Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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Findings and Future Directions from a Smoking Cessation Trial Utilizing a Clinical Decision Support Tool
Published 2022Background Tobacco smoking is the leading cause of disease, death, and disability in the United States. Dental practitioners are advised to provide evidence-based smoking cessation interventions to their patients, yet ...Article -
Experiences of risk in Australian hotel quarantine: a qualitative study
Published 2022BackgroundIn response to the threat of COVID-19 infection, Australia mandated a 14 day quarantine period in a designated facility for all travellers returning from overseas from late March 2020. These facilities were usually ...Article -
COVID-19 IDD: Findings from a global survey exploring family members’ and paid staff’s perceptions of the impact of COVID-19 on individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their caregivers.
Published 2022Background: A growing body of evidence attests to the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) during the pandemic. This study asked caregivers about their ...Article -
The risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2 or developing COVID-19 for people with cancer: a systematic review of the early evidence.
Published 2022BACKGROUND: The early COVID-19 literature suggested that people with cancer may be more likely to be infected with SARS-CoV-2 or develop COVID-19 than people without cancer, due to increased health services contact and/or ...Article -
Study on the use of healthcare chatbots among young people (17-35) in China during the Omicron Wave of COVID-19: An evaluation of the user experience of and satisfaction with the technology.
Published 2022BACKGROUND: Long before the outbreak of COVID-19, chatbots had been playing an increasingly crucial role and gaining growing popularity in healthcare. In the current omicron waves of this pandemic when the most resilient ...Article