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Happy new year, everyone! Hope this year is kind, joyful and full of excitement in life and work for everyone!
New research by IoPPN's Oliver Runswick and @kingslsm.bsky.social's Richard Bruce, published in PLOS ONE, has found that #exercise using a #VR headset can increase an individual’s work rate, overall enjoyment + elicit improved psychological responses
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/active-...
Alright! Some recent stories for my fellow #MetaAnalysis and #EvidenceSynthesis nerds out there...
First off, a growing surge of fake papers, especially in fields like medicine, poses a major risk to the integrity of systematic reviews www.science.org/content/arti...
Congratulations Masha! Looks like a fantastic PhD!
#BreastCancer #Surgery #QualityOfLife #OncologyResearch
Published in European Journal of Surgical Oncology!
✅ Key findings:
HRQoL, anxiety, and depression improved or returned to baseline by 24 months.
Physical HRQoL declined short-term after MBR (6 months) and BCS (12 months).
M saw poorer psychosocial HRQoL at 12 months.
Anxiety and depression were worse following MBR.
New systematic review alert! 📢 We examined changes in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in women with breast cancer from pre- to post-surgery, comparing mastectomy (M), mastectomy with reconstruction (MBR), and breast-conserving surgery (BCS).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Read the full trial paper in JAMA Network Open jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
You can also read about our user-testing here
doi.org/10.1016/j.pe...
And see a comparison to other readability calculators here
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Copilot was helpful for Python, but for R? It's like asking a poet to do your taxes, overcomplicates everything. Generally great for learning new languages (just not R... skip the AI for R, actually skip R, save yourself!).
Attention #JITAI lovers!
Our systematic review including 45 JITAI studies with physiological outcomes is finally online
dx.doi.org/10.2196/54119
We summarized the evidence, and extracted BCTs, decision points, decision rules, and intervention options.
#MobileHealth #digitalhealth 🧪
For Thanksgiving I want to spend the week highlighting some work that I’m really proud of from 2024. In doing so I’m going to highlight the wonderful research of students I am so thankful and lucky to work with! 🦃
“One of the biggest challenges for wearables has been whether the juice is worth the squeeze. Does the information provided move the needle enough to motivate folks to use them,” said Okun, with the Parkinson’s Foundation. I think once we find the tastiest juice...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
J of Physical Activity & Health: interesting new issue: journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
🚨Job Alert🚨 We’re looking for a Research Associate // Research Fellow to join our REFUEL-MS team at King’s College London! This is a great postdoc opportunity for a Health Psychologist or Implementation Scientist.
#refuelms #digitaltreatment #healthpsychology #msresearch #kingscollegelondon
Ever wanted to see the world through someone else’s eyes?
Prior specification is one of the hardest tasks in Bayesian modeling.
In our new paper, we (Florence Bockting, @stefanradev.bsky.social and me) develop a method for expert prior elicitation using generative neural networks and simulation-based learning.
arxiv.org/abs/2411.15826
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Web-browsing patterns reflect and shape mood and mental health
I’m excited to share our new protocol paper accepted in BMJ Open on Exploring how to widen the acceptability of public health interventions!
You can find the link below and details about the wider @nihr-pru-bass.bsky.social project here: behscipru.nihr.ac.uk/our-projects...
In addition to the health psychology started pack (link in next post), I created a #healthpsychology feed - also works with #healthpsych!
bsky.app/profile/did:...
#PsychSciSky #BehSci #AcademicSky
An interesting review in the BJHP on the development, implementation and evaluation of just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) for behaviour change; bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
PRU practical guide to writing policy briefs has been downloaded 10.000 x from #OpenScienceFramework
osf.io/preprints/os...
It makes it easy to communicate relevant evidence to policy decision makers
jointly developed by
@nihr-pru-bass.bsky.social & @ucl-cbc.bsky.social
@susanmichie.bsky.social
Automating evidence synthesis.
Mixed-methods and Bayesian approach.
Ways to assess and correct for publication bias.
Reviews and systematic reviews are especially useful:
scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...
Throwback to #EHPS2024 in beautiful Cascais, Portugal! Such a fabulous conference!
Sharing this again here on Bluesky!
Curious what implementation scientists think about this 👇
