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Improving Adherence and Clinical Outcomes in Self-Guided Internet Treatment for Anxiety and Depression: A 12-Month Follow-Up of a Randomised Controlled Trial
Background: A recent paper reported the outcomes of a study examining a new self-guided internet-delivered treatment, the Wellbeing Course, for symptoms of anxiety or depression. This study found the intervention resulted in significant symptom reductions. It also found that automated emails increased treatment completion and clinical improvements in a subsample with elevated anxiety and depression. Aims: To examine the clinical outcomes and the effect of automated emails at 12 months post-treatment. Method: Participants, who were randomly allocated to a Treatment Plus Automated Emails Group (TEG; n = 100), a standard Treatment Group (TG; n = 106) or delayed-treatment Waitlist Control Group (Control; n = 51), were followed up at 12 months post-treatment. Eighty-one percent, 78% and 87% of participants in the TEG, TG and treated Waitlist Control Group provided symptom data at 12-month follow-up, respectively. The primary outcome measures were the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 Item Scale (PHQ-9) and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 Item Scale (GAD-7).Results: Significant improvements in symptoms of anxiety and depression were observed over time in both the TEG and TG (Fs >69, ps .05), and were associated with large effect sizes. No statistically significant differences in symptoms were found between the TEG and TG at post-treatment, 3-month or 12-month follow-up. Previously reported symptom differences between TEG and TG participants with comorbid symptoms were no longer present at 12-month follow-up (ps >.70).Conclusions: The overall benefits of the Wellbeing Course were sustained at 12-month follow-up. Although automated emails facilitated Course completion and reductions in symptoms for participants with comorbid anxiety and depression from pre-post treatment, these differences were no longer observed at 12-month follow-up. The results indicate that automated emails promote more rapid treatment response for people with elevated and comorbid symptoms, but may not improve longer term outcomes
Configuration interaction calculation of hyperfine and P,T-odd constants on ^{207}PbO excited states for the electron EDM experiments
We report first configuration interaction calculations of hyperfine constants
A_\parallel and the effective electric field W_d acting on the electric dipole
moment of the electron, in two excited electronic states of ^{207}PbO. The
obtained hyperfine constants, A_\parallel = -3826 MHz for the a(1) state and
A_\parallel = 4887 MHz for the B(1) state, are in very good agreement with the
experimental data, -4113 MHz and 5000 \pm 200 MHz, respectively. We find W_d =
-(6.1 ^{+1.8}_{-0.6}) 10^{24} Hz/(e cm) for a(1), and W_d = (8.0 \pm 1.6)
10^{24} Hz/(e cm) for B(1). The obtained values are analyzed and compared to
recent relativistic coupled cluster results and a semiempirical estimate of W_d
for the a(1) state.Comment: 6 pages, REVTeX4 style, submitted to Pthys.Rev.
Resonant photoemission at the absorption edge of Mn and Ti and electronic structure of 1T-MnTiSe
Resonant valence-band X-ray photoelectron spectra (ResPES) excited near
2p core level energies, 2p X-ray photoelectron spectra (XPS) and
L X-ray absorption spectra (XAS) of Ti and Mn in single crystal of
1T-MnTiSe were studied for the first time. The ionic-covalent character
of bonds formed by Mn atoms with the neighboring Se atoms in the octahedral
coordination is established. From the XPS and XAS measurements compared with
results of atomic multiplet calculations of Ti and Mn L XAS it is found
that Ti atoms are in ionic state of 4+ and Mn atoms are in the state of 2+. In
ResPES of MnTiSe excited near Ti 2p and Mn 2p
absorption edges the Ti 3d and Mn 3d bands at binding energies just below the
Fermi level are observed. According to band structure calculations
E the Ti 3d states are localized in the vicinity of
point and the Mn 3d states are localized along the direction
K--M in the Brillouin zone of the crystal.Comment: 18 pages (preprint), 9 figure
Diffusion coefficient when fine aerosol media propagate in a confined volume
An experimental estimation is reported of the value of the effective diffusion coefficient during aerosol deposition in a confined volume. Aerosol propagation regularities have experimentally been studied in a chamber of a complex configuration with different placement of aerosol generators
Electric dipole moment of the electron in YbF molecule
Ab initio calculation of the hyperfine, P-odd, and P,T-odd constants for the
YbF molecule was performed with the help of the recently developed technique,
which allows to take into account correlations and polarization in the
outercore region. The ground state electronic wave function of the YbF molecule
is found with the help of the Relativistic Effective Core Potential method
followed by the restoration of molecular four-component spinors in the core
region of ytterbium in the framework of a non-variational procedure. Core
polarization effects are included with the help of the atomic Many Body
Perturbation Theory for Yb atom. For the isotropic hyperfine constant A,
accuracy of our calculation is about 3% as compared to the experimental datum.
The dipole constant Ad (which is much smaller in magnitude), though better than
in all previous calculations, is still underestimated by almost 23%. Being
corrected within a semiempirical approach for a perturbation of 4f-shell in the
core of Yb due to the bond making, this error is reduced to 8%. Our value for
the effective electric field on the unpaired electron is 4.9 a.u.=2.5E+10 V/cm.Comment: 7 pages, REVTE
Inclusive quasi-elastic electron-nucleus scattering
This article presents a review of the field of inclusive quasi-elastic
electron-nucleus scattering. It discusses the approach used to measure the data
and includes a compilation of data available in numerical form. The theoretical
approaches used to interpret the data are presented. A number of results
obtained from the comparison between experiment and calculation are then
reviewed. The analogies and differences to other fields of physics exploiting
quasi-elastic scattering from composite systems are pointed out.Comment: Accepted for publication in Reviews of Modern Physic
Towards the electron EDM search. Theoretical study of PbF
We report ab initio relativistic correlation calculations of potential curves
and spectroscopic constants for four lowest-lying electronic states of the lead
monofluoride. We also calculated parameters of the spin-rotational Hamiltonian
for the ground and the first excited states including P,T-odd and P-odd terms.
In particular, we have obtained hyperfine constants of the Pb nucleus.
For the state MHz, MHz and for
the A MHz, MHz. Our values of
the ground state hyperfine constants are in good agreement with the previous
theoretical studies. We discuss and explain seeming disagreement in the sign of
the constant with the recent experimental data. The effective
electric field on the electron , which is important for the planned
experiment to search for the electric dipole moment of the electron, is found
to be 3.3 * 10^{10} V/cm
Forward coherent -meson photoproduction from deuterons near threshold
Differential cross sections and decay asymmetries for coherent -meson
photoproduction from deuterons were measured for the first time at forward
angles using linearly polarized photons at = 1.5-2.4 GeV. This
reaction offers a unique way to directly access natural-parity Pomeron dynamics
and gluon exchange at low energies. The cross sections at zero degrees increase
with increasing photon energy. The decay asymmetries demonstrate a complete
dominance of natural-parity exchange processes, showing that isovector
unnatural-parity -meson exchange is small. Nevertheless the deduced cross
sections of -mesons from nucleons contributed by isoscalar t-channel
exchange processes are not well described by the conventional Pomeron model.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures. Final published versio
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