BACKGROUND Depression and anxiety are common complications following stroke. Symptoms could be treatable with psychological therapy, but there is little research on its efficacy. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate (1) the acceptability and feasibility of computerized cognitive behavioral therapy (cCBT) to treat symptoms of depression and anxiety and (2) a trial design for com...

Community based interventions increase knowledge scores and also have an impact of sexual behaviours with regard to HIV. However the problem remains as to how best to scale up these interventions and how best to overcome real or perceived barriers to their uptake. Community based interventions have multiple components and some will be more difficult to widen out than others. Those that involve ...

an earlier overview of systematic reviews and a subsequent editorial on single-component versus multifaceted interventions to promote knowledge translation (kt) highlight complex issues in implementation science. in this supplemented commentary, further aspects are in focus; we propose examples from (kt) studies probing the issue of single interventions. a main point is that defining what is a ...

Health concerns are common reasons for wanting to quit smoking among smokers with mental illnesses. Motivational interventions have used feedback from a carbon monoxide monitor to increase awareness of health concerns, but this device is not commonly available. Whether brief motivational interventions can be effective without this feedback is unknown. Using a randomized controlled trial, this s...

With an estimated 90 percent or more of alcohol use disorders going untreated (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 2012), the search for interventions that easily, effectively, and economi­ cally reach more people has become a priority. The landmark 1990 report, Broadening the Base of Treatment for Alcohol Problems (Institute of Medicine 1990), refocused alcohol treatment ...

A huge amount of rough data is available in companies on past maintenance activities as a result of the implementation of CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System). In that context, we focus on an experience feedback system dedicated to maintenance, allowing the capitalization of past interventions by means of a formal knowledge representation language, and the extraction from these int...

o bjectives: various methods have been introduced for evaluation of tooth movement in orthodontics. the challenge is to adopt the most accurate and most beneficial method for patients. this study was designed to introduce analysis of digital photographs with auto- cad software as a method to evaluate tooth movement and assess the reliability of this method. mat erials and methods : eighteen pat...

background: to determine the prevalence of incidental findings on brain ct scan in mild head trauma patients. methods: from november 2005 to april 2006, we evaluated 732 ct scans of cases with mild head trauma (glasgow coma scale score of thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen), whom referred to our university affiliated hospital. in this study, we evaluated incidental findings on brain ct of our pati...

Background New technologies can profoundly change the way we understand psychiatric pathologies and addictive disorders. New concepts are emerging with the development of more accurate means of collecting live data, computerized questionnaires, and the use of passive data. Digital phenotyping, a paradigmatic example, refers to the use of computerized measurement tools to capture the characteris...