The Design of Web-Based Ear-Nose-Throat Diagnosis System

2012 ◽  
Vol 490-495 ◽  
pp. 1767-1771
Author(s):  
Yong Hua Xuan ◽  
Wen Tong Liu ◽  
Guo Qing Cao ◽  
Ying Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Web Browser ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Diagnosis System ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Video And Audio ◽  
Audio Files ◽  
Symptoms And Signs ◽  
Diagnostic Condition

In this paper, a web-based remote ENT diagnosis system is proposed. This service model encourages busy modem office workers to frequently understand their health conditions using a convenient manner. The software and hardware components are developed for patients and physicians. At the patient site, the EDH is implemented to acquire patients' symptoms and signs, and these symptoms and signs are recorded as video and audio files using a SDRS program. The SDRS program further transmits hese files and data to the VHS. Physicians may review the EPR through conventional web browser. Finally, tentative diagnostic reports are made for patients’ references. Two case studies are tested to verify the quality of remote diagnosis. Experiment results demonstrated that the proposed remote ENT diagnosis systems successful establish similar ENT diagnostic condition compared to face-to-face diagnoses.

scholarly journals Access to care and worsening eating disorder symptomatology in youth during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Spigel ◽  
Jessica A. Lin ◽  
Carly E. Milliren ◽  
Melissa Freizinger ◽  
Julia A. Vitagliano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Access To Care ◽  
Treatment Quality ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Recovery Study ◽  
And Behaviors

Abstract Background Shelter-in-place orders and social distancing guidelines, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, have limited traditional face-to-face interactions and led to many clinical providers transitioning to the use of videoconferencing platforms. The present study aims to assess how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted adolescents’/young adults’ (AYA) eating disorder (ED)-related care, and how access to, changes in, perceived disruptions to, and quality of care are associated with ED thoughts and behaviors. Methods AYA enrolled in the RECOVERY study, a pre-existing web-based longitudinal study, and completed a COVID-19-specific survey (n = 89). We examined bivariate associations of four markers of care: i) access to care, ii) changes in care, iii) perceived disruption to care, and iv) quality of care. Using multiple logistic regression, we examined the associations of pandemic-related markers of care with changes in ED thoughts and behaviors. We excluded those not engaged in treatment pre-pandemic (n = 16). Results In the remaining 73 participants, reported access to care was high, with 92% of respondents continuing care with at least one ED provider during the pandemic; however, 47% stopped some treatment during the pandemic. Nearly one-third (32%) perceived a disruption in treatment. Quality of care remained high with 67% reporting care to be better than or as good as pre-pandemic. Respondents acknowledged heightened symptomatology: 81% reported increased ED thoughts and 81% reported increased ED behaviors due to COVID-19-related factors. However, none of the markers of care described were significantly associated with ED thoughts or behaviors in regression analyses adjusting for demographic variables and baseline characteristics, except our quality of care measure which was approaching significance (p = 0.07). Conclusions Our findings show the majority of AYA who had care prior to the pandemic continued receiving some element of their multi-disciplinary ED treatment and perceived their care as high quality. None of the markers of care described were statistically associated with increased ED thoughts and behaviors.

An Empirical Investigation of Factors Affecting Web-Based and Face-to-Face Student Satisfactions with Course Website

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Qidong Cao ◽  
Xue Bai ◽  
Thomas E. Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Online Students ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Education Delivery ◽  
Website Features ◽  
Z Transformation

Course Websites have been considered an increasingly important part of online as well as face-to-face education delivery formats. While a vast body of literature has been devoted to comparison of the online and traditional face-to-face courses, little research of student satisfaction with respect to course Websites differentiated between the online and face-to-face students. In order to improve quality of course Websites, the effort was aimed at identifying important predictors of the satisfaction of online students and face-to-face students. This study conducted Fisher’s z transformation and test to compare correlation coefficients of each of Website features and the student satisfaction between two groups of student. Williams’ T-test was performed to compare correlation coefficients, with the student satisfaction, of different Website features within one group, online or face-to-face students. The results showed that online students and face-to-face students had different focuses on Website features. Educational administrators, instructors and system developers might accordingly apply limited resources on improvement of most important features to efficiently increase student satisfaction.

scholarly journals Equalizing Superstars: The Internet and the Democratization of Education

2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (5) ◽  
pp. 523-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daron Acemoglu ◽  
David Laibson ◽  
John A. List
Keyword(s):  
Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Technologies ◽  
Marginal Product ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Face To Face Instruction ◽  
Winner Take All ◽  
Take All

Internet-based educational resources are proliferating rapidly. One concern associated with these (potentially transformative) technological changes is that they will be disequalizing—as many technologies of the last several decades have been—creating superstar teachers and a winner-take-all education system. These important concerns notwithstanding, we contend that a major impact of web-based educational technologies will be the democratization of education: educational resources will be more equally distributed, and lower-skilled teachers will benefit. At the root of our results is the observation that skilled lecturers can only exploit their comparative advantage if other teachers complement those lectures with face-to-face instruction. This complementarity will increase the quantity and quality of face-to-face teaching services, potentially increasing the marginal product and wages of lower-skill teachers.

scholarly journals Access to Care and Worsening Eating Disorder Symptomatology during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Spigel ◽  
Jessica Lin ◽  
Carly E Milliren ◽  
Melissa Freizinger ◽  
Julia A Vitagliano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Access To Care ◽  
Treatment Quality ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Care Access ◽  
And Behaviors

Abstract BackgroundShelter-in-place orders and social distancing guidelines, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, have limited traditional face-to-face interactions and led to many clinical providers transitioning to the use of videoconferencing platforms. The present study aims to assess how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted adolescents’/young adults’ (AYA) eating disorder (ED)-related care, and how access to, changes in, perceived disruptions to, and quality of care are associated with ED thoughts and behaviors. MethodsAYA enrolled in the RECOVERY study, a pre-existing web-based longitudinal study, completed a COVID-19-specific survey (n=89). We examined bivariate associations of four markers of care: access to and changes in care as well as perceived disruption to and quality of care. Using multiple logistic regression, we examined the associations of our pandemic-related markers of care with changes in ED thoughts and behaviors. We excluded those not engaged in treatment pre-pandemic (n=16). ResultsIn the remaining 73 participants, reported access to care was high, with 92% of respondents continuing to see at least one ED provider during the pandemic; however, 47% stopped some treatment during the pandemic. Nearly one-third (32%) perceived a disruption in treatment. Quality of care remained high with 67% reporting care to be better than or as good as pre-pandemic. Respondents acknowledged heightened symptomatology: 81% reported increased ED thoughts and 81% reported increased ED behaviors due to COVID-19-related factors. However, none of the markers of care described were significantly associated with ED thoughts or behaviors in regression analyses adjusting for demographic variables and baseline characteristics, except our quality of care measure which was approaching significance (p=0.07). ConclusionsOur findings show the majority of AYA who had care prior to the pandemic are still receiving some element of their multi-disciplinary ED treatment and perceive their care as high quality. Although none of the markers of care described were statistically associated with increased ED thoughts and behaviors, our results may indicate that continued access to care may be protective against increased ED behaviors and patients who perceive their quality of care as worse than usual might be more likely to have intrusive ED thoughts.

scholarly journals Developing a web-based application for school councelling and guidance during COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 110-117
Author(s):  
Lulud Oktaviani ◽  
Yusra Fernando ◽  
Randi Romadhoni ◽  
Nia Noviana
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Guidance System ◽  
Physical Interaction ◽  
Application System ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Psychological Consultation ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Educational Aspect

Covid-19 pandemic that hit Indonesia since 2020 has made changes in the educational aspect where teachers must be able to adapt to the use of technology and minimize physical interaction. As a result, this also affects students’ well-being where some new things emerged such as learning process that was initially conducted face-to-face, currently shifted into distance learning. Subsequently, students need more psychological guidance from the school especially if the counselling and guidance can be accessed online to maintain students’ conditions and the quality of the learning itself. Therefore, this service team aims to improve the counseling guidance system of SMK Amal Bakti Jati Mulyo of South Lampung during COVID-19 pandemic by developing a website-based counseling application. The methods used in this activity were lecture and questionnaires, where lecture is for application socialization and questionnaires were to see the participants’ attitude regarding to the use of the website-based counselling and guidance application. This service has contributed that by developing this application system, students could do psychological consultation during covid-19 pandemic safety without having physical interaction.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of a nurse-delivered (FOCUS+) and a web-based (iFOCUS) psychoeducational intervention for people with advanced cancer and their family caregivers (DIAdIC): study protocol for an international randomized controlled trial

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Orphé Matthys ◽  
Aline De Vleminck ◽  
Sigrid Dierickx ◽  
Luc Deliens ◽  
Vincent Van Goethem ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Advanced Cancer ◽  
Family Caregiver ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Focus Intervention

Abstract Background Worldwide, millions of people with advanced cancer and their family caregivers are experiencing physical and psychological distress. Psychosocial support and education can reduce distress and prevent avoidable healthcare resource use. To date, we lack knowledge from large-scale studies on which interventions generate positive outcomes for people with cancer and their informal caregivers’ quality of life. This protocol describes the DIAdIC study that will evaluate the effectiveness of two psychosocial and educational interventions aimed at improving patient-family caregiver dyads’ emotional functioning and self-efficacy. Methods We will conduct an international multicenter three-arm randomized controlled trial in Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. In each country, 156 dyads (936 in total) of people with advanced cancer and their family caregiver will be randomized to one of the study arms: 1) a nurse-led face-to-face intervention (FOCUS+), 2) a web-based intervention (iFOCUS) or 3) a control group (care as usual). The two interventions offer tailored psychoeducational support for patient-family caregiver dyads. The nurse-led face-to-face intervention consists of two home visits and one online video session and the web-based intervention is completed independently by the patient-family caregiver dyad in four online sessions. The interventions are based on the FOCUS intervention, developed in the USA, that addresses five core components: family involvement, optimistic outlook, coping effectiveness, uncertainty reduction, and symptom management. The FOCUS intervention will be adapted to the European context. The primary outcomes are emotional functioning and self-efficacy of the patient and the family caregiver, respectively. The secondary outcomes are quality of life, benefits of illness, coping, dyadic communication, and ways of giving support of the patient and family caregiver. Discussion DIAdIC aims to develop cost-effective interventions that integrate principles of early palliative care into standard care. The cross-country setup in six European countries allows for comparison of effectiveness of the interventions in different healthcare systems across Europe. By focusing on empowerment of the person with cancer and their family caregiver, the results of this RCT can contribute to the search for cost-effective novel interventions that can relieve constraints on professional healthcare. Trial registration Registration on ClinicalTrials.gov on 12/11/2020, identifier NCT04626349. Date and version identifier 20211209_DIAdIC_Protocol_Article.

Using Course Maps for Easy Classroom to Computer Transition

2011 ◽  
pp. 2226-2230
Author(s):  
Stephanie J. Etter ◽  
Lisa T. Byrnes
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Online Course ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Learning Programs ◽  
History Of

Online learning is the fastest growing segment in the educational marketplace (Conhaim, 2003). As the number of online courses increases and distance learning programs grow in popularity, questions of quality and comparability of online courses with traditional methods naturally arise (Schulman & Sims, 1999). While online learning is the fastest growing educational segment, partly in thanks to on-campus students who choose to take courses online, there are still debates about not only the quality of the course content, but the quality of the technology used as well. According to Bowman (2003), in “the history of higher education, online classes are relatively new, and it is yet to be determined how to take full advantage of the technology” (p. 73). Traditional face-to-face courses, which may have been proven successful in terms of evaluations and outcomes assessments, are increasingly being converted to online courses. A study by Smith, Ferguson, and Caris (2000) concluded: “Contrary to intuition, current Web-based online college courses are not an alienating, mass-produced product. They are a laborintensive, highly text-based, intellectually challenging forum which elicits deeper thinking on the part of the students” (p. 67). Converting a traditional classroom course that is intellectually challenging and that elicits deeper thinking into an online course that can do the same can be a harrowing task. The process of converting a face-to-face course into an online course without compromising the course’s integrity and quality is a difficult burden to overcome. The burden of the conversion process can be eased, however, through the use of course maps.

scholarly journals A CRITICAL REVIEW OF PAIN MANAGEMENT TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR FAMILY CAREGIVERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S717-S717
Author(s):  
Nai-Ching Chi ◽  
Emelia Barani ◽  
Ying-Kai Fu
Keyword(s):  
Pain Management ◽  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Management Education ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Management Interventions ◽  
Future Program

Abstract Many American family caregivers (FCs) manage hospice and palliative patients’ pain at home. However, FCs encounter many barriers to pain management due to inadequate training. Although some studies have designed pain management training programs for caregivers, the content and durations vary greatly. Thus, there is a lack of consistent recommendation on how to educate caregivers on pain management. The purpose of this study is to critically evaluate existing training programs to inform clinical practice and future program design. A literature review was conducted to search available articles published before June 2018 in databases including PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and Scopus. Search strategies used index and keyword methods. The inclusion criteria were peer-reviewed, research studies published in English that evaluated a pain management education or training for family caregivers. Twenty-seven studied were included. All studies improved either patients’ outcomes (e.g. pain intensity, hospital visits) or caregivers’ outcomes (e.g. knowledge, quality of life). Most studies (85%) had research teams provide caregivers with pain management education via multiple face-to-face training sessions and written booklet, while some studies (15%) had practicing nurses used videophones, web-based platforms, and telehealth to enhance the collaboration of care and pain management with caregivers. Providing adequate pain management training can improve patients’ and caregivers’ outcomes. However, in-person training programs are not practical for busy and overwhelmed caregivers. Researcher-delivered training sessions are not clinically adoptable. Future studies should develop pain management interventions that allow nurses to coach caregivers during routine visits and enhance their communication and collaboration with caregivers.

scholarly journals Asynchronous Peer Teaching Using Student-Created Multimodal Materials

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 286-291
Author(s):  
John Blake ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Peer Teaching ◽  
Quality Requirements ◽  
Japanese Learners Of English ◽  
Incremental Improvement ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Video And Audio ◽  
Audio Files ◽  
Japanese Learners ◽  
The University

This paper reports on asynchronous peer teaching in which learners create multimodal explanations or tutorials for future cohorts. Japanese learners of English work individually or in teams to produce video and audio explanations. Multimodal explanations that meet the quality requirements are uploaded to the respective course websites housed on the university server. The aim is that student audio-visual developers learn during the creation process and student users learn from the multimodal resources developed. Each year a new cohort of students makes a new set of explanations. The mean quality of the multimodal explanations increases annually as the less useful or less popular video and audio files are replaced. This creates a continuous cycle of incremental improvement.

scholarly journals The Use of E-Learning Using Web-Based Management Introduction In Pamulang University

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ni’mah Ni’mah ◽  
Khaerudin Khaerudin ◽  
Dwi Kusumawardani
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Introductory Courses ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
E Learning ◽  
System Improvement ◽  
The University

Web-based e-learning in management introductory courses at Pamulang University, this study discusses studying e-learning in subjects at Pamulang University specifically on management introductory courses. This research was conducted at Pamulang University. This research was conducted in March 2020 until July 2020. The research method uses qualitative methods with primary data or secondary data. The results of this study indicate that the use of e-learning at Pamulang University has provided benefits for system improvement and for improving the quality of comfort. And e-learning learning has been implemented well by Pamulang University or more focused on management study programs. Because e-learning has become a mandatory part, Pamulang University continues to improve so that its utilization continues to improve. At least some of the things that are unique from this research are the University of Pamulang using e-learning as a whole. All subjects must be scheduled to represent lectures conducted face-to-face. This supports the un pam students to have a closeness with technology.

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