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apps Other research productkeyboard_double_arrow_right Other ORP type 2023 Canada EnglishLow, Gail; Gao, Zhiwei; Gutman, Gloria; Wilson, Donna; França, Alex; Vitorino, Luciano; von Humboldt, Sofia; Allana, Hunaina; Kolskog, Maynard;The COVID-19 pandemic, which greatly affected older people, created a prime opportunity to learn from them about their mentally healthy living strategies—including tips on the most effective strategies for managing anxiety. That was the goal of the RTOERO Foundation-funded project Mentally Healthy Living After Social Distancing—A Study of Older Canadians. The Living Well Research Team, led by Dr. Gail Low, associate professor of nursing at the University of Alberta, surveyed 1,327 Canadians 60 years of age and older in July and August of 2022. This timing is important, as it was when public health restrictions were being lifted across the country. The learnings are captured in a new booklet called Cooking up calm—side by side with recipes for you to add to your menu for mentally healthy living in the later years.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euapps Other research productkeyboard_double_arrow_right Other ORP type 2023 CanadaPublisher:University of Alberta Library Authors: Decker, Shelly;Decker, Shelly;doi: 10.7939/r3-v08d-ab18
This case study explores what Media Richness Theory (Daft and Lengel, 1986) may offer as a theory to explain employee “Zoom fatigue” during COVID-19 and also examines potential fatigue-related gender differences that may affect our understanding of the theory. This project sought experiences from participants in two focus groups, conducted online, using questions based on an MRT framework and an adapted 15-point Zoom Exhaustion & Fatigue Scale. Data was assessed using narrative analysis to determine content themes. This qualitative study revealed that people want media choice to be intentional and align with communications complexity with failure in these areas potentially resulting in fatigue, disengagement and ineffectiveness, which aligns with MRT. The results also indicate that MRT has numerous shortcomings, including failing to account for gender differences, preferences and complex media which can lead to nonverbal overload, all factors that can contribute to employee fatigue when using video conferencing.
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Teaching became harder work during the pandemic. Pre-service teachers watched these changes from the sidelines, which might have impacted their perceptions. We sought to determine what profiles of career fit (demand and return) characterized pre-service teachers and how the resultant profiles differed on commitment to the profession, value of school belongingness, teaching efficacy, and career anxiety. To do so, we administered a survey to 146 pre-service teachers. We used K-means clustering to determine groups based on perceptions of changes to demands and returns during the pandemic. A busy group, neutral group, and valued group emerged. Results of ANOVAs revealed significant differences on Value of Belongingness and Career Anxiety between groups, but no significant differences between groups on Career Commitment or Teaching Efficacy. These results are hopeful from a teacher attrition perspective, because different perceptions of changes to demand and return were not associated with different levels of career commitment.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euapps Other research productkeyboard_double_arrow_right Other ORP type 2023 CanadaPublisher:University of Alberta Library Authors: Elizabeth T.;Elizabeth T.;doi: 10.7939/r3-36wv-kx85
I lived in a rural town in northeastern Alberta for the last five years where access to healthcare has always been challenging and tenuous. Prior to the pandemic, recruiting and retaining quality healthcare professionals in rural areas was already difficult (Matthews & Park, 2007), and while the situation was not ideal, it was not dire. Post-pandemic circumstances, however, saw frequent emergency room closures all across Canada, with hospital beds left empty due to the lack of nursing staff (Kitching, 2022). In the past year, rural residents in the area I live in, Cold Lake, have taken to social media to find doctor availability and emergency room wait times. This information enables them to determine if the emergency room is available and make informed decisions regarding undertaking travel to a hospital where they may have the best chances of being seen by a doctor. The situation in healthcare was made worse by COVID-19 as the loss of qualified healthcare personnel is particularly felt in rural areas (Lowrie, 2022). Based on this experience, the research questions guiding this inquiry are: How are residents in rural communities using social media to help them make informed decisions about doctors and the availability of healthcare services? Why are residents in rural areas using social media to help them make informed decisions regarding healthcare?
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In the recent years, telemedicine has gained significant attention due to its potential to improve access to healthcare services at reduced costs, minimum limitations and accessibility. This study proposes an application named TelecarePLUS, a comprehensive and extensive telemedicine platform that allows healthcare service providers to deliver the best quality care to patients remotely. Especially after COVID-19, where social distancing has been a norm, TelecarePLUS has the capability to provide patients with easy access to healthcare irrespective of their location and physical limitations. It is a one-stop for healthcare which includes features like secure audio/video/text consultations, patient registration, electronic medical records management, prescription management and patient monitoring. The platform is user-friendly and easily accessible, with a primary focus on protecting the privacy of data and maintaining data integrity and confidentiality. With the rise of various diseases and workforce shortages, TelecarePLUS has the potential to revolutionize the digital healthcare industry by providing healthcare services to people who may not have easy access to such privileges, such as the ones living in remote areas, and those with mobility challenges.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted emerging adults’ lives in various aspects of physical and mental health, in part, because of lack of physical activity and face-to-face socialization paired with increased technology and social media time. Given that all of these aspects may be linked to poorer mental health outcomes such as body dissatisfaction and negative body image, it is imperative that we examine how these changes to daily life have influenced individuals’ thinking about their bodies. Therefore, we asked 257 emerging adults (Mage=21.9) what the greatest impact of the pandemic was in regard to their body image. Results from an inductive analysis were divided amongst positive, negative, and neutral experiences. Participants who commented on their positive experience mentioned more time to make healthy meals and exercise, space to think and appreciate their health, and less social comparison than in their pre-pandemic routines. Participants who spoke about their negative experience mentioned constant exposure to mirrors and social media, body checking behaviors, weight gain, and shut downs of supportive services such as gyms, sport, and dermatology/aesthetic businesses. We will utilize these main themes to foster discussion around the importance of bolstering body appreciation and encouraging positive health behaviors in self-care practices.
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Telemedicine has attracted a lot of attention recently because of its promise to increase healthcare access at low costs and with few restrictions. The telemedicine platform TelecarePLUS, which is proposed in this paper, enables healthcare service providers to provide patients with the highest calibre care remotely. TelecarePLUS can give patients quick access to healthcare regardless of their location or physical restrictions, especially in the wake of COVID-19, where social distance has been the norm. With capabilities including secure audio/video/text consultations, patient registration, electronic medical record management, prescription management, and patient monitoring, it is a onestop shop for healthcare. The platform is simple to use and simple to access, with a key focus on safeguarding data privacy and preserving data integrity and confidentiality. TelecarePLUS has the potential to completely transform the digital healthcare sector given the rise of various diseases and labour shortages by bringing healthcare services to those who might not have easy access to them, such as those who live in remote locations or have mobility issues.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euapps Other research product2022 Canada EnglishAuthors: Teng Li; Xiao Meng; Mahdi Tavakoli;Teng Li; Xiao Meng; Mahdi Tavakoli;ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented extreme pressure on the medical system due to the physical distance policy, especially for procedures such as ultrasound (US) imaging, which are usually carried out in person. Tele-operation systems are a promising way to avoid physical human?robot interaction (pHRI). However, the system usually requires another robot on the remote doctor side to provide haptic feedback, which makes it expensive and complex. To reduce the cost and system complexity, in this paper, we present a low-cost, easy-to-use, dual-mode pHRI-teleHRI control system with a custom-designed hybrid admittance-force controller for US imaging. The proposed system requires only a tracking camera rather than a sophisticated robot on the remote side. An audio feedback is designed for replacing haptic feedback on the remote side, and its sufficiency is experimentally verified. The experimental results indicate that the designed hybrid controller can significantly improve the task performance in both modes. Furthermore, the proposed system enables the user to conduct US imaging while complying with the physical distance policy, and allows them to seamlessly switch modes from one to another in an online manner. The novel system can be easily adapted to other medical applications beyond the pandemic, such as tele-healthcare, palpation, and auscultation.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euapps Other research product2022 Canada EnglishZarghanishiraz, Reza; Mojtaba, Zabihi; Little, Jonathan; Komisar, Vivki; Li, Ri;For centuries, people have been fighting airborne transmitting diseases like the common cold virus, influenza or Measles and Tuberculosis as examples of more fatal diseases. Certainly, one of the most catastrophic viruses among the airborne transmitting diseases is Covid-19 which has taken millions of lives in the past three years. Although vaccines have significantly diminished the rate of deaths, periodic emergence of different variants like Delta and Omicron proves that vaccination is not a substitution for the virus-spread controlling methods. Subsequently, it is still necessary to prevent the spread of the virus from the very beginning by using masks and sterilizing the air in indoor spaces. In the present work, a novel method for both trapping and inactivation of the airborne transmitting pathogens is provided. Contaminated air passes through multiple layers of fine woven meshes while the mesh is acting as both a filter to remove the airborne particles and also as a heating element to raise the air temperature. D50 = 0.9 μm which means that 50%-removal efficiency occurs for 0.9 μm particles in this device. According to the exponential relationship of the temperature and the exposure time models, taking the air to high temperatures like 150°C provides 3-log virus load reduction (i.e. 99.9% inactivation of the viruses) in a fraction of a second. Numerical simulations are conducted using ANSYS Fluent software and experimental tests are in progress to validate the numerical data. Part of Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress 2022
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euapps Other research product2022 Canada EnglishAuthors: Wu, Jing; Luo, Hao; Zhong, Lexuan;Wu, Jing; Luo, Hao; Zhong, Lexuan;Adequate ventilation with an effective airflow pattern and the air handling unit equipped with air purifier devices are common contaminant control methods for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. Air cleaner purification performance, ventilation modes, and contaminant transportation need to be further explored to offer the safest indoor environment, especially under and post the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this study developed a pilot-scale HVAC test rig to support various research initiatives. The setup was mainly composed of a square duct with the integration of an air filtration/purification testing system and 3 chambers with the ability to control the ventilation modes. The prequalification tests of the facility, including air leakage, velocity and aerosol uniformity, airflow and flow control verification tests, were conducted to show its feasibility. Results of the filter test were discussed as an example to show potential applications of the test rig. This paper can offer insights for future research about HVAC effectiveness. Part of the Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress 2022.
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apps Other research productkeyboard_double_arrow_right Other ORP type 2023 Canada EnglishLow, Gail; Gao, Zhiwei; Gutman, Gloria; Wilson, Donna; França, Alex; Vitorino, Luciano; von Humboldt, Sofia; Allana, Hunaina; Kolskog, Maynard;The COVID-19 pandemic, which greatly affected older people, created a prime opportunity to learn from them about their mentally healthy living strategies—including tips on the most effective strategies for managing anxiety. That was the goal of the RTOERO Foundation-funded project Mentally Healthy Living After Social Distancing—A Study of Older Canadians. The Living Well Research Team, led by Dr. Gail Low, associate professor of nursing at the University of Alberta, surveyed 1,327 Canadians 60 years of age and older in July and August of 2022. This timing is important, as it was when public health restrictions were being lifted across the country. The learnings are captured in a new booklet called Cooking up calm—side by side with recipes for you to add to your menu for mentally healthy living in the later years.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euapps Other research productkeyboard_double_arrow_right Other ORP type 2023 CanadaPublisher:University of Alberta Library Authors: Decker, Shelly;Decker, Shelly;doi: 10.7939/r3-v08d-ab18
This case study explores what Media Richness Theory (Daft and Lengel, 1986) may offer as a theory to explain employee “Zoom fatigue” during COVID-19 and also examines potential fatigue-related gender differences that may affect our understanding of the theory. This project sought experiences from participants in two focus groups, conducted online, using questions based on an MRT framework and an adapted 15-point Zoom Exhaustion & Fatigue Scale. Data was assessed using narrative analysis to determine content themes. This qualitative study revealed that people want media choice to be intentional and align with communications complexity with failure in these areas potentially resulting in fatigue, disengagement and ineffectiveness, which aligns with MRT. The results also indicate that MRT has numerous shortcomings, including failing to account for gender differences, preferences and complex media which can lead to nonverbal overload, all factors that can contribute to employee fatigue when using video conferencing.
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Teaching became harder work during the pandemic. Pre-service teachers watched these changes from the sidelines, which might have impacted their perceptions. We sought to determine what profiles of career fit (demand and return) characterized pre-service teachers and how the resultant profiles differed on commitment to the profession, value of school belongingness, teaching efficacy, and career anxiety. To do so, we administered a survey to 146 pre-service teachers. We used K-means clustering to determine groups based on perceptions of changes to demands and returns during the pandemic. A busy group, neutral group, and valued group emerged. Results of ANOVAs revealed significant differences on Value of Belongingness and Career Anxiety between groups, but no significant differences between groups on Career Commitment or Teaching Efficacy. These results are hopeful from a teacher attrition perspective, because different perceptions of changes to demand and return were not associated with different levels of career commitment.
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I lived in a rural town in northeastern Alberta for the last five years where access to healthcare has always been challenging and tenuous. Prior to the pandemic, recruiting and retaining quality healthcare professionals in rural areas was already difficult (Matthews & Park, 2007), and while the situation was not ideal, it was not dire. Post-pandemic circumstances, however, saw frequent emergency room closures all across Canada, with hospital beds left empty due to the lack of nursing staff (Kitching, 2022). In the past year, rural residents in the area I live in, Cold Lake, have taken to social media to find doctor availability and emergency room wait times. This information enables them to determine if the emergency room is available and make informed decisions regarding undertaking travel to a hospital where they may have the best chances of being seen by a doctor. The situation in healthcare was made worse by COVID-19 as the loss of qualified healthcare personnel is particularly felt in rural areas (Lowrie, 2022). Based on this experience, the research questions guiding this inquiry are: How are residents in rural communities using social media to help them make informed decisions about doctors and the availability of healthcare services? Why are residents in rural areas using social media to help them make informed decisions regarding healthcare?
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In the recent years, telemedicine has gained significant attention due to its potential to improve access to healthcare services at reduced costs, minimum limitations and accessibility. This study proposes an application named TelecarePLUS, a comprehensive and extensive telemedicine platform that allows healthcare service providers to deliver the best quality care to patients remotely. Especially after COVID-19, where social distancing has been a norm, TelecarePLUS has the capability to provide patients with easy access to healthcare irrespective of their location and physical limitations. It is a one-stop for healthcare which includes features like secure audio/video/text consultations, patient registration, electronic medical records management, prescription management and patient monitoring. The platform is user-friendly and easily accessible, with a primary focus on protecting the privacy of data and maintaining data integrity and confidentiality. With the rise of various diseases and workforce shortages, TelecarePLUS has the potential to revolutionize the digital healthcare industry by providing healthcare services to people who may not have easy access to such privileges, such as the ones living in remote areas, and those with mobility challenges.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted emerging adults’ lives in various aspects of physical and mental health, in part, because of lack of physical activity and face-to-face socialization paired with increased technology and social media time. Given that all of these aspects may be linked to poorer mental health outcomes such as body dissatisfaction and negative body image, it is imperative that we examine how these changes to daily life have influenced individuals’ thinking about their bodies. Therefore, we asked 257 emerging adults (Mage=21.9) what the greatest impact of the pandemic was in regard to their body image. Results from an inductive analysis were divided amongst positive, negative, and neutral experiences. Participants who commented on their positive experience mentioned more time to make healthy meals and exercise, space to think and appreciate their health, and less social comparison than in their pre-pandemic routines. Participants who spoke about their negative experience mentioned constant exposure to mirrors and social media, body checking behaviors, weight gain, and shut downs of supportive services such as gyms, sport, and dermatology/aesthetic businesses. We will utilize these main themes to foster discussion around the importance of bolstering body appreciation and encouraging positive health behaviors in self-care practices.
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Telemedicine has attracted a lot of attention recently because of its promise to increase healthcare access at low costs and with few restrictions. The telemedicine platform TelecarePLUS, which is proposed in this paper, enables healthcare service providers to provide patients with the highest calibre care remotely. TelecarePLUS can give patients quick access to healthcare regardless of their location or physical restrictions, especially in the wake of COVID-19, where social distance has been the norm. With capabilities including secure audio/video/text consultations, patient registration, electronic medical record management, prescription management, and patient monitoring, it is a onestop shop for healthcare. The platform is simple to use and simple to access, with a key focus on safeguarding data privacy and preserving data integrity and confidentiality. TelecarePLUS has the potential to completely transform the digital healthcare sector given the rise of various diseases and labour shortages by bringing healthcare services to those who might not have easy access to them, such as those who live in remote locations or have mobility issues.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euapps Other research product2022 Canada EnglishAuthors: Teng Li; Xiao Meng; Mahdi Tavakoli;Teng Li; Xiao Meng; Mahdi Tavakoli;ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented extreme pressure on the medical system due to the physical distance policy, especially for procedures such as ultrasound (US) imaging, which are usually carried out in person. Tele-operation systems are a promising way to avoid physical human?robot interaction (pHRI). However, the system usually requires another robot on the remote doctor side to provide haptic feedback, which makes it expensive and complex. To reduce the cost and system complexity, in this paper, we present a low-cost, easy-to-use, dual-mode pHRI-teleHRI control system with a custom-designed hybrid admittance-force controller for US imaging. The proposed system requires only a tracking camera rather than a sophisticated robot on the remote side. An audio feedback is designed for replacing haptic feedback on the remote side, and its sufficiency is experimentally verified. The experimental results indicate that the designed hybrid controller can significantly improve the task performance in both modes. Furthermore, the proposed system enables the user to conduct US imaging while complying with the physical distance policy, and allows them to seamlessly switch modes from one to another in an online manner. The novel system can be easily adapted to other medical applications beyond the pandemic, such as tele-healthcare, palpation, and auscultation.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euapps Other research product2022 Canada EnglishZarghanishiraz, Reza; Mojtaba, Zabihi; Little, Jonathan; Komisar, Vivki; Li, Ri;For centuries, people have been fighting airborne transmitting diseases like the common cold virus, influenza or Measles and Tuberculosis as examples of more fatal diseases. Certainly, one of the most catastrophic viruses among the airborne transmitting diseases is Covid-19 which has taken millions of lives in the past three years. Although vaccines have significantly diminished the rate of deaths, periodic emergence of different variants like Delta and Omicron proves that vaccination is not a substitution for the virus-spread controlling methods. Subsequently, it is still necessary to prevent the spread of the virus from the very beginning by using masks and sterilizing the air in indoor spaces. In the present work, a novel method for both trapping and inactivation of the airborne transmitting pathogens is provided. Contaminated air passes through multiple layers of fine woven meshes while the mesh is acting as both a filter to remove the airborne particles and also as a heating element to raise the air temperature. D50 = 0.9 μm which means that 50%-removal efficiency occurs for 0.9 μm particles in this device. According to the exponential relationship of the temperature and the exposure time models, taking the air to high temperatures like 150°C provides 3-log virus load reduction (i.e. 99.9% inactivation of the viruses) in a fraction of a second. Numerical simulations are conducted using ANSYS Fluent software and experimental tests are in progress to validate the numerical data. Part of Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress 2022
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.euapps Other research product2022 Canada EnglishAuthors: Wu, Jing; Luo, Hao; Zhong, Lexuan;Wu, Jing; Luo, Hao; Zhong, Lexuan;Adequate ventilation with an effective airflow pattern and the air handling unit equipped with air purifier devices are common contaminant control methods for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. Air cleaner purification performance, ventilation modes, and contaminant transportation need to be further explored to offer the safest indoor environment, especially under and post the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this study developed a pilot-scale HVAC test rig to support various research initiatives. The setup was mainly composed of a square duct with the integration of an air filtration/purification testing system and 3 chambers with the ability to control the ventilation modes. The prequalification tests of the facility, including air leakage, velocity and aerosol uniformity, airflow and flow control verification tests, were conducted to show its feasibility. Results of the filter test were discussed as an example to show potential applications of the test rig. This paper can offer insights for future research about HVAC effectiveness. Part of the Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress 2022.
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