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Beyond the trial: A systematic review of real-world uptake and engagement with digital self-help interventions for depression, low mood, or anxiety
Background: Digital self-help interventions (including online or computerized programs and apps) for common mental health issues have been shown to be appealing, engaging, and efficacious in randomized controlled trials. They show potential for improving access to therapy and improving population mental health. However, their use in the real world, that is, as implemented (disseminated) outside of research settings, may differ from that reported in trials, and implementation data are seldom reported.
Objective: We aimed to review peer-reviewed articles reporting user uptake and/or ongoing use, retention, or completion data (hereafter ‘usage data’ or, for brevity, ‘engagement’) from implemented pure self-help (unguided) digital interventions for depression, anxiety, or the enhancement of mood.
Methods: We conducted a systematic search of the Scopus, Embase, MEDLINE, and PsychINFO databases for studies reporting user uptake and/or usage data from implemented digital self-help interventions for the treatment or prevention of depression or anxiety, or the enhancement of mood, from 2002 to 2017. Additionally, we screened the reference lists of included articles, citations of these articles, and the titles of articles published in Internet Interventions, Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), and JMIR Mental Health since their inception. We extracted data indicating the number of registrations or downloads and usage of interventions.
Results: After the removal of duplicates, 970 papers were identified, of which ten met the inclusion criteria. Hand-searching identified one additional article. The included articles reported on seven publically available interventions. There was little consistency in the measures reported. The number of registrants or downloads ranged widely, from eight to over 40,000 per month. From 21% to 88% of users engaged in at least minimal use (e.g. used the intervention at least once or completed one module or assessment), while 7–42% engaged in moderate use (completing between 40% and 60% of modular fixed-length programs or continuing to use apps after four weeks). Indications of completion or sustained use (completion of all modules or the last assessment or continuing to use apps after six weeks or more) varied from 0.5% to 28.6%.
Conclusions: Available data suggest that uptake and engagement vary widely among the handful of implemented digital self-help apps and programs which have reported this, and that usage may vary from that reported in trials. Implementation data should be routinely gathered and reported to facilitate improved uptake and engagement, arguably among the major challenges in digital health
Radio Galaxy Zoo: Knowledge Transfer Using Rotationally Invariant Self-Organising Maps
With the advent of large scale surveys the manual analysis and classification
of individual radio source morphologies is rendered impossible as existing
approaches do not scale. The analysis of complex morphological features in the
spatial domain is a particularly important task. Here we discuss the challenges
of transferring crowdsourced labels obtained from the Radio Galaxy Zoo project
and introduce a proper transfer mechanism via quantile random forest
regression. By using parallelized rotation and flipping invariant Kohonen-maps,
image cubes of Radio Galaxy Zoo selected galaxies formed from the FIRST radio
continuum and WISE infrared all sky surveys are first projected down to a
two-dimensional embedding in an unsupervised way. This embedding can be seen as
a discretised space of shapes with the coordinates reflecting morphological
features as expressed by the automatically derived prototypes. We find that
these prototypes have reconstructed physically meaningful processes across two
channel images at radio and infrared wavelengths in an unsupervised manner. In
the second step, images are compared with those prototypes to create a
heat-map, which is the morphological fingerprint of each object and the basis
for transferring the user generated labels. These heat-maps have reduced the
feature space by a factor of 248 and are able to be used as the basis for
subsequent ML methods. Using an ensemble of decision trees we achieve upwards
of 85.7% and 80.7% accuracy when predicting the number of components and peaks
in an image, respectively, using these heat-maps. We also question the
currently used discrete classification schema and introduce a continuous scale
that better reflects the uncertainty in transition between two classes, caused
by sensitivity and resolution limits
Knee joint neuromuscular activation performance during muscle damage and superimposed fatigue
This study examined the concurrent effects of exercise-induced muscle damage and superimposed acute fatigue on the neuromuscular activation performance of the knee flexors of nine males (age: 26.7 ± 6.1yrs; height 1.81 ± 0.05m; body mass 81.2 ± 11.7kg [mean ± SD]). Measures were obtained during three experimental conditions: (i) FAT-EEVID, involving acute fatiguing exercise performed on each assessment occasion plus a single episode of eccentric exercise performed on the first occasion and after the fatigue trial; (ii) FAT, involving the fatiguing exercise only and; (iii) CON consisting of no exercise. Assessments were performed prior to (pre) and at lh, 24h, 48h, 72h, and 168h relative to the eccentric exercise. Repeated-measures ANOVAs showed that muscle damage within the FAT-EEVID condition elicited reductions of up to 38%, 24%) and 65%> in volitional peak force, electromechanical delay and rate of force development compared to baseline and controls, respectively (F[io, 80] = 2.3 to 4.6; p to 30.7%>) following acute fatigue (Fp; i6] = 4.3 to 9.1; p ; Fp, iq = 3.9; p <0.05). The safeguarding of evoked muscle activation capability despite compromised volitional performance might reveal aspects of capabilities for emergency and protective responses during episodes of fatigue and antecedent muscle damaging exercise
Star formation rate indicators in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) first data release provides a database of
106000 unique galaxies in the main galaxy sample with measured spectra. A
sample of star-forming (SF) galaxies are identified from among the 3079 of
these having 1.4 GHz luminosities from FIRST, by using optical spectral
diagnostics. Using 1.4 GHz luminosities as a reference star formation rate
(SFR) estimator insensitive to obscuration effects, the SFRs derived from the
measured SDSS Halpha, [OII] and u-band luminosities, as well as far-infrared
luminosities from IRAS, are compared. It is established that straightforward
corrections for obscuration and aperture effects reliably bring the SDSS
emission line and photometric SFR estimates into agreement with those at 1.4
GHz, although considerable scatter (~60%) remains in the relations. It thus
appears feasible to perform detailed investigations of star formation for large
and varied samples of SF galaxies through the available spectroscopic and
photometric measurements from the SDSS. We provide herein exact prescriptions
for determining the SFR for SDSS galaxies. The expected strong correlation
between [OII] and Halpha line fluxes for SF galaxies is seen, but with a median
line flux ratio F_[OII]/F_Halpha=0.23, about a factor of two smaller than that
found in the sample of Kennicutt (1992). This correlation, used in deriving the
[OII] SFRs, is consistent with the luminosity-dependent relation found by
Jansen et al. (2001). The median obscuration for the SDSS SF systems is found
to be A_Halpha=1.2 mag, while for the radio detected sample the median
obscuration is notably higher, 1.6 mag, and with a broader distribution.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 40 pages, 26 figure
Orbit Selection for the Proposed Lynx Observatory Mission
The Advanced Concepts Office design team performed several analyses and trades in support of orbit selection for the proposed Lynx mission, an x-ray observatory being submitted to the Astro2020 Decadal Survey. Though the descriptions in this Technical Memorandum (TM) focus on the Lynx mission, the approach and process for selecting the final orbit is applicable to a variety of proposed science and exploration missions. To select the best orbit for the Lynx science, mission designers assembled a team of subsystem and discipline experts, in addition to mission analysts, to evaluate several candidate orbits. These discipline experts included members of the science and instrument team, power and avionics, thermal, propulsion, and environments. The goal was to clearly show the benefits and weaknesses of each orbit in the trade space and provide sound justification for the final selection. Discipline experts conducted trades and evaluated the results using a variety of methods including engineering judgement, rough estimates, and detailed calculations, and rolled the results into a final grade using a weighted grading method. The orbit options could then be ranked. The principal investigator (PI) for the mission, along with the science team, was given the task of final orbit selection. The result of the trades indicated that a halo orbit about the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (SE-L2), similar to the planned orbit for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), was the best choice for the Lynx mission. Details of how the team arrived at this selection are below
Microjansky radio sources in DC0107-46 (Abell 2877)
The cluster DC0107-46 (Abell 2877) lies within the Phoenix Deep Survey, made
at 1.4 GHz with the Australia Telescope Compact Array. Of 89 known optical
cluster members, 70 lie within the radio survey area. Of these 70 galaxies, 15
(21%) are detected, with luminosities as faint as 10^20 W/Hz. Spectroscopic
observations are available for 14/15 of the radio-detected cluster galaxies.
Six galaxies show only absorption features and are typical low-luminosity AGN
radio sources. One galaxy hosts a Seyfert 2 nucleus, two are star-forming
galaxies, and the remaining five may be star-forming galaxies, AGNs, or both.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, Accepted by ApJS (v128n2p JUN 2000 issue
The nuclear radio structure of X-ray bright AGN
The physical nature of the X-ray/radio correlation of AGN is still an
unsolved question. High angular resolution observations are necessary to
disentangle the associated energy dynamics into nuclear and stellar components.
We present MERLIN/EVN 18cm observations of 13 X-raying AGN. The sample consists
of Seyfert 1, Narrow Line Seyfert 1, and LINER-like galaxies. We find that for
all objects the radio emission is unresolved and that the radio luminosities
and brightness temperatures are too high for star formation to play an
important role. This indicates that the radio emission in these sources is
closely connected to processes that occur in the vicinity of the central
massive black hole, also where the X-ray emission is believed to originate in.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to "The Universe under the Microscope -
Astrophysics at High Angular Resolution", Bad Honnef, German
The nuclear radio structure of X-ray bright AGN
The physical nature of the X-ray/radio correlation of AGN is still an
unsolved question. High angular resolution observations are necessary to
disentangle the associated energy dynamics into nuclear and stellar components.
We present MERLIN/EVN 18cm observations of 13 X-raying AGN. The sample consists
of Seyfert 1, Narrow Line Seyfert 1, and LINER-like galaxies. We find that for
all objects the radio emission is unresolved and that the radio luminosities
and brightness temperatures are too high for star formation to play an
important role. This indicates that the radio emission in these sources is
closely connected to processes that occur in the vicinity of the central
massive black hole, also where the X-ray emission is believed to originate in.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to "The Universe under the Microscope -
Astrophysics at High Angular Resolution", Bad Honnef, German
The nuclear radio structure of X-ray bright AGN
The physical nature of the X-ray/radio correlation of AGN is still an
unsolved question. High angular resolution observations are necessary to
disentangle the associated energy dynamics into nuclear and stellar components.
We present MERLIN/EVN 18cm observations of 13 X-raying AGN. The sample consists
of Seyfert 1, Narrow Line Seyfert 1, and LINER-like galaxies. We find that for
all objects the radio emission is unresolved and that the radio luminosities
and brightness temperatures are too high for star formation to play an
important role. This indicates that the radio emission in these sources is
closely connected to processes that occur in the vicinity of the central
massive black hole, also where the X-ray emission is believed to originate in.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to "The Universe under the Microscope -
Astrophysics at High Angular Resolution", Bad Honnef, German
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