BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. For people living with CVD, clinical guidelines recommend ongoing self-care such as symptom monitoring, medication adherence, and lifestyle modification...
BACKGROUND: Effective communication is essential in medical practice, especially in dealing with the increasing number of patients presenting with mental health conditions. Feedback plays a crucial role in improving communication skills but is often ...
Social media platforms are prevalently used to express and share opinions on a wide range of topics, which has amplified interest in textual emotion detection. However, accurately detecting emotions in individuals, especially those with communication...
BACKGROUND: Many patients struggle to understand referral letters and discharge summaries; low health literacy is prevalent, and short consultations limit explanations. Large language models (LLMs) can translate clinical jargon into layperson languag...
BACKGROUND: There is a need to increase health care professional training capacity to meet global needs by 2030. Effective communication is essential for delivering safe and effective patient care. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies may provid...
BACKGROUND: The increasing volume and complexity of biomedical literature pose challenges for making scientific knowledge accessible to lay audiences. Lay summaries, now widely encouraged or required by journals, aim to bridge this gap by promoting h...
BACKGROUND: Body image plays a crucial role in both physical and mental health, influencing self-esteem, eating behaviors, and psychological well-being. Young adults are particularly vulnerable to body dissatisfaction, defined as negative thoughts or...
BACKGROUND: Cancer survivorship is a complicated, chronic, and long-lasting experience, causing uncertainty and a wide range of physical and emotional health concerns. Due to the complexity of cancer, patients often seek out multiple sources of healt...
BACKGROUND: Traditional clinical vignettes, though widely used in medical education, often focus on prototypical presentations; require substantial time and effort to develop; and fail to represent patient diversity, the complexity of clinical condit...
BACKGROUND: With advancements in artificial intelligence and large language models, researchers and designers have increasingly focused on enhancing the conversational capacity of health-related conversational agents (CAs). Communication competence, ...
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