Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Web-based Intervention for Patients with Breast Cancer

Özkan, Birgül; Eskiyurt, Reyhan; Öztaş, Dilek

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“…Against this background, the challenges that INCan currently faces are many, mostly due to the high demand for medical and hospital care. For this reason, the institution selected its Department of Mammary Tumors as the place to identify a problem situation that was the basis for designing a challenge that could be solved using information technologies [11].…”

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Data Analytics and Cloud Computing vs Breast Cancer: Learning That Helps

Mónica¹,

Sergio²,

Ramona³

et al. 2020

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This article presents the deployment of the Semester i (i-Sem) "Data Analytics and Cloud Computing vs Breast Cancer: learning that helps" (DA&CCvsBC). i-Sem is one of the elements of the Tec21 educational model of The Monterrey Tech. DA&CCvsBC is a learning environment where engineering students developed competences, by resolving an inspiring challenge designed from a problem posed by a training partner (TP). The challenge consisted in designing and implementing computer applications to support the follow-up of patients with breast cancer before and during their treatment. The project started with the selection of a list of competences to be developed in the students. From that list and based on a real problem situation posed by two training partners (TPs), a challenge was designed. The challenge was presented to students interested in participating and 11 students were selected. So, in 18 weeks, the students, accompanied by professors, built solution proposals for the challenge. During the construction process, the students developed the established competences. The project had a vision: "learning that helps". The intended outcomes were: A report that evidenced the development of students' competences, and two computer applications for monitoring the treatment of patients with breast cancer.

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Data Analytics and Cloud Computing vs Breast Cancer: Learning That Helps

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Ramona³

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COVID 19 and Mental Health Experience in Kenya: Reflections for Change (Preprint)

Islam¹

2021

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BACKGROUND Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of vulnerable groups in Kenya and other developing ‎countries are facing a double tragedy. The direct threat from SARS-CoV-2 and indirect ‎consequences of government responses are creating new challenges, as well as worsening ‎existing socio-economic public health aspects. One of the vulnerable groups are people with ‎existing and newly acquired mental health problems. This policy brief seeks to examine the ‎relationship between COVID-19 and mental health in Kenya. It finds that COVID-19 has an ‎overreaching impact on a person’s mental health and if the government does not offer urgent and ‎well thought out measures to cushion these patients from the negative experiences of the ‎pandemic, then the country could find itself with a bigger burden during and after COVID-19 ‎crisis. ‎ OBJECTIVE This policy brief seeks to examine the relationship between COVID-19 and mental health in ‎Kenya. It finds that COVID-19 has an overreaching impact on a person’s mental health and if the ‎government does not offer urgent and well thought out measures to cushion these patients from ‎the negative experiences of the pandemic, then the country could find itself with a bigger burden ‎during and after COVID-19 crisis. ‎ METHODS A secondary descriptive method has been applied for this policy brief RESULTS The paper seeks to raise concern on the low attention mental health has received during the ‎pandemic. ‎Collaborating with regional and international actors to improve research in mental health as ‎well as sensitization programs to dilute the stigma currently existing can also go a long way.‎ CONCLUSIONS In conclusion, the paper seeks to raise concern on the low attention mental health has received ‎during the pandemic. The government of Kenya has developed measures to try and contain the ‎spread of the virus in the country, but its strategies have failed to address some of the worst-hit groups such as individuals with mental health disorders. We recommend that the government ‎urgently embarks on a nationwide exercise of documenting mental health cases so as to make ‎an informed policy decision. During this pandemic, mental health patients especially those who ‎live in the streets need to be accorded shelter to protect them from the disease while ‎medication for mental health ought to be subsidized. In the long run, the government can ensure ‎that mental health is integrated with the national health insurance programs, facilities and ‎hospitals for mental health to be upgraded and made more conducive. Collaborating with regional ‎and international actors to improve research in mental health as well as sensitization programs ‎to dilute the stigma currently existing can also go a long way.‎

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Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Web-based Intervention for Patients with Breast Cancer

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Data Analytics and Cloud Computing vs Breast Cancer: Learning That Helps

Data Analytics and Cloud Computing vs Breast Cancer: Learning That Helps

COVID 19 and Mental Health Experience in Kenya: Reflections for Change (Preprint)

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