The need to have and seek information shapes the context of computing systems. When it comes to health, individual coping influences human behavior. Therefore, the relationship between individual coping and the need to have and seek health information plays a crucial role in the development of digital health systems.

This study aims to examine the relationship between individual coping and the need to have and seek health information among older adults.

Questionnaires and semistructured interviews investigated the health information need (HIN) and health information-seeking behavior (HISB) in relation to the individual coping strategies of 26 older Germans.

The mean age of the interviewed group was 71 years (SD 7). see more Quantitatively, a trend was found for a negative correlation between the avoidance-oriented coping and HIN (r

=-0.37895; bias-corrected and accelerated bootstrap 95% BCa CI -0.730 to 0.092; P=.05). The qualitative results supported this finding. For some participants, information and exchange was part of dealing with their health situation, whereas others wanted to learn as little as possible to avoid a decline in their health status. The older adults acquired, collected, and exchanged paper-based health data to augment clinical information sources and support information exchange with professionals.

Individual coping strategies are relevant for the design of digital health systems. They can support older adults in coping with their health situation, although it remains unclear how systems must be designed for people with an avoidance coping strategy to achieve the same acceptance.

Individual coping strategies are relevant for the design of digital health systems. They can support older adults in coping with their health situation, although it remains unclear how systems must be designed for people with an avoidance coping strategy to achieve the same acceptance.

Web-based research allows cognitive psychologists to collect high-quality data from a diverse pool of participants with fewer resources. However, web-based testing presents unique challenges for researchers and clinicians working with aging populations. Older adults may be less familiar with computer usage than their younger peers, leading to differences in performance when completing web-based tasks in their home versus in the laboratory under the supervision of an experimenter.

This study aimed to use a within-subjects design to compare the performance of healthy older adults on computerized cognitive tasks completed at home and in the laboratory. Familiarity and attitudes surrounding computer use were also examined.

In total, 32 community-dwelling healthy adults aged above 65 years completed computerized versions of the word-color Stroop task, paired associates learning, and verbal and matrix reasoning in 2 testing environments at home (unsupervised) and in the laboratory (supervised). The paper-and-dings have implications for researchers and clinicians wishing to harness web-based testing to collect meaningful data from older adult populations.

This study aims to examine miners’ working conditions and self-rated health status in copper mines in Zambia and to identify the conditions and factors necessary to improve the safety and health of mineworkers.

A cross-sectional study using a self-administered questionnaire was conducted anonymously among copper mineworkers in Zambia in 2015 and 2016. Five targeted mining companies among 33 were introduced by the Mineworkers’ Union of Zambia. Study participants were recruited at the waiting space for underground work, waiting rooms of company clinics/hospitals, and/or at training sessions, which were places permitted by the target companies to perform data collection via convenience sampling. Bivariate analyses (e.g., t tests, Kruskal-Wallis tests, chi-square tests, or Cochran-Armitage tests) and logistic regression analysis were used to analyze differences in demographic characteristics and to compare their working conditions, health conditions, safety management at the workplace, and training opportunite, should be assured, especially for underground mineworkers.

Among mineworkers in Zambia, nonunderground work and not having experienced violence from their boss/manager contributed to increased self-rated health. From the perspective of psychological safety and human security, the management of safety and the working environment, including human resource management and preventing harassment/violence, should be assured, especially for underground mineworkers.

Multiplanar reconstructions of computed tomography (CT) scans can alleviate issues with bone or joint positioning during scan acquisition. The repeatability of these reconstructions is dependent on human operators applying reconstruction criteria, and therefore is subject to error, which could affect measurement reliability for angular or spatial measurements made for orthopaedic surgery. We describe a method for quantifying inter-reconstruction variability numerically and graphically using metadata from the CT header to find vectors describing reconstruction axis alignment. The approach is demonstrated using 3 sets of computed tomographic reconstructions of 24 vulpine femorotibial joints.

Vectors describing axis alignments permitted identification and subsequent analysis of deviations from optimal alignment between reconstruction sets. For the worked example, alignment deviations equivalent to femoral abduction/adduction were nearly twice those for extension/flexion, and simulation of the effects of theslp drive improvements in reconstruction criteria. The methods described here could also be employed for comparing patient positioning between scans and between different scan modalities.

Posterior nutcracker syndrome is defined by the compression of the left renal vein between the abdominal aorta and a lumbar vertebral body. It can beclinically manifest with intermittent hematuria, gonadal or spermatic reflux resulting in varicocele. Ultrasound is the first-line imaging which require more accurate study with contrast-enhanced computed tomography. Management can be conservative in younger patients with mild hematuria due to the high spontaneous remission rate and invasivewith open surgical and endovascular interventions. We describe a very rare case with compression of the left renal vein due to an osteophyte of the spine.

A 62-year-old Caucasic male came to our radiology department for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related liver disease follow-up and mild scrotal pain. The ultrasound examination revealed a compression of the left retro-aortic renal vein in the aorto-vertebral space caused by an osteophyte. Duplex Doppler ultrasound revealed flow congestion in the left renal vein and renal failure; power Doppler ultrasound showed left varicocele.