Showing papers in "Social Science & Medicine in 2022"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found that the influence gain nudge was effective in increasing the number of older adults who newly decided to receive the vaccine, while the influence loss nudge increased viewers' negative emotion.

TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual model detailing cultural trauma and the mechanisms through which it may disrupt health and create disparities by damaging three health-protective cultural resources: cultural modes, institutions, and lands.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of early evening curfews on mobility and found that an 18.75% reduction in hours where people were allowed to leave home led to a relatively small increase in time spent in residential spaces.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors perform a Critical Interpretive Synthesis (CIS) centering the ways the digitalization of healthcare work has been investigated in recent STS, sociological and medical literature.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors evaluated the effects of the diagnosis intervention packet (DIP) payment on medical expenditures and provider behaviors and found that total health expenditures per case have decreased by 3.5%, which is mainly driven by a substantial decrease in drug expenditures.

TL;DR: This paper examined the associations among family functioning, subjective and actigraphy-measured sleep, mental health (depressive and anxiety symptoms), and cultural identity in a sample of urban American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth.

TL;DR: In this article, secondary data analysis from the qualitative evaluations of the SASA! intervention in Uganda, (conducted in 2012 involving 40 community members) and the Indashyikirwa intervention in Rwanda, between 2014 and 2018 involving 14 couples and 36 other stakeholders explores the under-researched linkages between romantic jealousy and IPV, and describes how these interventions mitigated it.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether social isolation is associated with OUD prevalence among older Medicare beneficiaries, and examined whether and how residential stability moderates the association between social isolation and OUD in US counties, and determined if there are any differences in these associations between metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties.

TL;DR: The authors explored men's conceptualization and experiences of emotional violence by female partners in Mwanza, Tanzania, and found that women's ownership and engagement in economic activities and the scarcity of employment opportunities for men challenged their household dominance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored how persons living with brain tumors and informal caregivers perceive the potential usefulness of a social network-mapping tool in their self-care and to describe the qualities in the interpersonal relations that they map.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply a unique combination of register and survey data collected in 2019 to assess equity in opportunities to access treatment for patients with recently diagnosed type 2 diabetes, and conclude that even in a health system with comprehensive universal coverage, healthcare inequity can arise already at the stage of offering access to preventive treatment.

TL;DR: This paper conducted a qualitative descriptive study using cross-case thematic analysis to investigate the experiences and narratives of eight individuals who lived in the area where the cluster occurred and who survived an episode of near-fatal self-harm at the time of the cluster.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted 21 qualitative life-history interviews with self-identified toms in Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand, to evaluate whether and how gender identity, independent of and together with same-sex sexuality, influences experiences of stigma among gender non-conforming sexual minority women.

TL;DR: The authors carried out a narrative literature review to identify key areas where information literacy research could help to extend understanding about how people interact with information within health contexts, and used examples from literature to suggest that assumptions related to how information, models of information use, social dynamics of information environments, the outcomes of information activity and critical approaches to information practice are understood.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore caregivers' perceptions of young children's activities within and outside the home, and consider how lived experiences of caregiving align (or not) with current physical activity policy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the refrigerator and other everyday use objects are used as methodological tools in health-related studies in the home, and they conclude that regularly utilizing the refrigerator may help researchers interpret qualitative data about nutrition and eating habits.

TL;DR: In this article, the relative social value of two conceptualisations of carer quality of life (health-related and care-related) compared to patient quality-of-life (QoL) was estimated using a person trade-off (PTO) study with 990 representative members of the UK public.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors unpack how trust dynamics between the state, the provider, and the service user shape the functioning of mental healthcare in one of the former Soviet states -Lithuania.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated whether suicide is less likely in first-year postpartum women as compared to women past the first year post-partum and found that suicide was more likely in women who were single at index birth, had lower socioeconomic status, or had a mental disorder history.

TL;DR: The U.S. TAPUR trial, the Dutch DRUP trial, and the Canadian CAPTUR trial as mentioned in this paper have recently been joined by similar Scandinavian studies, and these trials represent innovative forms of clinical research that, beyond their varying experimental nature, have been designed to transform the evidential processes to provide access to biomarker-driven treatments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method for understanding the content of unwritten rules supportive of violations of written rules in light of the German Organ Transplant Scandal, using data from organ transplant medicine in Germany.

TL;DR: In this article, a gender-specific fixed-effects cross-lagged panel modeling (FE-CLPM) was used to examine bidirectional and within-person linkages of religious attendance with global cognitive function.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the consequences of the adoption of medical technology for expertise coordination among specialists, and show how the introduction of iMRI triggered a significant change in temporal, interactional and role dimensions of coordination.