treatment and managing care; Therefore, different health strategies have been proposed to address those challenges, including mobile health applications. OBJECTIVE: Analyze the scientific evidence available worldwide on mobile health applications for patients with CKD on hemodialysis that have been validated, evaluated, implemented or in the process of development. METHODS: Systematic review of the literature following the PRISMA statement and search question with the PICOT-D format. Databases with keywords in 12 languages were consulted. RESULTS: Of 474 manuscripts, seven met the inclusion criteria. Mobile health applications were designed using different methodologies. Mobile health applications were found mainly aimed at self-monitoring and/or self-management, including health literacy, of patients with CKD.

Towards Automated Evaluation of Patient Centered Care-Assessing the Potential of Electronic Health Records.

Providing patient centered care is a crucial element of high quality care. It can be defined as a responsive way of caring for and empowering patients, embodying compassion, empathy, and responsiveness to the patient's needs. The aim of this study was to assess the potential of using EHRs as information source in the development of tools for assessing PCC. An annotation guide following the Person-centred Practice Framework proposed by McCance and McCormack was developed for the purpose of this study. Twenty patients' documents were manually annotated, resulting in 539 expressions. All dimensions of the framework were covered in the documents, with 61.3% of expressions describing the activity of engaging authentically with the patient. The results of this study indicate that electronic health records are one potential source of information in automated evaluation of patient centered care, however more information is still needed on how to interpret this information.

¿Cómo construir un Cuerpo Académico... y tener éxito? / How to integrate an Academic Group... and be successful?

Introducción: para las universidades públicas, uno de los indicadores fundamentales es consolidar los grupos de investigación en Cuerpos Académicos (CA). Sin embargo, no existe una guía que apoye la transición. El propósito es exponer algunas recomendaciones para conformar un CA con éxito, con base en las experiencias de trabajo del Cuerpo Académico Intervenciones para el Cuidado de la Salud. Desarrollo: los CA están conformados por docentes-investigadores de tiempo completo que comparten y desarrollan una línea de investigación en temas disciplinares o multidisciplinares, enfocados en objetivos académicos comunes. La reflexión que plantea este manuscrito contribuye a identificar las fortalezas y áreas de oportunidad de los grupos de investigación, así mismo se describen algunas estrategias para transitar y consolidar un CA: 1. Selección de los integrantes, 2. Línea de investigación, 3. Proyectos, 4. Servicio a la sociedad, 5. Trabajo colegiado, 6. Redes de investigación, 7. Integración de estudiantes y 8. Liderazgo transformacional. Conclusión: la creación de CA es fundamental en el desarrollo de las instituciones de educación superior en México, para alcanzar este reto es necesario integrar estrategias innovador... (AU)

Abstract Introduction: For public universities, a fundamental indicator is to consolidate research groups in Academic Bodies (AB). However, there is no guide to support the transition. Purpose: to present some recommendations to form AB successfully based on the work experiences of the Academic Body Interventions for Health Care. Development: The academic bodies are made up of full-time professors-researchers who share and develop a line of research on disciplinary or multidisciplinary topics and which entail a set of common academic objectives and goals. The reflection proposed by this manuscript contributes to identifying the strengths and areas of opportunity of the research groups, as well as describing some strategies to consolidate as an academic body: 1. The selection of the members, 2. The line of research, 3. Projects, 4. Service to society, 5. Collegiate work, 6. Research networks, 7. Integration of students and 8. Transformational leadership. Conclusion: Creating Academic Bodies is essential in the development of higher education institutions in Mexico, to meet this challenge it is necessary to integrate innovative strategies to generate and disseminate knowledge and the disposition of the members for collegiate work.

Representation of Environmental Concepts Associated with Health Impacts in Computer Standardized Clinical Terminologies.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the representation of environmental concepts associated with health impacts in standardized clinical terminologies. METHODS: This study used a descriptive approach with methods informed by a procedural framework for standardized clinical terminology mapping. The United Nations Global Indicator Framework for the Sustainable Development Goals and Targets was used as the source document for concept extraction. The target terminologies were the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) and the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP). Manual and automated mapping methods were utilized. The lists of candidate matches were reviewed and iterated until a final mapping match list was achieved. RESULTS: A total of 119 concepts with 133 mapping matches were added to the final SNOMED CT list. Fifty-three (39.8%) were direct matches, 37 (27.8%) were narrower than matches, 35 (26.3%) were broader than matches, and 8 (6%) had no matches. A total of 26 concepts with 27 matches were added to the final ICNP list. Eight (29.6%) were direct matches, 4 (14.8%) were narrower than, 7 (25.9%) were broader than, and 8 (29.6%) were no matches. CONCLUSION: Following this evaluation, both strengths and gaps were identified. Gaps in terminology representation included concepts related to cost expenditures, affordability, community engagement, water, air and sanitation. The inclusion of these concepts is necessary to advance the clinical reporting of these environmental and sustainability indicators. As environmental concepts encoded in standardized terminologies expand, additional insights into data and health conditions, research, education, and policy-level decision-making will be identified.

Assessing the carbon footprint of digital health interventions: a scoping review.

OBJECTIVE: Integration of environmentally sustainable digital health interventions requires robust evaluation of their carbon emission life-cycle before implementation in healthcare. This scoping review surveys the evidence on available environmental assessment frameworks, methods, and tools to evaluate the carbon footprint of digital health interventions for environmentally sustainable healthcare. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Medline (Ovid), Embase (Ovid). PsycINFO (Ovid), CINAHL, Web of Science, Scopus (which indexes IEEE Xplore, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science and ACM databases), Compendex, and Inspec databases were searched with no time or language constraints. The Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA_SCR), Joanna Briggs Scoping Review Framework, and template for intervention description and replication (TiDiER) checklist were used to structure and report the findings. RESULTS: From 3299 studies screened, data was extracted from 13 full-text studies. No standardised methods or validated tools were identified to systematically determine the environmental sustainability of a digital health intervention over its full life-cycle from conception to realisation. Most studies (n = 8) adapted publicly available carbon calculators to estimate telehealth travel-related emissions. Others adapted these tools to examine the environmental impact of electronic health records (n = 2), e-prescriptions and e-referrals (n = 1), and robotic surgery (n = 1). One study explored optimising the information system electricity consumption of telemedicine. No validated systems-based approach to evaluation and validation of digital health interventions could be identified. CONCLUSION: There is a need to develop standardised, validated methods and tools for healthcare environments to assist stakeholders to make informed decisions about reduction of carbon emissions from digital health interventions.

Description of the Process to Validate the Mexican Nurse Informatics Competency Self-Assessment Scale.

Nurses need to have sufficient competencies in nursing informatics to be able to provide safe and efficient care. The Self-Assessment of Nursing Informatics Competencies Scale (SANICS) has been developed and validated as a self-report measure of informatics competencies in Western settings. In this work, we describe the ongoing study that aims to validate and translate SANICS into the Mexican setting.

Nursing Informatics Research Trends: Findings from an International Survey.

This follow-up survey on trends in Nursing Informatics (NI) was conducted by the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Student and Emerging Professionals (SEP) group as a cross-sectional study in 2019. There were 455 responses from 24 countries. Based on the findings NI research is evolving rapidly. Current ten most common trends include: clinical quality measures, clinical decision support, big data, artificial intelligence, care coordination, education and competencies, patient safety, mobile health, description of nursing practices and evaluation of patient outcomes. The findings help support the efforts to efficiently use resources in the promotion of health care activities, to support the development of informatics education and to grow NI as a profession.

Development of an eHealth Nursing Intervention on Self-Care to Prevent Diabetic Foot in Rural Mexico: A Pilot Test.

Diabetic foot affects nearly 6% of people living with Type 2 diabetes (T2D). It is also the most common complication of T2D and is associated with infection, ulceration. eHealth facilitation of Non-communicable diseases management has the potential to increase self-care and engage patients. The aim of this study is to develop an eHealth intervention to prevent diabetic foot.

Self-Management Capacity in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Using Educational Interventions: A Pilot Study.

Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) has been increasing in prevalence over the last decade in Mexico. The glycemic control actions can help to prevent complications. The aimed is to pilot an educational intervention in self- management of adults with T2D through using text messages. Findings show the respondents reported a low level of self-care skills of T2D and there was an increase in the self-care skills after it.

Emerging Professional's View of the Landscape: Nursing Informatics Curriculum, Competencies, and Career Opportunities.

The curriculum associated with nursing informatics (NI) education is not standardized, therefore the perspectives of new and emerging nurse informaticians is important. How these curricula differences affect career opportunities of new nursing informaticians, and in turn influenced current career choices will be explored. Synthesizing opinions with themes extracted from a 2014 international study-Advancing nursi informatics in the next decade: Recommendations from an international survey will be summarized.