Are nursing home employees ready for the technical evolution? German-wide survey on the status quo of affinity for technology and technology interaction

Background Technological devices can support nursing home employees; however, their perspective is not sufficiently studied. Our aims were thus to (a) examine affinity for technology and technology interaction and related sociodemographic confounders, as well as (b) detect possible requirements and boundary conditions relevant for the development and implementation of assistive technologies among nursing home employees. Methods We conducted an online survey between May and July of 2022 among 200 nursing home employees in Germany. The survey included two questionnaires, that is, Affinity for Technology Interaction (ATI) and Affinity for Technology—Electronic Devices (TA-EG; subscales TA-EG-Enthusiasm, TA-EG-Competence, TA-EG-Positive Consequences, and TA-EG-Negative Consequences), as well as sociodemographic variables, that is, age, gender, professional groups, education/graduation level. We carried out factorial variance and multiple regression analyses. Results There were differences between age groups in ATI (lower score with increasing age) and between gender, age, and professional group in TA-EG (lower score for females, participants with higher ages, and nursing home managers). Predictors of ATI were age and professional group, predictors of TA-EG, TA-EG-Enthusiasm, and TA-EG-Competence were gender, age, and professional group. Predictors of TA-EG-Positive Consequences were education and professional group. Conclusions We observed rather high affinity for technology and technology interaction values overall, and particularly for nursing home employees compared to managers. Significant predictors for technology affinity and interaction may have important implications, for example the perspectives of nursing home employees and managers should be considered separately in the technological design, development, and implementation process. Furthermore, an open dialogue between all stakeholders should be encouraged to increase the probability of actual technology use

Comparative analysis of arterial stiffness non invasively evaluated in hemodialyzed patients

pacientes hemodializados se producen en vasos elásticos y musculares pero sólo la Velocidad de la Onda del Pulso (VOP) aórtica ha demostrado ser un índice de alto valor pronóstico. Lo cual deja de lado a las arterias musculares. Los objetivos del estudio fueron: a) medir la VOP aórtica y la carotido-radial de pacientes hemodializados, y b) repetir el análisis anterior en la misma cohorte 5 años después, comparando cuatro índices diferentes de rigidez arterial. Material y métodos: a 23 pacientes hemodializados se les evaluó la VOP aórtica (VOPcf), la carotido-radial (VOPcr) y se calculó: la VOP centro-periférica (VOPcp), la diferencia (ΔVOP), el desacople de VOP y su cambio porcentual (%VOP). Las evaluaciones se hicieron en 2007 (Tiempo 1) y en 2012 (Tiempo 2). Resultados: La VOPcp mostró un aumento significativo entre la evaluación realizada entre el Tiempo 1 y el 2 (de 1.1±0.3 a 1.4±0.4; p<0.01). En los mismos tiempos ΔVOP mostró que los valores se incrementaban en términos negativos (de -0.9±3.0 a -2.7±2.9; p<0.05). El desacople de la rigidez centro-periférica mostró un significativo aumento (valores negativos) entre el Tiempo 1 y 2 (de 0.0±0.1 a -0.1±0.1; p<0.02). El %VOP ANÁLISIS COMPARATIVO DE LA RIGIDEZ ARTERIAL EVALUADA EN FORMA NO INVASIVA EN PACIENTES HEMODIALIZADOS COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ARTERIAL STIFFNESS NON INVASIVELY EVALUATED IN HEMODIALYZED PATIENTS Cinthia Galli (1,2), Rodolfo Valtuille (3), Maia Daniela Percunte (2), Nahuel Hernán Carrizo (2), Daniel Bia (4), Ricardo Armentano (1,2), Edmundo Cabrera Fischer (1,2) 1) Área de Investigación y Desarrollo Universidad de Favaloro (AIDUF), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires 2) Facultad Regional Buenos Aires, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Buenos Aires 3) Fresenius FME Burzaco, Buenos Aires 4) Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay Nefrología, Diálisis y Trasplante 2016; 36 (1) Pág. 26-33 entre ambas mediciones (valores negativos) mostró un significativo aumento (de -4.8±22.0 a -21.5±24.2; p<0.05). Conclusiones: en la presente investigación los índices de rigidez obtenidos en pacientes hemodializados, incluyendo arterias tanto elásticas y musculares, mostraron diferencias estadísticamente significativas cuando se compararon dos mediciones separadas por cinco años. Sin embargo los niveles de significación no fueron similares.Objectives: Changes in arterial stiffness in hemodialysis patients occur both, in elastic and muscular vessels but only the aortic Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV) has demonstrated to be a high prognostic value index, however, muscular arteries are not involved in the aortic PWV measurement. The purpose of this research was: a) to evaluate the aortic and carotid-radial PWV of hemodialysis patients, b) to repeat these measurements in the same cohort after 5 years comparing four different arterial stiffness indexes. Methods: 23 hemodialyzed patients carotid-femoral PWV (PWVcf) and carotidradial (PWVcr) were evaluated and calculations were as follows: PWV ratio, PWV difference (/ PWV), PWV mismatch and PWV percentage change (%PWV). These evaluations were performed using data obtained in 2007 (Time 1) and 2012 (Time 2). Results: PWV ratio showed a significant increase between measurements performed in Time 1 and 2 (from 1.1±0.3 to 1.4±0.4; p≤0.01). Similar increases in negative terms were found when /PWV was calculated from -0.9±3.0 to -2.7±2.9; p≤0.05) Calculated values of PWV mismatch increased significantly (negative values) between Time 1 and 2 (from 0.0±0.1 to -0.1±0.1; p≤0.02) Percent changes of PWV between Time 1 and 2 (negative values) showed a significant increase (from -4.8±22.0 to -21.5±24.2; p≤0.05). Conclusions: Stiffness indexes, obtained in hemodialyzed patients including both elastic and muscular arteries used in this research showed statistically significant differences when two measures with 5 years interval were compared. However significance levels were not similar.Fil: Galli, Cintia Nora. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Buenos Aires; Argentina. Universidad Favaloro. Área de Investigación y Desarrollo; ArgentinaFil: Valtuille, Rodolfo. Fresenius Medical Care Burzaco; ArgentinaFil: Percunte, Maia Daniela. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Buenos Aires; ArgentinaFil: Carrizo, Nahuel Hernán. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Buenos Aires; ArgentinaFil: Bia, Daniel. Universidad de la República; UruguayFil: Armentano, Ricardo Luis. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Buenos Aires; Argentina. Universidad Favaloro. Área de Investigación y Desarrollo; ArgentinaFil: Cabrera Fischer, Edmundo Ignacio. Universidad Favaloro. Área de Investigación y Desarrollo; Argentina. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Buenos Aires; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin