Valdez, Rupa Sheth

Beyond traditional advertisements: leveraging Facebook’s social structures for research recruitment.

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Exploring patients’ health information communication practices with social network members as a foundation for consumer health IT design.

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Informing Consumer Health Information Technology Design: How Patients Use Social Networking Sites - Final Report

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Accessibility and Beyond: Designing Consumer Health IT for Disabled Individuals

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The purpose of this project is to improve health care quality by creating design guidance for consumer health information technology that is responsive to the needs and preferences of individuals with physical, cognitive, and sensory disabilities.

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May 5, 2015 to April 30, 2018

Creating a Foundation for the Design of Culturally Informed Health IT - Final Report

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Informing Consumer Health Information Technology Design: How Patients Use Social Networking Sites

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This study showed that there is a range of how people communicate with their social network, how this information is communicated, the types of health information communicated, and the rationales for the communication.

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April 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015

Designing consumer health IT to enhance usability among different racial and ethnic groups within the United States.

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To talk or not to talk: exploring culturally diverse patients' health information communication choices.

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