A starting point for evaluating the effectiveness of treatments should be to identify evidence gaps. Furthermore, such evaluations should consider the perspectives of patients, clinicians and carers to ensure relevance and potentially influence future research initiatives. Our approach, inspired by the James Lind Alliance methods, involved three steps.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To describe the results of a mapping review exploring the coverage of unwanted treatment effects in systematic reviews of the effects of various treatments for moderate to severe depression in children and adolescents.
Setting: Any context or service providing treatment for depression, including interventions delivered in local communities and school settings, as well as services provided in primary or specialist care.
Participants: Children and young people with moderate to severe depression (<18 years).
This study evaluated whether music-induced aesthetic "chill" responses, which typically correspond to peak emotional experiences, can be objectively monitored by degree of pupillary dilation. Participants listened to self-chosen songs versus control songs chosen by other participants. The experiment included an active condition where participants made key presses to indicate when experiencing chills and a passive condition (without key presses).
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