Algorithms in the room: AI, representation, and decisions about sustainable futures This article considers the role of generative AI technologies, such as large language models (LLMs), in promoting the views of underrepresented groups…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

Fine-tuning Large Language Models in Behavioral Psychology for Scalable Physical Activity Coaching Personalized, smartphone-based coaching improves physical activity but relies on static, human-crafted messages. We introduce My Heart Counts (MHC)-Coach, a large language model fine-tuned on the Tran...

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy new year, everyone! Hope this year is kind, joyful and full of excitement in life and work for everyone!

Want to get active? Try using Virtual Reality Exercising while using a Virtual Reality (VR) headset can increase an individual’s work rate, overall enjoyment, and elicit improved psychological responses compared to a non-VR equivalent.

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-...

‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say

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.

Changes in health-related quality of life following breast cancer surgery: A systematic review of the literature on the role of surgical approaches This systematic review aimed to examine changes in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in women with breast cancer from pre-to post surgery, compar…

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...

Online Plain Language Tool and Health Information Quality This randomized clinical trial investigates whether an online text editing tool is effective in helping health information providers simplify written health information according to health literacy an...

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!).

Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions for Behavior Change in Physiological Health Outcomes and the Use Case for Knee Osteoarthritis: Systematic Review Background: The prevalence of knee osteoarthritis (KOA) in the adult population is high and patients profit from individualized therapy approaches. Just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) are upc...

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 🧪

Interoception in pregnancy: Implications for peripartum depression

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?

Interventions for the management of long covid (post-covid condition): living systematic review Objective To compare the effectiveness of interventions for the management of long covid (post-covid condition). Design Living systematic review. Data sources Medline, Embase, CINAHL, PsycInfo, Alli...

www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Expert-elicitation method for non-parametric joint priors using normalizing flows We propose an expert-elicitation method for learning non-parametric joint prior distributions using normalizing flows. Normalizing flows are a class of generative models that enable exact, single-step...

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

Web-browsing patterns reflect and shape mood and mental health - Nature Human Behaviour In four studies, Kelly and Sharot reveal that web-browsing both reflects and affects mental health. Poorer mental health leads to more negative content consumption, which in turn worsens mood. Highlig...

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

<em>British Journal of Health Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library Purpose Examine the development, implementation and evaluation of just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) in behaviour change and evaluate the quality of intervention reporting. Methods A sco...

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 👇