Mobile-Based Ecological Momentary Intervention for Improving Physical Activity in Adults Without Regular Physical Activity: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
JMIR Form Res. 2025 Dec 4;9:e79360. doi: 10.2196/79360. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: The ecological momentary intervention (EMI) is one of the most promising digital-primarily mobile-interventions to enhance physical activity (PA) and other health behaviors. It is a combination of ecological momentary assessment (EMA), in which participants are prompted to indicate their momentary states and ongoing behaviors in […]
Airborne Secrets at High Altitude: Metagenomic Insights from Planes
Air is often considered an inhospitable environment for microbial life due to its low nutrient availability; nevertheless, it serves as a major pathway for the transport and dispersal of microorganisms. The sources of airborne microbes include natural reservoirs like soil, water, and vegetation, as well as human activities, and their presence is closely linked to […]
Modeling older adults’ continuance intention toward mobile health apps: a dual-path SEM-ANN approach
BMC Public Health. 2025 Dec 2;25(1):4208. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-25323-2. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: With the rapid growth of the aging population, older adults in China face significant challenges in health management, and their continuance intention to use mobile health applications remains lower than that of younger users. METHODS: Based on survey data from older adults, this study employed […]
How to Do Hospital Credentialing?
Introduction Hospital credentialing is a formal procedure used to confirm that healthcare providers like physicians, nurses, and allied clinicians have the required qualifications, training, and licenses to provide safe and effective patient care. This step is important for hospital compliance, quality assurance, and meeting regulatory standards. It makes sure that access to a healthcare facility […]
Plugging In the Human Body: Hope, Hype, and Hidden Risks
In the 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage, a tiny, miniaturised submarine and its crew are injected into an injured astronaut’s body to clear a deadly blood clot in his brain. Technologists believe that extremely miniature machines that are inserted into our bodies will soon bridge human biology and the internet. This concept is known as the Internet […]
WHO Releases First Global Guideline on GLP-1 Therapies for Obesity Treatment
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released its first recommendation on the use of GLP-1 therapies to treat obesity. It marks a significant step in global health efforts to address a chronic and relapsing disease. Global obesity estimates are typically in the hundreds of millions and contributed to 3.7 million deaths in 2024. The global […]
Child Growth Failure Remains a Major Threat: Global Burden Analysis 2000-2023
Child growth failure (CGF) occurs when children do not gain adequate weight or height. It is caused by various factors like socioeconomic, environmental, maternal, healthcare, and nutritional factors. CGF increases the risk of mortality and susceptibility to infectious diseases. It can also lead to long-term health problems related to metabolic and cognitive functions. Global progress […]
Privacy-Preserving Infant Sleep-Wake Detection in NICUs based on Federated Learning: A Multi-center Clinical Study
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2025 Jul;2025:1-4. doi: 10.1109/EMBC58623.2025.11251758. ABSTRACT Clinically, monitoring infants’ sleep-wake cycles provides crucial information of sleep parameters (e.g., sleep duration and frequency), enabling the assessment to their physiological and neuro developmental status. Recently, camera-based infant sleep-wake detection using facial features had been demonstrated in the Neonatal Intensive Care […]
The impact of workplace psychological violence on clinical nurses’ turnover intention: the mediating role of perceived stress
Front Public Health. 2025 Nov 17;13:1672644. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1672644. eCollection 2025. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: The global shortage of nurses has become a significant health emergency, and nurses’ turnover intention is a key influencing factor, serving as an important predictor of actual turnover rates. However, studies integrating workplace psychological violence, perceived stress, and turnover intention in the same […]
Understanding the user experience of a mobile produce market intervention toolkit
Transl Behav Med. 2025 Jan 16;15(1):ibaf083. doi: 10.1093/tbm/ibaf083. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: Veggie Van (VV) is an evidenced-based intervention for improving diet through a mobile market (MM) and is disseminated through an online toolkit. Understanding the user experience of the VV toolkit is crucial to inform its refinement and ensure future implementation success and positive public health […]
