History repeating: guidelines to address common problems in psychedelic science

M van Elk, EI Fried - Therapeutic Advances in …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Research in the last decade has expressed considerable optimism about the clinical
potential of psychedelics for the treatment of mental disorders. This optimism is reflected in …

[HTML][HTML] Chronic cough: new insights and future prospects

A Morice, P Dicpinigaitis, L McGarvey… - European Respiratory …, 2021 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Chronic cough is defined in adults as a cough that lasts for≥ 8 weeks. When it proves
intractable to standard-of-care treatment, it can be referred to as refractory chronic cough …

Now trending: Coping with non-parallel trends in difference-in-differences analysis

AM Ryan, E Kontopantelis, A Linden… - Statistical methods in …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Difference-in-differences (DID) analysis is used widely to estimate the causal effects of
health policies and interventions. A critical assumption in DID is “parallel trends”: that pre …

Could cognitive behavioural therapy be an effective treatment for long COVID and post COVID-19 fatigue syndrome? Lessons from the qure study for Q-fever fatigue …

M Vink, A Vink-Niese - Healthcare, 2020 - mdpi.com
An increasing number of young and previously fit and healthy people who did not require
hospitalisation continue to have symptoms months after mild cases of COVID-19 …

Beyond restorative benefits: Evaluating the effect of forest therapy on creativity

CPS Yu, H Hsieh - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2020 - Elsevier
This study had three purposes:(1) assessing physiological and psychological responses of a
3-day forest therapy workshop,(2) evaluating the effects of the forest therapy workshop on …

[HTML][HTML] Intermittent mindfulness practice can be beneficial, and daily practice can be harmful. An in depth, mixed methods study of the “Calm” app's (mostly positive) …

J Clarke, S Draper - Internet interventions, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives Despite a weak evidence base, daily use of mindfulness-based self-help
smartphone applications (apps) is said to promote wellbeing. However, many do not use …

[HTML][HTML] Emotional support during times of stress: Can text messaging compete with in-person interactions?

S Holtzman, D DeClerck, K Turcotte, D Lisi… - Computers in Human …, 2017 - Elsevier
There has been a recent and dramatic surge in the popularity of text messaging as a means
of connecting with our social networks. The current research represents the first randomized …

Child wasting and concurrent stunting in low-and middle-income countries

A Mertens, J Benjamin-Chung, JM Colford Jr… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Sustainable Development Goal 2.2—to end malnutrition by 2030—includes the
elimination of child wasting, defined as a weight-for-length z-score that is more than two …

The paired t test and beyond: Recommendations for testing the central tendencies of two paired samples in research on speech, language and hearing pathology

T Rietveld, R van Hout - Journal of communication disorders, 2017 - Elsevier
Purpose In this tutorial we review current practice in the analysis of data obtained in designs
involving two dependent samples and evaluate two conventional statistics: the t test for …

Understanding short-term blood-pressure-variability phenotypes: from concept to clinical practice

VM Chadachan, MT Ye, JC Tay… - … journal of general …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Clinic blood pressure (BP) is recognized as the gold standard for the screening, diagnosis,
and management of hypertension. However, optimal diagnosis and successful management …