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Monash University
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Università degli Studi di Padova
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University of Padova
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Queensland University of Technology
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 04-2015
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617715000211
Abstract: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients often present with prospective memory (PM) dysfunction. Forgetting to complete tasks may result in a loss of independence, limited employment prospects and anxiety, therefore, it is important to develop programs to improve PM performance in TBI patients. A strategy which may improve PM performance is implementation intentions. It involves making explicit plans specifying when, where and how one will perform a task in the future. In the present study, a group of 36 TBI patients and a group of 34 controls performed Virtual Week using either implementation intentions or no strategy. The results showed that the PM performance of TBI patients was less accurate than controls, in particular when the PM cue was time-based. No effect of implementation intentions was observed for TBI patients, however, controls improved their PM performance when the task was time-based. The findings suggest that strategies to improve PM in this clinical group are likely to be more complex than those that benefit healthy adults and may involve targeting phases of the PM process other than, or in addition to, the intention formation phase. ( JINS , 2015, 21 , 305–313)
Publisher: JMIR Publications Inc.
Date: 17-08-2022
Abstract: n March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the COVID-19 virus to be a pandemic. This led to a rapid shift to remote mental health care services using information and communication technologies to help control the spread of the virus. From the beginning of the pandemic up until February 2021, 49.5 million telehealth consultations were made in Australia - an increase from 6.1% in March 2020 to 20% in February 2021. he objective of this study was to evaluate the accessibility of telementalhealth and identify unique challenges and facilitators to using telehealth for mental health consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic from the clinician and clinic staff’s point-of-view. This will inform research to improve accessibility of telementalhealth. ll staff at a busy suite of mental health clinics The Turner Clinics, Monash University Melbourne Australia, were invited to be interviewed about their experience of delivering mental health services using telehealth during the pandemic including perceptions of patients’ experience of using telementalhealth. A thematic analysis was conducted on transcripts of semi-structured interviews to explore their experiences including what they felt were barriers and facilitators to accessibility to telementalhealth consultations. nterviews were conducted with a range of health care providers (neuropsychologists, clinical and provisional psychologists, and administrative staff) who had been directed involved in telehealth consultations at the Turner Clinics as the primary option for conducting appointments. The inductive analysis of the interview transcripts identified five themes: 1) physical and psychiatric morbidity, 2) client setting and privacy, 3) distance and time, 4) technology, and 5) policies, processes and procedures. Numerous barriers and facilitators to telementalhealth accessibility were identified within these themes. he delivery of mental health care services is likely to adopt a hybrid model even after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to improve the accessibility of telementalhealth, infrastructure should support this to facilitate accessibility for people who are unable to attend mental health consultations physically, but also enable access for those who benefit from face-to-face consultations. These should be addressed with the creation of telehealth-centred procedures at clinics, clinical and public policy changes, and technological solutions. ot a trial.
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 03-06-2023
DOI: 10.3390/NU15112622
Abstract: The development of early-onset cow’s milk protein allergy and atopic dermatitis during the first months of life is multifactorial, including both genetic and nutritional aspects. This study aims to assess the impact of different feeding patterns on the incidence of cow’s milk protein allergy, atopic dermatitis, and growth among infants with a family history of allergy. A total of 551 high-risk infants were randomly recruited from 3 European countries in three feeding regimens: exclusive breastfeeding, partially hydrolyzed formula, or standard formula with intact protein either exclusively or supplementary to breastfeeding. During the first 6 months of intervention, amongst infants with a family history of atopic dermatitis, 6.5% of partially hydrolyzed formula-fed infants and 22.7% of exclusively breastfed infants (p = 0.007) presented with atopic dermatitis respectively. Growth as assessed by weight increase did not differ between the aforementioned groups. Although cow’s milk protein allergy was not related to the different milk feeding regimens in the whole cohort, when adjusting for high breast milk intake, the respective incident was significantly lower in the infants consuming partially hydrolyzed formula (p 0.001). This data indicates that a specific partially hydrolyzed formula could serve as a more appropriate complement to breast milk compared to a standard intact protein formula in high-risk infants, to reduce the incidence of atopic dermatitis.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-07-2014
DOI: 10.1080/09602011.2014.941295
Abstract: The present study reports test-retest consistency of Virtual Week, a well-known measure of prospective memory (PM) performance. PM is the memory associated with carrying out actions at a specific moment in the future. Patients with neurological disorders as well as healthy older adults often report PM dysfunctions that affect their everyday living. In Experiment 1, 19 younger and 20 older adults undertook the standard version of Virtual Week (version A). Older adults showed lower performance compared to younger participants. However, the discrepancy between groups was eliminated at retest. Experiment 2 was conducted to investigate if remembering of PM content determined the improvement observed in older adults at retest in Experiment 1. To this end we created a parallel version (version B) in which we varied the content of the PM actions. Fifty older adults were assigned to one of the two experimental conditions: Version A at test and version B at retest or vice versa (25 participants in each condition). Results showed no group differences in PM performance between version A and version B moreover, no effect of test-retest was found. The study confirmed that Virtual Week is a reliable measure of PM performance and also provided a new parallel version that can be useful in clinical setting.
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 30-05-2021
Abstract: Finding communication strategies that effectively motivate social distancing continues to be a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-country, preregistered experiment (n = 25,718 from 89 countries) tested hypotheses concerning generalizable positive and negative outcomes of social distancing messages that promoted personal agency and reflective choices (i.e., an autonomy-supportive message) or were restrictive and shaming (i.e. a controlling message) compared to no message at all. Results partially supported experimental hypotheses in that the controlling message increased controlled motivation (a poorly-internalized form of motivation relying on shame, guilt, and fear of social consequences) relative to no message. On the other hand, the autonomy-supportive message lowered feelings of defiance compared to the controlling message, but the controlling message did not differ from receiving no message at all. Unexpectedly, messages did not influence autonomous motivation (a highly-internalized form of motivation relying on one’s core values) or behavioral intentions. Results supported hypothesized associations between people’s existing autonomous and controlled motivations and self-reported behavioral intentions to engage in social distancing: Controlled motivation was associated with more defiance and less long-term behavioral intentions to engage in social distancing, whereas autonomous motivation was associated with less defiance and more short- and long-term intentions to social distance. Overall, this work highlights the potential harm of using shaming and pressuring language in public health communication, with implications for the current and future global health challenges.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2013
DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2013.804036
Abstract: Prospective memory (PM) refers to memory for future intentions and is critically linked to independent living. Previous laboratory research has shown that people who have sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) have difficulties with PM, but few of these have used measures of PM that closely represent the types of PM activities that occur in everyday life. One measure that incorporates more ecologically valid tasks, and which also allows systematic investigation of different PM task parameters (regular, irregular, and event and time based), is Virtual Week. Consequently, in the present study, Virtual Week was administered to participants with TBI (n = 18) and demographically matched controls (n = 18). Consistent with considerable prior literature, the results indicated that people with TBI had significant difficulties executing PM tasks, with these deficits more pronounced for time-based than for event-based tasks. These data point to there being a relatively global PM deficit in people with TBI. Of particular interest was the finding that the magnitude of TBI impairment was consistent across regular and irregular tasks. Because the key distinction between these tasks is that they place low and high demands on retrospective memory, respectively, these data suggest that failures of retrospective memory are not the major cause of TBI-related impairment in PM. The implications of these results for the assessment and rehabilitation of PM impairment in people with TBI are discussed.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-08-2021
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 17-04-2020
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested the effectiveness of reappraisal, an emotion regulation strategy which modifies how one thinks about a situation. Participants from 87 countries/regions (N = 21,644) were randomly assigned to one of two brief reappraisal interventions (reconstrual or repurposing) or one of two control conditions (active or passive). Results revealed that both reappraisal interventions (vs. both control conditions) had consistent effects in reducing negative emotions and increasing positive emotions across different measures. Reconstrual and repurposing had similar effects. Importantly, planned exploratory analyses indicated that reappraisal interventions did not reduce intentions to practice preventive health behaviours. The findings demonstrate the viability of creating scalable, low-cost interventions for use around the world to build resilience during the pandemic and beyond.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-11-2015
DOI: 10.1080/09602011.2015.1103758
Abstract: The present study adapted a computerised version of Virtual Week, a laboratory measure of prospective memory designed to simulate the kinds of prospective memory tasks encountered in daily life. In particular, this study aimed to translate and adapt Virtual Week for an Italian population. We collected data from 198 subjects that were ided into five groups based on age: young-young adults (20-29 years, n = 47), young adults (30-45 years, n = 32), middle-age adults (46-59 years, n = 32), young-old adults (60-69 years, n = 41), and old-old adults (70 years plus, n = 39). Results showed that PM performance was best in younger adults, relatively stable over middle adulthood and then decreased with age, with older adults performing the least accurately, in particular for the time-based condition. Results also demonstrated good reliability estimates across a range of ages and task types. Thus, the adaptation of Virtual Week into Italian appears to be a reliable measure of prospective memory for the Italian population.
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 24-07-2015
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Date: 16-02-2202
DOI: 10.1145/3570731
Abstract: Robotic vision, otherwise known as computer vision for robots, is a critical process for robots to collect and interpret detailed information related to human actions, goals, and preferences, enabling robots to provide more useful services to people. This survey and systematic review presents a comprehensive analysis on robotic vision in human-robot interaction and collaboration (HRI/C) over the past 10 years. From a detailed search of 3,850 articles, systematic extraction and evaluation was used to identify and explore 310 papers in depth. These papers described robots with some level of autonomy using robotic vision for locomotion, manipulation, and/or visual communication to collaborate or interact with people. This article provides an in-depth analysis of current trends, common domains, methods and procedures, technical processes, datasets and models, experimental testing, s le populations, performance metrics, and future challenges. Robotic vision was often used in action and gesture recognition, robot movement in human spaces, object handover and collaborative actions, social communication, and learning from demonstration. Few high-impact and novel techniques from the computer vision field had been translated into HRI/C. Overall, notable advancements have been made on how to develop and deploy robots to assist people.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-01-2017
DOI: 10.1111/BJC.12126
Abstract: Previous studies have shown that traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients have difficulties with prospective memory (PM). Considering that PM is closely linked to independent living it is of primary interest to develop strategies that can improve PM performance in TBI patients. This study employed Virtual Week task as a measure of PM, and we included future event simulation to boost PM performance. Study 1 evaluated the efficacy of the strategy and investigated possible practice effects. Twenty-four healthy participants performed Virtual Week in a no strategy condition, and 24 healthy participants performed it in a mixed condition (no strategy - future event simulation). In Study 2, 18 TBI patients completed the mixed condition of Virtual Week and were compared with the 24 healthy controls who undertook the mixed condition of Virtual Week in Study 1. All participants also completed a neuropsychological evaluation to characterize the groups on level of cognitive functioning. Study 1 showed that participants in the future event simulation condition outperformed participants in the no strategy condition, and these results were not attributable to practice effects. Results of Study 2 showed that TBI patients performed PM tasks less accurately than controls, but that future event simulation can substantially reduce TBI-related deficits in PM performance. The future event simulation strategy also improved the controls' PM performance. These studies showed the value of future event simulation strategy in improving PM performance in healthy participants as well as in TBI patients. TBI patients performed PM tasks less accurately than controls, confirming prospective memory impairment in these patients. Participants in the future event simulation condition out-performed participants in the no strategy condition. Future event simulation can substantially reduce TBI-related deficits in PM performance. Future event simulation strategy also improved the controls' PM performance.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-08-2022
Start Date: 05-2023
End Date: 05-2028
Amount: $4,583,816.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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