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BACKGROUND: Following a large-scale, pandemic-driven shift to remote consulting in UK general practice in 2020, 2021 saw a partial return to in-person consultations. This occurred in the context of extreme workload pressures because of backlogs, staff shortages, and task shifting. AIM: To study media depictions of remote consultations in UK general practice at a time of system stress. DESIGN AND SETTING: Thematic analysis of national newspaper articles about remote GP consultations from two time periods: 13-26 May 2021, following an NHS England letter, and 14-27 October 2021, following a government-backed directive, both stipulating a return to in-person consulting. METHOD: Articles were identified through, and retrieved from, LexisNexis. A coding system of themes and narrative devices was developed iteratively to inform data analysis. RESULTS: In total, 25 articles reported on the letter and 75 on the directive. Newspaper coverage of remote consulting was strikingly negative. The right-leaning press in particular praised the return to in-person consultations, depicting remote care as creating access barriers and compromising safety. Two newspapers led national campaigns pressuring the government to require GPs to offer in-person consultations. GPs were quoted as reluctant to return to an 'in-person by default' service (as it would further pressurise a system already close to breaking point). CONCLUSION: Remote consultations have become associated in the media with poor practice. Some newspapers were actively leading the 'war' on general practice rather than merely reporting on it. Proactive dialogue between practitioners and the media might help minimise polarisation and improve perceptions around general practice.
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General Practice , Remote Consultation , Humans , Family Practice , Workload , EnglandABSTRACT
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) confirmed cases in the world still occurred more than 1.5 years after the first cases outbreak in Wuhan, China. Education is a main key to deal with this pandemic. The information on how to prevent COVID-19 continues to be informed by direct approach and by using advertisements on television, radio, printed media, and on the internet are being provided to gain the awareness to the people. Consumer neuroscience is necessarily needed and important for understanding consumer behavior. This research paper proposed the techniques to collect the visual data of COVID-19 advertisements by using electroencephalogram (EEG) and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to understand the brain activity. The results of this research can be useful to create a better COVID-19 advertisement that can attract people to memorize the health protocol. © 2021 IEEE.
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In this research, new media literacy skills of prospective Chinese language teachers have been examined and analyzed based on Jenkins' 12 New Media Literacy Skills. The quantitative means, i.e. the investigation model was used in the study. The sample comprises 177 prospective Chinese language teachers was chosen by convenient sampling. According to the findings, it can be said that students' new media literacy skills are at a satisfactory level without significance difference of gender. Skills in which the students got the highest score are respectively trans-media navigation, judgment, play, collective intelligence. When they cannot resolve a problem, they effectively make use of printed media and new media that based on the latest new information technology. Except TV and social media, the more time the students spend on the printed media, digital game, learning APP, course portal or SPOC, the higher level of students' play, appropriation, simulation, distributed cognition, multitasking, collective intelligence, judgment, networking, visualization are. These findings are of great significance for the appropriate integration of information technology into the Chinese language teaching in higher education in the post COVID-19 epidemic era. © 2022 IEEE.