Recent Trends in Remote Healthcare Applications and Futuristic Approach

Remote healthcare is a well-accepted telemedicine service that renders efficient and reliable healthcare to patients suffering from chronic diseases, neurological disorders, diabetes, osteoporosis, sensory organs, and other ailments. Artificial intelligence, wireless communication, sensors, organic polymers, and wearables enable affordable, non-invasive healthcare to patients in all age groups. Telehealth services and telemedicine are beneficial to people residing in remote locations or patients with limited mobility, rehabilitation treatment, and post-operative recovery. Remote healthcare applications and services proved to be significant during the COVID-19 pandemic for both patients and doctors. This study presents a detailed study of the use of artificial intelligence and the internet of things in applications of remote healthcare in many domains of health, along with recent patents. This research also presents network diagrams of documents from the Scopus database using the tool VOSViewer. The paper highlights gap which can be undertaken by future researchers. © 2023 IEEE.

Creating hospitable service systems for refugees during a pandemic: Leveraging resources for service inclusion

Purpose: The overarching goal of this paper is to increase awareness among researchers and practitioners that refugees are disproportionally impacted by COVID-19, which increases their suffering. Second, it extends a recently introduced transformative refugee service experience framework by integrating and conceptualizing refugees' resource and service inclusion during a pandemic. Third, it explores lessons learned and implications from the COVID-19 pandemic for the future of service research and practice. Design/methodology/approach: This study synthesizes approaches on refugees, resources and transformative service research to develop an extended framework for addressing one of society's pressing issues during and after pandemics. Findings: Recognizing refugees as providing resources rather than just needing or depleting resources can enable more inclusion. It facilitates refugees' integration into society by drawing on their skills and knowledge. This requires hospitable refugee service systems that enable service inclusion and opportunities for refugee resource integration.Research limitations/implications: This article focuses on one vulnerable group in society. However, the extended framework presented warrants broader application to other contexts, such as subsistence marketplaces. Practical implications: Managers of service businesses and public policymakers should create more inclusive and hospitable service systems for refugees. This may result in redesigning services, changing consumer behavior and reformulating public policy.Social implicationsBetter inclusion and integration of refugees and their resources should increase their individual well-being, reduce social issues in society, increase overall societal well-being and productivity. Originality/value: This article presents a novel extended framework for service scholars and service providers to increase resource and service inclusion of refugees in a disaster context. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

The link between fear about COVID-19 and insomnia: mediated by economic concerns and psychological distress, moderated by mindfulness

This paper adds to extant research by examining the relationship between employees' fear of coronavirus disease 2019 and their suffering from insomnia. It specifically proposes mediating roles of employees' economic concerns and psychological distress and a moderating role of mindfulness in this process. The research hypotheses are tested with survey data collected through two studies among Pakistani-based professionals: 316 in study 1 and 421 in study 2. The results pinpoint a salient risk for employees who experience fear during a pandemic crisis, in that the associated economic and psychological hardships make the situation worse by undermining their sleep quality, which eventually could diminish the quality of their lives even further. It also reveals how organizations can mitigate this risk if employees can leverage pertinent personal resources, such as mindfulness.

Implications of COVID-19 Pandemic on Ovarian Cancer Mortality

Ovarian cancers are the most prevalent cancers with the highest mortality among women. Most women with advanced stages require multimodal therapy, including surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. The advent of the coronavirus disease in the 2019 has affected the entire system of healthcare delivery in majority of patients suffering from cancer. During these tough times, patients suffering from ovarian cancer face mental trauma, which involves delays in diagnosis and prognosis, surgeries, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. Instead of in-person visits, tele consultations were performed with a fear of being infected with the pandemic. This review, have prioritized the repercussions of COVID-19 on patients with ovarian cancer, Monitoring of CA125 trend in patients of ovarian cancer with COVID-19 and how COVID-19 affects the rate of mortality in cancer patients. © 2023 Bharati Vidyapeeth, New Delhi.

Narratives and mental health in the Covid-19 Pandemic.

The rise in the flow of narratives is directly associated with technological advances in communication. In pandemic times, the narratives have produced profound consequences in many dimensions of human life, such as individuals' belief systems. Narratives operate as a background of the self's functioning and present substantial importance to personality development. On the other side, narratives can influence the functioning of the self's disorders. It occurs when narratives do not respect a hierarchical belief system in the individuals. The disrespect to the central beliefs that operate in the individuals' personalities often fosters a psychosomatic process that distances them from authentic contact with themselves. Consequently, it enhances mental suffering and psychic illness. The current paper aimed to discuss some intersections between narratives and states of psychic suffering.

Encountering suffering in digital care: a qualitative study of providers' experiences in telemental health care.

BACKGROUND: Encountering patients who are suffering is common in health care, and particularly when providing mental health care. Telehealth technologies are increasingly used to provide mental health care, yet little is known about the experiences of providers when encountering patients who are suffering within remote care. The present study explored health care providers' lived experiences of encountering patient suffering during telemental health care. METHODS: A qualitative phenomenological approach was used to uncover participants' experiences. In-depth interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of physicians, psychologists, and therapists who used telemental health in varied clinical practices in Sweden. Data were analyzed using descriptive phenomenology. RESULTS: Telehealth care with patients who were suffering was experienced by providers as loose connections, both literally in compromised functioning of the technology and figuratively in a compromised ability connecting emotionally with patients. Providers' lived experiences were explicated into the following aspects: insecurity in digital practice, inaccessibility of the armamentarium, and conviction in the value of telehealth care. Interpersonal connection between patient and provider is necessary. Worry and guilt arose for providers with fears that technology would not work, patient status was deteriorated, or the care needed could not be delivered. Providers overcame barriers in telehealth encounters, and expressed they perceived that patients appreciated the care received, and through it found relief. CONCLUSIONS: This study brings an understanding of experiences in providing telemental care for patients who are suffering. Providers experience challenges in connecting with patients, and in accessing tools needed to enable reaching the goals of the caring encounter. Efforts to ensure functioning of technology, comfort with its use, and accessibility of tools might be some accommodations to support providers for successful and rewarding telehealth care encounters.

Thinking the Time Experience of Confinement with Levinas and Maldiney

During the last years our daily life has been affected by a long experience of confinement, due to COVID-19. But is the experience of confinement really new? The main aim of this text is to examine the link between temporality and confinement, in light of the experiences of suffering and melancholic depression described by Levinas and Maldiney. Thus, we will show that both experiences involve the loss of the transcendence's time that invites to ask if the existential confinement limits its meaning in its purely spatial definition.

Critical Care Providers' Moral Distress: Frequency, Burden, and Potential Resources.

BACKGROUND: Critical Care Providers (CCPs) experience situations that challenge their ethics and professional standards and may entail moral distress (MD). AIM: To analyze MD perceived by CCPs in intensive care units (ICUs) or emergency departments (EDs) and further clarify whether CCPs who rely on spiritual resources differ in their perception of MD from those who do not utilize these resources. METHODS: A cross-sectional anonymous survey was administered using a modified version of the German language version of the Moral Distress Scale (MDS) with 2 × 12 items to assess the frequency and the respective perceived burden of specific situations by applying a 5-point Likert scale. Explorative factor analysis was performed and the sub-constructs of the respective items regarding MD frequency and burden were identified. Job burden and professional satisfaction were measured using visual analogue scales (VAS) and a four-point Likert scale, respectively. The 15-item SpREUK questionnaire was applied to measure spiritual attitudes and behaviours and to differentiate between religious and spiritual persons. Data from 385 German-speaking CCPs were included (55% physicians, 45% nurses). RESULTS: Conflict situations are similar for physicians and nurses although they are perceived as more burdensome by nurses. Among physicians, the MDS factor Looking away/Resignation scores highest for assistant physician residents, whereas distress caused by looking away is more often perceived by specialist physicians without a managerial position. Work satisfaction is inversely associated with MD and emotional exhaustion is positively associated with it. Participants' spirituality is marginally associated with MD. The best predictors of both MD frequency and burden are emotional exhaustion with further influences of work satisfaction, being a nurse, and being a non-believer on the frequency of MD perception. Being a nurse, participants' experience in ICU/ED, and being of the male gender are further predictors of MD burden. CONCLUSIONS: MD is experienced differently by different groups of CCPs depending on their place in the hierarchy of responsibility. As MD perception is best predicted by emotional exhaustion, these situations should be avoided. Although some CCPs may rely on spiritual resources, all need individual and team support to cope with MD.

The unequal others: mediation of distant COVID-19 suffering in Chinese television news

This study explores how the Chinese media have legitimated the Chinese government's anti-COVID policy at home by constructing the spectatorship of foreign countries' suffering during the pandemic. Using the Oriental News of Shanghai Media Group (SMG), a leader in Chinese provincial media, as a case study, the present study reveals that the core countries within the world system have been reported on more often than the semi-peripheral and peripheral countries. News about core countries also precedes news about non-core countries during the parts of broadcasts that concern the global COVID-19 pandemic. China's specific geopolitical and national political contexts have significantly influenced the mediation of COVID-19 suffering in various countries. While the US is represented as experiencing multiple forms of "chaos” during the pandemic, African countries are represented as "allied others” or "weak others.” News about India, a country with national conditions similar to those of China, reminds Chinese spectators that the Chinese government's strict controls are correct and effective. The mediation of other countries' sufferings has produced various degrees of emotional involvement on the part of the Chinese public. © 2023 The Centre for Chinese Media and Comparative Communication Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Social Stigma and Suffering: Perceptions, Practices and Impacts around COVID-19 in Bangladesh

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has become a global concern due to the unprecedented catastrophe it has brought about. Social stigma around COVID-19 has become another concern in many areas. This study employs a qualitative approach in analyzing and discussing cultural perceptions and experiences of social stigma and suffering around COVID-19 in Bangladesh. This paper argues that socio-cultural and religious practices and various new metaphors in day-to-day linguistic usage around COVID-19 created and shaped social stigma with social suffering for the suspected, infected, associated, and even recovered individuals and groups. The findings show that stigmatization around COVID-19 takes place due to fear of infection, perceived loss of social status, discrimination in social life, and exclusion from standard health services, all of which need to be addressed in health and related policies in the future. © OpenEditions Journals. All Rights Reserved.

Huddled masses: The shock of Hart Island, New York

When drone footage emerged of New York City's COVID-19 casualties being buried by inmates in trenches on Hart Island, the images became a key symbol for the pandemic: the suddenly soaring death toll, authorities' struggle to deal with overwhelming mortality and widespread fear of anonymous, isolated death. The images shocked New Yorkers, most of whom were unaware of Hart Island, though its cemetery operations are largely unchanged since it opened over 150 years ago, and about one million New Yorkers are buried there. How does Hart Island slip in and out of public knowledge for New Yorkers in a cycle of remembering and forgetting – and why is its rediscovery shocking? Perhaps the pandemic, understood as a spectacular event, reveals what has been there, though unrecognised, all along.

Unbearable suffering while working as a nurse during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative descriptive study.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in negative consequences for nurse well-being, patient care delivery and outcomes, and organizational outcomes. Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of nurses working during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States. Design: This study used a qualitative descriptive design. Settings: The setting for this study was a national sample of nurses working during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States over a period of 18 months. Participants: Convenience and snowball sampling were used to recruit 81 nurses via social media and both national and state listservs. Methods: Using a single question prompt, voicemail and emails were used for nurses to share their experiences anonymously working as a nurse during the COVID-19 pandemic. Voicemails were transcribed and each transcript was analyzed using content analysis with both deductive and inductive coding. Results: The overarching theme identified was Unbearable Suffering. Three additional themes were identified: 1) Facilitators to Nursing Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2) Barriers to Nursing Practice During the COVID-19 pandemic, with the sub-themes of Barriers Within the Work Environment, Suboptimal Care Delivery, and Negative Consequences for the Nurses; and lastly, 3) the Transitionary Nature of the Pandemic.. Conclusions: The primary finding of this study was that nurses experienced and witnessed unbearable suffering while working during the COVID-19 pandemic that was transitionary in nature. Future research should consider the long-term impacts of this unbearable suffering on nurses. Intervention research should be considered to support nurses who have worked during the COVID-19 pandemic, and mitigate the potential long-term effects. Tweetable abstract: A study on nurses experiences during the pandemic reveals their unbearable suffering. Read here about the reasons nurses are leaving.

COVID-19 related suffering: patients and geriatricians on an equal footing.

This article describes the case of two elderly patients suffering from COVID-19 and admitted to a geriatric ward. It refers to the physical but, above all, psychological suffering that affects both the patients and their geriatricians at their bedside. Based on international literature, we analyze the severity of COVID-19 consequences on mental health. Moreover, we also add recommendations to be implemented so as to limit the impact of this long-term suffering.Copyright © 2021, Louvain Medical asbl. All rights reserved.

Loss and grief: Personal stories of doctors and other healthcare professionals

This collection of personal narratives is just that: stories intended to chronicle the journeys of a small number of health clinicians and other professionals who have been struck by personal illness and/or loss. What these stories do not assume is that there are answers to the universal experiences of loss and grief, courage, and survival implicit in the telling. While the past is gone, the meaning of it, however, is forever in flux, forever being worked and reworked in our conscious and unconscious minds. Each memory is a redoing of what it represents and brings forth within our sense of ourselves and in our relationships with one another. Grief challenges us physically, emotionally, and psychologically to recast the loss again and again. And, in recasting the past and the passage of time, refashioning memory to meet the needs of the moment in which the lost object and our response to it either helps us to move forward in our life or keeps us stuck, unable to engage with a future that requires acceptance of giving up the life lived before. The COVID pandemic further highlighted the internalization of expectations. Drilled into us in training is the "prime directive", the ethical responsibility of patient care and that one should deal with personal things on one's one time. The stories written in this collection were a draft perhaps unending versions telling of the experience. Some stories were written in one setting, others over many weeks or months as the writer lost and regained footing along the tale's trail. The shame, the sadness and weeping, the anger and guilt, and the shame of feeling relief of the pain and suffering for ourselves or those we love(d) and the "weakness" of not being able to manage it all echo through these stories. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Women Suffering from Multiple Sources of Oppression in Upper Egypt: A Case Study of Intersectional Targeting and Integrated Development Interventions as the Way Out

Scholars in the field of gender and development are strong advocates of the concept of "intersectionality," first coined by Crenshaw in 1989, as a way of thinking about how marginalized groups may be subjected to oppression from various sources. The main purpose of this research is to make a case for how intersectional targeting, together with integrated development interventions, can be useful in helping vulnerable individuals, specifically women, suffering from multiple sources of poverty and oppression. A case study, coupled with in-depth field interviews, was the method employed for assessing the application of an intersectional lens by a nonprofit development organization (ENID) that targets vulnerable poor, illiterate, and unemployed women living in marginalized rural communities in South Egypt and employs integrated development interventions to get them out of poverty. Working on upgrading basic services, promoting small and micro enterprises, fostering sustainable agricultural development, initiating a program for knowledge dissemination and policy advocacy were some of the features of the integrated development approach utilized by ENID. The research findings indicated that ENID activities may have had a positive impact on reducing poverty and empowering women in the rural villages of South Egypt. Many challenges were faced related to government bureaucracy, restrictive cultural norms, and the COVID-19 pandemic. However, on the positive side, poverty was reported to have declined by 14.5% in absolute terms from 2015-2018 in Qena governorate where ENID works. More investments are being directed to the region, and the women beneficiaries attest to lifechanging experiences, enhanced self-confidence, and empowerment.

EU free movement of people: fully recovered or suffering from long COVID?

The free movement of people (FMP) was one of the first victims of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. Calls for better coordination often remained unheard in the initial phase of hectic border closures and mostly resulted in soft EU recommendations. Nevertheless, most restrictions on the FMP were lifted after summer 2020 and could be largely avoided in later waves of the pandemic. We argue that the resilience of the FMP, a fundamental principle of the EU, ultimately depends on policies – borders, welfare, and health – that are still national competence and partly implemented at the regional level. We explain the resilience of the FMP and the observed variation between different border regions by the strength of pre-existing coordinative transgovernmental networks. Our analysis is based on a comparative case study of different German border regions and draws on quantitative data concerning cross-border workers and qualitative interviews with policy-makers and stakeholders. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Journal of European Public Policy is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)

Modeling for understanding of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) spread and design of an isolation room in a hospital

We have modeled the transmission of coronavirus 2019 in the isolation room of a patient suffering from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London. An adaptive mesh computational fluid dynamics model was used for simulation of three-dimensional spatial distribution of SARS-CoV-2 in the room. The modeling set-up is based on data collected in the room during the patient stay. Many numerical experiments have been carried out to provide an optimal design layout of the overall isolation room. Our focus has been on (1) the location of the air extractor and filtration rates, (2) the bed location of the patient, and (3) consideration of the health and safety of the staff working in the area. © 2023 Author(s).

Extenics in Face Recognition

Face recognition is facing a new challenge, which was resulted from the contradiction between face recognition and the necessity to wear masks during the COVID-19. This article introduces extenics in face recognition (EFR) for solving the contradiction and constructs a facial model for psychology analysis to help the patients suffering from mental disorders. Moreover, a 2D-3D scene transformation model is integrated with EFR to fuse the virtual scene and real scene. Perspective fusions of EFR with EEG are also explained utilizing the five-layer intelligence theory for fighting against the COVID-19. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

A study of spontaneous narrative formation: coronavirus and narratives of doom

Is the frequently heard and seemingly innocent statement that the coronavirus was 'sent by Mother Nature to teach us a lesson,' evidence of an unconscious narrative that is driven by the fear and grief engendered by the pandemic? The idiom 'teach us a lesson' suggests that Mother Earth is angry with us and further, that the archetype of divine punishment – apocalypse – has been activated in the collective unconscious. This may be a dangerous time for the world psyche because an archetype, as objective pattern as well as a 'dynamic living agency,' can influence our emotions and behaviors. History has shown the devastation a powerfully activated negative archetype can engender. Can analytical psychology contribute to easing psychological suffering caused by the irrational fear of the end of the world? We suggest C.G Jung's 'transcendent function' can be invoked to spontaneously produce a new unifying, and therefore healing symbol. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Innovation: The European Journal of Social Sciences is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Cultural differences in the construal of suffering and the COVID-19 pandemic

The present research examines how suffering is construed across cultures. Study 1 (N1 = 264;N2 = 745) asked participants to provide free associations for suffering. Chinese individuals generated more positive associations than did Euro-Canadians. Study 2 (N = 522) had participants create a hypothetical potion of suffering to represent what people would experience while suffering. Chinese participants added more positive ingredients and fewer negative ingredients than Euro-Canadians did. How would cultural differences in the construal of suffering matter in a real-life negative situation? Study 3 (N = 608) showed that Chinese participants generated a greater proportion of potential positive outcomes for the COVID-19 outbreak and reported more positive affect during the pandemic than did Euro-Canadians. Thus, Chinese construe suffering more positively than Euro-Canadians. These findings are consistent with previous research on cultural differences in dialectical thinking and lay theory of change and have implications for coping and resilience. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)