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- Sodhro, Ali Hassan, 1986-, et al.
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Internet of medical things for independent living and re-learning
- 2021
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Ingår i: GLOBAL HEALTH 2021 : The Tenth International Conference on Global Health Challenges At: Barcelona, Spain. - 9781612088921 ; , s. 1-5, s. 1-5
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This position paper gives better insight about the role and importance of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) for independent living and re-learning for older adults. Sensing Technologies are the paradigm shift for transforming conventional healthcare practices into the smart, and self-assisted activities, which are envisioned for today's medical world. Internet of Things (IoT) and IoMT are the interrelated technologies for promoting independent living and re-learning practices. In this paper, re-learning is defined as the process for adults to recover useful instrumental activities of daily living skills that have been lost after an impairment.
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- Beery, Thomas, 1962-, et al.
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Covid-19 and outdoor recreation management : Increased participation, connection to nature, and a look to climate adaptation
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Outdoor Recreation. - 2213-0780 .- 2213-0799. ; 36, s. 100457-100457
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Outdoor recreation management perspectives were investigated based on the general perception of increased public outdoor recreation participation during the Covid-19 pandemic and supported by survey research at local, regional, and national levels in Sweden. There is an interest in how outdoor recreation professionals perceived outdoor recreation by the public during the pandemic and whether professionals could identify specific implications from the Covid-19/outdoor recreation experience. Climate adaptation literature supports the idea that current global challenge coupled with projections for ongoing challenge requires a pro-active approach; this turn to climate adaptation for potential consideration or guidance is based on characteristics that the Covid-19 pandemic shares with climate change. Outdoor recreational professionals' review of a recent public survey and subsequent semi-structured interviews with this group were conducted to obtain outdoor recreation professionals' detailed perceptions on survey outcomes. Results show that the professionals confirm a rapid and significant increase in outdoor recreation participation. Further, professionals identified critical trends in the increase of new or inexperienced outdoor recreation participants. A positive and proactive list of implications emerged as themes of the interviews. A review and synthesis of the themes support the national goals for outdoor recreation in Sweden. Further, results indicate a current opportunity for outdoor recreation to address concerns for diminishing nature experience and support connectedness to nature. The connectedness to nature outcome further strengthens the comparison with climate adaptation strategy given the potential relationship between connectedness to nature and pro-environmental behavior.
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- Andersson, Anders-Petter, 1969-, et al.
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Musical interaction for health improvement
- 2014
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Ingår i: Oxford handbook of interactive audio. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780199797226 ; , s. 247-262
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the past decade, tangible sensor technologies have matured and become less expensive and easier to use, leading to an explosion of innovative musical designs within video games, smartphone applications, and interactive art installations. Interactive audio has become an important design quality in commercially successful games like Guitar Hero , and a range of mobile phone applications motivating people to interact, play, dance, and collaborate with music. Parallel to the game, phone, and art scenes, an area of music and health research has grown, showing the positive results of using music to promote health and wellbeing in everyday situations and for a broad range of people, from children and elderly to people with psychological and physiological disabilities. Both quantitative medical and ecological humanistic research show that interaction with music can improve health, through music’s ability to evoke feelings, motivate people to interact, master, and cope with difficult situations, create social relations and experience shared meaning. Only recently, however, the music and health field has started to take interest in interactive audio, based on computer-mediated technologies’ potential for health improvement. Here, we show the potential of using interactive audio in what we call interactive musicking in the computer-based interactive environment Wave. Interactive musicking is based on musicologist Christopher Small’s concept “musicking”, meaning any form of relation-building that occurs between people, and people and things, related to activities that include music. For instance, musicking includes dancing, listening, and playing with music (in professional contexts and in amateur, everyday contexts). We have adapted the concept of "musicking" on the design of computer-based musical devices. The context for this chapter is the research project RHYME. RHYME is a multidisciplinary collaboration between the Centre for Music and Health at the Norwegian Academy of Music, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), and Informatics at the University of Oslo. Our target group is families with children with severe disabilities. Our goal is to improve health and wellbeing in the families through everyday musicking activities in interactive environments. Our research approach is to use knowledge from music and health research, musical composition and improvisation, musical action research, musicology, music sociology, and soundscape studies, when designing the tangible interactive environments. Our focus here is interaction design and composition strategies, following research-by-design methodology, creating interactive musicking environments. We describe the research and design of the interactive musicking environment Wave, based on video documentation, during a sequence of actions. Our findings suggest some interactive audio design strategies to improve health. We base the design strategies on musical actions performed while playing an instrument, such as impulsive or iterative hitting, or sustainable stroking of an instrument. Musical actions like these can also be used for musicking in everyday contexts, creating direct sound responses to evoke feelings that create expectations and confirm interactions. In opposition to a more control-oriented, instrument and interface perspective, we argue that musical variation and narrative models can be used to design interactive audio, where the audio is seen as an actor taking many different roles, as instrument, co-musician, toy, etc. In this way, the audio and the interactive musicking environments will change over time, answering with direct response, as well as nose-thumbing and changing response, motivating creation, play, and social interaction. Musical variation can also be used to design musical backgrounds and soundscapes that can be used for creating layers of ambience. These models create a safe environment and contribute to shared meaning.
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- Ejlertsson, Göran, 1948-
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Övningsbok i statistik för hälsovetenskaperna
- 2012
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Bok (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Den här boken, vilken ersätter den tidigare ”Övningsbok i statistik”, har en direkt koppling till boken ”Statistik för hälsovetenskaperna” av samme författare. Kapitelindelningen är samma i de båda böckerna. I en tid med allt färre lärarledda undervisningstimmar, blir behovet av böcker för självstudier allt större. Det behovet avser den här boken möta.Här finns totalt 131 övningsuppgifter, med deluppgifter inräknade nästan det dubbla. Lösningarna till exemplen förklaras ingående, såväl logiskt som resonemangsvis. Författaren har lagt sig vinn om att ha en praktisk inriktning på övningsuppgifterna och de flesta exemplen har verklighetsbakgrund. Här finns en blandning av lösningar, där den logiska slutledningen bygger på endera egna beräkningar eller tolkning av datorutskrifter.Boken innehåller uppgifter om studiedesign med viktiga grundbegrepp, beskrivning av material med hjälp av tabeller och diagram samt olika genomsnitts- och spridningsmått. Standardisering ingår. Dessutom ingår ett stort antal övningsuppgifter om hypotesprövning vid olika studiedesigner med bl a t-test, Wilcoxon-test, z-test vid proportionstal, chitvåtest och konfidensintervall. Vissa centrala epidemiologiska begrepp ingår också samt linjär regression och korrelation. En del exempel finns inom området multivariat analys.För att övningsboken ska vara lämplig att använda även för den som läser en annan huvudbok än ”Statistik för hälsovetenskaperna”, finns inledningsvis läsanvisningar, vilka tydligt redovisar de olika kapitlens innehåll. Exemplen har hämtats från hälsovetenskaperna generellt, dvs de berör yrkesgrupper som folkhälsovetare, sjuksköterskor, sjukgymnaster, arbetsterapeuter, socialarbetare, läkare m fl. Boken lämpar sig därför speciellt för högskole- och universitetsstuderande samt yrkesverksamma inom dessa områden.
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- Westergren, Albert
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The minimal eating observation form – version II (MEOF-II) revisited – validity and reliability
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Nursing Measurement. - 1061-3749 .- 1945-7049. ; 27:3, s. 478-492
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background and purpose: The Minimal Eating Observation Form-Version II (MEOF-II) is a screening and research tool for eating difficulties. Here we assess the psychometric properties of the tool. Methods: Cross-sectional MEOF-II data, n = 5,956 persons (nursing home residents [n = 3,087]; in-hospital patients [n = 1,490]; mean age 76.9; 61% women). Data was analyzed taking account of the dichotomous nature of item-level data, that is, based on tetrachoric correlations. Results: The MEOF-II items (n = 9) belonged to one higher order unidimensional factor (61.7% explained variance, omega 0.92), and three lower level factors, with three items each (92.9% explained variance, omega 0.83-0.88): deglutition; ingestion; and energy/appetite. Conclusion: The study provides support for the reliability and validity of the MEOF-II total scale and subscales, and the findings are in line with previous studies.
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