Identifying Medication Management Smartphone App Features Suitable for Young Adults With Developmental Disabilities: Delphi Consensus Study

Background: Smartphone apps can be a tool to facilitate independent medication management among persons with developmental disabilities. At present, multiple medication management apps exist in the market, but only 1 has been specifically designed for persons with developmental disabilities. Before initiating further app development targeting this population, input from stakeholders including persons with developmental disabilities, caregivers, and professionals regarding the most preferred features should be obtained. Objective: The aim of this study was to identify medication management app features that are suitable to promote independence in the medication management process by young adults with developmental disabilities using a Delphi consensus method. Methods: A compilation of medication management app features was performed by searching the iTunes App Store, United States, in February 2016, using the following terms: adherence, medication, medication management, medication list, and medication reminder. After identifying features within the retrieved apps, a final list of 42 features grouped into 4 modules (medication list, medication reminder, medication administration record, and additional features) was included in a questionnaire for expert consensus rating. A total of 52 experts in developmental disabilities, including persons with developmental disabilities, caregivers, and professionals, were invited to participate in a 3-round Delphi technique. The purpose was to obtain consensus on features that are preferred and suitable to promote independence in the medication management process among persons with developmental disabilities. Consensus for the first, second, and third rounds was defined as ≥90%, ≥80%, and ≥75% agreement, respectively. Results: A total of 75 responses were received over the 3 Delphi rounds—30 in the first round, 24 in the second round, and 21 in the third round. At the end of the third round, cumulative consensus was achieved for 60% (12/20) items in the medication list module, 100% (3/3) in the medication reminder module, 67% (2/3) in the medication administration record module, and 63% (10/16) in the additional features module. In addition to the medication list, medication reminder, and medication administration record features, experts selected the following top 3 most important additional features: automatic refills through pharmacies; ability to share medication information from the app with providers; and ability to share medication information from the app with family, friends, and caregivers. The top 3 least important features included a link to an official drug information source, privacy settings and password protection, and prescription refill reminders. Conclusions: Although several mobile apps for medication management exist, few are specifically designed to support persons with developmental disabilities in the complex medication management process. Of the 42 different features assessed, 64% (27/42) achieved consensus for inclusion in a future medication management app. This study provides information on the features of a medication management app that are most important to persons with developmental disabilities, caregivers, and professionals

Comunicação, imagem e reputação em organizações desportivas: um estudo exploratório

A comunicação com propósitos de construção de imagem e reputação constitui um assunto importante no campo da gestão das organizações desportivas. Contudo, existe pouca investigação empírica sobre a forma como estas instituições gerem os seus activos intangíveis. Este trabalho propõe-se apresentar um estudo exploratório sobre as estratégias de comunicação usadas pelos clubes de futebol Portugueses para gerirem as associações de imagem e reputação junto dos seus públicos. Para o efeito, realizámos um estudo de casos múltiplo (Eisenhardt, 1989) aplicado a quatro clubes de futebol nacionais (Futebol Clube do Porto, Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Sporting Clube de Braga e Sporting Clube de Portugal)

Football and reputation management: the role of online communication platforms

Football clubs, as any type of organization, have a reputation to be managed. More than a sport, football is a business activity that generates high revenues, attracts considerable investments and extreme media exposure. Therefore, reputation management might be considered a key function, when it comes to shape the perceptions of a club’s constituents. As Fombrun (1996) noted, reputations are partly a reflection of the organization’s identity and also their efforts to develop a favorable image for themselves. For Argenti (1998), the first role of corporate communication is to establish how a firm wants to be perceived by different constituencies and how it chooses to identify itself. Following this point of view, reputation management lies within the corporate communication function. Nevertheless, as Resnick (2004) states, managing organizational reputation seems to be a difficult or neglected task for most executive managers. For Argenti and Barnes (2009) in the last decade the business of managing relationships has changed and, consequently, the business reality also changed. However, the opposite is also true, the transformations of the business reality have altered the relationships between organizations and its key constituents. Both authors take as fact the existence of a “stakeholder empowerment”, a scenario within which top executives lose authority that is transferred to the organization’s once-passive audiences, such as employees, consumers, media and investors. The rise of the internet and online communications platforms, like social media - or in other words, the development of a web 2.0 model - sponsored the ability of stakeholders to communicate with one another, to build communities, to disseminate their own messages and the possibility to “talk-back”. For Argenti and Barnes (2009) managers have to redefine their strategies and adapt the corporate communication function to this new paradigm. If we take this trends as certain and bring the model to the sports context, than football clubs’ everyday life can be changing radically. Especially because it’s simultaneously a sport activity and a business that tends to generate strong emotional responses from their constituencies that seem to be more than willing to “talk-back”. In order to understand more deeply the surfacing of a “stakeholder empowerment”, the role of online communication platforms and the significance given to reputation management, we have conducted a multiple case study research (Eisenhardt, 1989) within the football context. We studied the 16 Portuguese football clubs that are competing in the first division league in the season 2010/11. With this work we also expect to reveal some clues for future research that might lead to the development of an adequate framework analysis for reputation in football clubs

FC Porto: a reputational perspective on corporate football

The complexity that surrounds football as sport and as business, led us to question how corporate communication and reputation management might help build a balance between financial control and great achievements in football competitions. With the purpose of studying this issue, an exploratory single case study research was conducted. The choice was the Portuguese club FC Porto, and its sports operating company, FC Porto – Futebol, SAD, which can be regarded as a Category of One company. The findings suggest that even if corporate reputation is not a core issue for the club, the role of communication and the effective attention on reputation management might help the club to benefit from a better stakeholder management

FELICIDADE E AUTOCONHECIMENTO: IMAGENS ABENSONHADAS EM MIA COUTO

Breves embasamentos para uma pesquisa sobre as imagens da felicidade nas literaturas africanas de língua portuguesa, seguidos de uma, também breve, análise da obra Estórias abensonhadas, do escritor Mia Couto. Destaque para a ideia de autoconhecimento como movimento fundamental para o processo de “outrar-se”, visto aqui como uma das vias na busca pela felicidade. A obra coutiana é lida como uma crítica e uma alternativa para os becos, aparentemente sem saída, das dores e dos traumas criados em nossa sociedade narcísica.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Imagens de felicidade; autoconhecimento; outrar-se, Estórias abensonhadas

CARNAVALIZAR É PRECISO: UMA LEITURA DA PARÓDIA EM QUEM ME DERA SER ONDA

Enfoque da novela Quem me dera ser onda, uma das mais conhecidas obras do escritor Manuel Rui e tambémda literatura angolana, a partir do diálogo que a obra sugere com A revolução dos bichos, um dos maispopulares clássicos do escritor inglês George Orwell. O conceito de carnavalização bakht iniana assim como ode paródia e de realismo grotesco são considerados instrumentos úteis para se pensar as condições culturaisda sociedade angolana na pós-independência.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Quem me dera ser onda, A revolução dos bichos, carnavalização, paródia,realismo grotesc

Os Peppini (Flávio Quintale)

Há um bom tempo não tenho em mãos um livro como Os Peppini, do escritor Flávio Quintale, publicado em 2011 pela editora portuguesa Vieira da Silva. Li a obra com um prazer quase juvenil, lembrando-me da época em que ler era, para mim, antes de mais nada, um puro deleite. Com o mesmo prazer queacompanhava O senhor de Jalna, de Mazo de lá Roche, lia Os Budenbrook, de Thomas Mann, sem me preocupar em categorizar os livros

O CONCEITO DE INTERFERÊNCIA NAS RELAÇÕES LITERÁRIAS ENTRE O BRASIL E O IMPÉRIO PORTUGUÊS EM ÁFRICA

ESTE TRABALHO PROCURA APONTAR A PROPRIEDADE DO CONCEITO DE INTERFERÊNCIA PARA O ESTUDO DAS RELAÇÕES LITERÁRIAS ENTRE O BRASIL E O IMPÉRIO PORTUGUÊS. O CONCEITO, SURGIDO A PARTIR DAS PROPOSTAS DA TEORIA DO POLISSISTEMA, DO TEÓRICO ITAMAR ZOHAR, PARECE ESPECIALMENTE INTERESSANTE PARA SE PENSAR AS RELAÇÕES LITERÁRIAS ENTRE BRASIL E ÁFRICA DESDE O PERÍODO COLONIAL. TAIS RELAÇÕES, FORAM INTENSAS E ENVOLVEM ASPECTOS QUE DIZEM RESPEITO NÃO SÓ À LITERATURA, MAS À CULTURA DE UM MODO GERAL

Neighbours: de violências, mulheres, mudanças...e homens

Enfoque da obra Neighbours, da escritora moçambicana Lília Momplé, a partir da discussão que a narrativa sugere sobre a mulher e a violência que a cerca. Tal violência é vista necessariamente em relação com uma série de outras violências, como a vizinhança com a África do Sul, o cotidiano assustador de Moçambique e outros conflitos sociais que se estabeleceram no pós-colonialismo. Além de discutir o complexo quadro cultural moçambicano, Neighbours explora “novas” estratégias narrativas, construindo um interessante painel dos comportamentos masculino e feminino em Moçambique e, por extensão, em qualquer lugar do planeta

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The renewed focus on the study of corporate reputation shows an increasing acknowledgement that this intangible asset has a strong role to play in a company’s ability to thrive. Notwithstanding, managing the reputation of an organization seems to be a difficult task, or one that is neglected by most executive managers, who fail to defend their companies from crisis situations. In this paper, our purpose is to analyze the corporate communication programs of the company Bosch Car Multimedia - Braga (Portugal) and thereby gain a deeper understanding of the role played by ‘safety nets’ in managing reputational risk and preventing crisis scenarios at a local level. In this context, we conducted a study in order to analyze the state of the art of BCMP’s corporate communication programs, which were created locally with the aim of contributing to the development of ‘safety nets’. BCMP is an interesting case for study and debate with respect to reputational risk and crisis communication, along with the development of ‘safety nets’, since the company has to face the challenge of combining a centralized communication structure (based in Germany) with a strong and demanding union workforce.(undefined