Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) Volume 14 (2012) * Impact Factor (2010): 4.7 - #1 in Medical Informatics and #2 in Health Services Research by Impact Factor * http://www.jmir.org/2012
Content Alert, 04 Jun 2012
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The following article(s) has/have just been published in the UPCOMING JMIR issue (Volume 14 / Issue 3): (articles are still being added for this issue)
Internet-based Survey & Research Methodology ------------------ Using Crowdsourcing Technology for Testing Multilingual Public Health Promotion Materials Anne M. Turner, Katrin Kirchhoff, Daniel Capurro J Med Internet Res 2012 (Jun 04); 14(3):e79 HTML (open access): http://www.jmir.org/2012/3/e79/ PDF (members only): http://www.jmir.org/2012/3/e79/PDF
Background: Effective communication of public health messages is a key strategy for health promotion by public health agencies. Creating effective health promotion materials requires careful message design and feedback from representatives of target populations. This is particularly true when the target audiences are hard to reach as limited English proficiency groups. Traditional methods of soliciting feedback—such as focus groups and convenience sample interviews—are expensive and time consuming. As a result, adequate feedback from target populations is often insufficient due to the time and resource constraints characteristic to public health. Objective: To describe a pilot study investigating the use of crowdsourcing technology as a method to gather rapid and relevant feedback on the design of health promotion messages for oral health. Our goal was to better describe the demographics of participants responding to a crowdsourcing survey and to test whether crowdsourcing could be used to gather feedback from English-speaking and Spanish-speaking participants in a short period of time and at relatively low costs. Methods: We developed health promotion materials on pediatric dental health issues in four different formats and in two languages (English and Spanish). We then designed an online survey to elicit feedback on format preferences and made it available in both languages via the Amazon Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform. Results: We surveyed 236 native English-speaking and 163 native Spanish-speaking participants in less than 12 days, at a cost of US $374. Overall, Spanish-speaking participants originated from a wider distribution of countries than the overall Latino population in the United States. Most participants were in the 18- to 29-year age range and had some college or graduate education. Participants provided valuable input for the health promotion material design. Conclusions: Our results indicate that crowdsourcing can be an effective method for recruiting and gaining feedback from English-speaking and Spanish-speaking people. Compared with traditional methods, crowdsourcing has the potential to reach more diverse populations than convenience sampling, while substantially reducing the time and cost of gathering participant feedback. More widespread adoption of this method could streamline the development of effective health promotion materials in multiple languages.
__Publish your grant proposal, protocol, formative research, or early trial results__ <h5>Call for Papers: We Publish Your Grant Proposal or Protocol!</h5> Developing a grant proposal or writing a study protocol can be as much work as writing a paper - but it is often not "rewarding" as it cannot be cited (e.g. in a CV) as publication. This is about to change, as we now publish protocols and grant proposals! Publishing protocols does not only benefit the authors, but also the research community at large: For other researchers, having access to protocols of ongoing studies is invaluable to avoid duplication of efforts, and provides opportunities to learn from winning proposals and carefully developed protocols. It also opens up the possibility to give feedback early in an ongoing or planned study (e.g. pointing out flaws in the search strategy of a systematic review, or pointing the authors to studies that should be included in a meta-analysis or scoping review).
JMIR has not published protocols until now, but we are happy to announce the birth of our latest spin-off journal, "JMIR Research Protocols" (<a href="http://www.researchprotocols.org">http://www.researchprotocols.org</a>).
JMIR Research Protocols publishes all kinds of grant proposals and protocols (funded and unfunded), e.g. a protocol for a systematic review or scoping review, a protocol or grant application for a randomized trial, an interview guide for qualitative research, or a formative evaluation with a plan for further research of a technology application.
Since the launch of this journal a few days ago (early April) we have already received a dozen submissions, so we know that we are onto something and seem to fill a gap. Papers published in JMIR Research Protocols will adhere to the same quality standards as papers published in JMIR, will be carefully copyedited and deposited in PubMed Central / PubMed. And if the protocol/grant proposal is already reviewed (and reviewer comments are uploaded during submission), then we are granting a 50% discount on the Article Processing Fee. As an introductory offer, authors also received 20$ off if they submit subsequent papers based on the protocol in JMIR.
Please submit your protocol at <a href="http://www.researchprotocols.org/author">http://www.researchprotocols.org/author</a> (note that you can use the same username/password as for JMIR.org). http://www.jmir.org/announcement/view/55
__iMedicalApps & Medicine 2.0 mHealth Award 2012__ In partnership with the Medicine 2.0 congress (5th World Congress on Social Media, Mobile Apps, and Internet/Web 2.0 in Medicine and Health, Boston, Sept 15-16th, 2012), iMedicalApps is sponsoring an award for the best paper on mobile health presented at the 2012 Medicine 2.0 conference in Boston. iMedicalApps.com is the leading on-line news publication for health professionals on mobile health and medical apps. The award will consist of $500, a medical app bundle worth more than $200 and a feature article on iMedicalApps after the conference.
To qualify for this award, the submitted abstract (which can be presentation proposal submitted in the research, practice, or business track) should pertain to the use of mobile or wireless technologies in the diagnosis or treatment of disease, healthcare professional communication/care coordination or clinician-directed wellness behavior modification. Papers on telehealth or remote health monitoring will also be considered.
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