All projects from the School of Health Sciences
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Electronic PerSon-cENtred care and Specialized Palliative Care for people with dementla: lmproving the quality of life with Outcome guided Recognition and assessment of relevant Symptoms, neeDs and care issues (eSENIORS)
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Parti-CP: Barriers and facilitators for participation in children for cerebral palsy, their siblings and families in Switzerland
The aim of Parti-CP is to gather profound knowledge about how children with CP, their siblings, and their families as a whole experience participation in Switzerland, then use this knowledge to formulate evidence-based recommendations. The mixed-methods study will include four work packages with qualitative and ...
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Why do some older workers with adverse health conditions remain in the labor force while others exit early?
In our project, we focus on the labor force participation of older workers with adverse healthconditions (i.e., chronic conditions, injuries, or illnesses, both in physical and mental terms). Evidence shows that a non-negligible share of workers experiences adverse health conditions at the end of their careers. ...
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myBeFit: concept and implementation
Aim of the project is to develop and implement the concept myBeFit for members of the SVMB who cannot or do not want to participate in the SVMB group exercise therapy. MyBeFit includes an individual online exercise support for people with axial Spondyloarthritis, including progress documentation and feedback ...
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Technologies for Therapy at a Distance for Individuals With Stroke
Stroke is one of the main causes of permanent limitations in activities of daily living and participation in everyday life worldwide. Occupational therapists make a significant contribution to helping clients return to their daily lives after stroke. A high number of people living with the effects of a stroke want ...
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IMAgiNE EURO (Improving MAternal Newborn carE In the EURO Region)
IMAgiNE EURO (Improving MAternal Newborn carE In the EURO Region), coordinated by the WHO Collaborating center of the Child Referral Hospital and Research Institute (IRCCS) Burlo Garofolo Trieste is a project based on a network of currently 20 countries. It includes two online surveys (one for mothers, the other for ...
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Producing an Arthritis Value-Framework with Economic Evidence – Paving the Way for Rare Childhood Disease (PAVE)
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User-centric Development for Group Antenatal Care in Switzerland
The innovative antenatal care service zäme schwanger is offered by Hebamme unterwegs in cooperation with the Thetriz lab at ZHAW. It is planned that the pilot programme "zäme schwanger" (hereafter service) will be disseminated and implemented throughout Switzerland by Hebamme unterwegs and other midwifery practices. ...
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Translation of the Back Pain Attitude Questionnaire (Back-PAQ) and review of its psychometric properties
This project comprises the translation into German and the testing of the psychometric properties (reliability, validity) of the Back Pain Attitude Questionnaire (Back-PAQ) in German-speaking Switzerland. The questionnaire captures the views and beliefs of people with/without back pain as well as of health ...
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Design Living-Lab
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Mobile Inclusion Lab
We create a Real-Lab (Mobile Inclusion Lab, “MobILe”) that enables experimental development of sustainable rehabilitation and assistive (R&A) technologies for people with disabilities. By providing a toolkit (hardware and software, e.g., 3D-printing, sensors, motors, human-computer interfaces) with teaching and ...
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Building a global bridge in health professions
Motivation/Rational Given the rapid change in the health care capacity and demand land-scape globally, looking at international collaboration for health professional education is key to success to meet future challenges nurses and midwives will be confronted with. The School of Health Sciences ZHAW has engaged in ...
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Development and evaluation of a blended patient education and self-management program for patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease.
Background Self-management programs aim to improve patients’ abilities to cope with their chronic disease. However, validated and established programs for patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease (fILD) are missing. Goal We aim to develop a modern blended patient education and self-management program for ...
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Creating Inclusive Education: from the Perspectives of Children, Parents, Teachers and Others
Inclusive schools teach children skills to engage with each other and do things together in classrooms, playgrounds, and other places, disregarding differences in abilities, gender, race, class, and language. Education is contextualised within local systems, varying across socio-historical and cultural settings. ...
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National Nutrition Survey for children and adolescents
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SUPER-B: Supervised preoperative rehabilitation in patients scheduled for lumbar spinal surgery – A scoping review
Background: Prehabilitation before lumbar spine surgery may pose a valuable contribution to patients' perioperative pathways by improving physical capacity and reducing pain to withstand both, physical and mental stress caused by surgery. Reduced complication rates, faster recovery and sustainable patient-relevant ...
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The Course and Neuroplasticity in Neck Pain-Associated Disorders and Whiplash-Associated Disorders in the General Population
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Development and evaluation of a training app for people with mild cognitive impairment
Physical activity and training that comply with national and international physical activity recommendations have an undisputed positive effect on health, well-being, and quality of life, regardless of age and possible pre-existing conditions, such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI). However, behavioral change in ...
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Development and piloting of a memory notebook for people with mild cognitive impairment
This project aims to develop and pilot a memory notebook for people with mild cognitive impairment. The Memory Notebook is designed to help people with mild cognitive impairment to better structure their daily lives. The notebook is structured like an agenda and contains three sections per day. One section for ...
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ADHS-Digital: Testing of a «Roundtable-Boardgame»
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Family Outcome of Early Intervention
Background Family-centred practice, an approach in which intervention is directed at the whole family, is now considered "state of the art" in paediatric early intervention. Studies have shown that children develop best in a supportive family where the needs of all family members are addressed. The goal of ...
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Sex and gender integration in the bachelor curricula of nursing, physiotherapy, and occupational therapy
The project aims to increase awareness and competence regarding gender-related health issues in the physical therapy, occupational therapy, and nursing curricula by 1) identifying topics that need to be addressed with regard to sex and gender; 2) collecting the current status regarding sex and gender in the ...
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Artificial Intelligence for Myoelectrically Controlled Cooperative Arm Prostheses
Individuals with an upper limp amputation often use a prosthesis to conduct activities of daily living and participate in society. However, the upper limb is challenging to replace, as the arm and hand have to conduct very complex gross and fine motor movements, with many degrees of freedom. In a survey with 307 ...
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Development of a training manual for physical training and an accompanying handout for independent training at home for older persons with mild cognitive impairment
The benefits of physical activity and exercise for health are undisputed and are recommended for the general population, adapted to their needs concerning age or pre-existing conditions. Unfortunately, no training manual has been developed specifically for this group of people and their needs for people with mild ...
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Tele-Assessment: Leveraging Deep Learning to Assess Upper Limb Kinematics after Stroke with Off-the-shelf Webcams
We are developing and validating a camera-based compensation classifier ("3C") for tele-neurorehabilitation to distinguish normal arm movements from those with compensation. The algorithm can be used with a webcam alone or in combination with an inertial measurement unit (IMU). This method improves ...