Acceptance, use and challenges of digital prevention for arterial hypertension - a qualitative study among patients with high blood pressure in Germany.

Background: Arterial hypertension is one of the leading causes of premature death worldwide. In the care of patients with hypertension, digital tools - such as apps or wearables - can potentially help in prevention to facilitate lifestyle changes or to improve blood pressure control. In hypertension care in Germany, digital applications are only sporadically used by patients and recommended by physicians.

Benefits and Barriers to mHealth in Hypertension Care: Qualitative Study With German Health Care Professionals.

Background: Digital health technologies, particularly mobile health (mHealth) apps and wearable devices, have emerged as crucial assets in the battle against hypertension. By enabling lifestyle modifications, facilitating home blood pressure monitoring, and promoting treatment adherence, these technologies have significantly enhanced hypertension treatment.

Objective: This study aims to explore the perspectives of health care professionals (HCPs) regarding the perceived benefits and barriers associated with the integration of mHealth apps into routine hypertension care.

Challenges in the transition between medical and vocational rehabilitation: a qualitative focus group study with service providers in Germany.

Purpose: Rehabilitation aims to empower people to cope with their chronic conditions, to ensure societal and vocational participation and to prevent health-related early retirement. In Germany, medical and vocational rehabilitation are unconnected services. Expenditures on health-related early retirement in Germany rise while expenditures on vocational rehabilitation do not.

Health literacy and psychological wellbeing of employees working from home in Germany-online survey results.

Employees' psychological wellbeing is of special interest to employers, as mental illnesses are still the second most common reason for work absences. The psychological wellbeing of employees is determined by factors at an individual, interpersonal and organizational level. Health literacy encompasses both the individual and the organizational level and thus offers a good concept against the background of employees' psychological wellbeing.

mHealth Apps for Hypertension Self-Management: Interview Study Among Patient-Users.

Background: Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, affecting over a billion people worldwide. Mobile health (mHealth) apps have emerged as effective tools for managing hypertension, offering capabilities for monitoring blood pressure, fostering lifestyle changes, and improving treatment adherence.

Objective: This study aimed to explore patient-users' perspectives on the hypertension care mHealth app Hypertension.

Digital preventive measures for arterial hypertension (DiPaH) - a mixed-methods study protocol for health services research.

Introduction: Digital health measures promise to further improve the quality of cardiovascular care but have not yet been widely implemented in routine care. The research project Digital preventive measures for arterial hypertension (DiPaH) will systematically identify structural and individual factors in different stakeholders that influence the use of digital preventive measures in patients with arterial hypertension in Germany. Special focus is given to remote and sparsely populated areas, the age-specific impact, as well as influence of digital health literacy.

Priming of grasp affordance in an ambiguous object: evidence from ERPs, source localization, and motion tracking.

Object affordance refers to possibilities to interact with the objects in our environment, such as grasping. Previous research shows that objects that afford an action activate the motor system and attract attention, for example they elicit an enhanced frontal negativity and posterior P1 in the event-related potential. An effect on posterior N1 is discussed.