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May 15, 2025 at 9:07 AM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
One of my PhD students found 7 retracted papers in their #SysReview (~6.3k screening hits).
❤️ #Zotero #RetractionWatch

Reasons:
3x integrity of journal or #PeerReview (Hindawi)
2x errors & updated
1x error & not updated
1x no ethics approval

#ErrorCulture #PublicationEthics #AcademicPublishing
July 8, 2024 at 3:33 PM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
"The authors aim to raise faculty awareness of proper sys review methodologies by offering alternative assignments that enhance student learning outcomes and alleviate the librarian’s teaching burden."

Interesting paper 👇

Back & forth in this discussion about #SysReview is also very interesting!
July 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
Discussed in the preconference workshop:

SPIRIT & CONSORT guidelines (protocol & study reporting)
www.consort-spirit.org

TIDieR (intervention description)
www.bmj.com/content/348/...

And for example for #psychometrics #SysReview
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38980635/

#SPRKrakow2025
Home | consort-spirit.org
www.consort-spirit.org SPIRIT and CONSORT Statements offer a standard way to report trial protocols and findings. This helps authors to report their trials completely and transparently, providing rea...
www.consort-spirit.org
June 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
Quality of Life Research 05-2024
link.springer.com/journal/1113...
#ISOQOL

#HRQL of people w heart failure in #LMICs
rdcu.be/dF2sX
#SysReview

#QOL of people living w mental illness in Africa
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#SysReview #SMI #Multimorbidity

#NightshiftEditor seven issues to go...
Quality of Life Research | Volume 33, issue 5
Volume 33, issue 5 articles listing for Quality of Life Research
link.springer.com
April 29, 2024 at 2:55 PM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
First up, @ptoner.bsky.social presents on developing screening & assessment instruments for young people.

Currently available from this work #SysReview -s on
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
and work on #HRQoL assessment
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#SARN #SubstanceUse #Scotland
Alcohol screening and assessment measures for young people: A systematic review and meta-analysis of validation studies
There is a strong rationale for clinicians to identify risky drinking among young people given the harms caused by alcohol. This systematic review eva…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:47 AM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
Really good idea to accompany the PRISMA-COSMIN #ReportingGuidelines for Outcome Measurement Instruments 2024 with table templates for communication of results!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Guideline
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38980635/

#AcademicPublishing #SysReview #Psychometrics
Guideline for reporting systematic reviews of outcome measurement instruments (OMIs): PRISMA-COSMIN for OMIs 2024 - PubMed
PRISMA-COSMIN for OMIs 2024 consists of two checklists (full reports; abstracts), their corresponding explanation and elaboration documents detailing the rationale and examples for each item, and a da...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
September 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
A #SysReview exploring impacts of community-based interventions for adults with #multimorbidity on clinical and patient-reported outcomes (25 studies):
bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/4/1/...

Quick comparison of identified outcomes with the two central #CoreOutcomeSets 👇

#HRQOL #Psychometrics
Screenshot of text and a table. Chen et al., “The most common patient-centred outcomes were quality of life, satisfaction or patient experience, self-management or self-care, depression or mental health, physical function or exercise capacity, cost-effectiveness, cognitive function, adherence, empowerment and hospitalisations.” The table then presents the outcomes from the core outcome sets and the number of studies in Chen et al. (2026) that report this outcome (max. n=25) (Health-related) Quality of Life 9 Mental Health 4 Mortality Adverse Events 1 Development of New Comorbidity 0 Health-risk Behaviour 0 Adherence to Treatment 2 Health-care Cost (out of pocket) 4 Number of studies based on those reported in Chen et al. (Tables 2 & 3), so it may be that some of the less usual outcomes such as health-care cost were not extracted by the team of the systematic review. On the other hand, “cost” is coded inclusively as not all studies assessed out-of-pocket cost (not relevant in all health care systems). The table also codes which outcomes are drawn from which core outcome set, which was unfortunately difficult to describe - here are the references to the sets: 1 Smith et al. (2018). The Annals of Family Medicine, 16, 132–138. 2 “Intervention” in Vidyasagaran et al. (2024). BMJ Global Health, 9, Article e015120. 3 “Prevention” in Vidyasagaran et al. (2024). BMJ Global Health, 9, Article e015120.
March 11, 2026 at 9:47 AM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
Thread👇 on our #SysReview #MetaAnalysis with thoughts on which types of interventions could be important to evaluate in schools.

Link to paper:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/chi...

Had good discussion w #UniBern Summer Course participants about #PragmaticTrials and universal/targeted interventions.
June 4, 2025 at 9:48 AM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
One of my PhD students found 7 retracted papers in their #SysReview (~6.3k screening hits).
❤️ #Zotero #RetractionWatch

Reasons:
3x integrity of journal or #PeerReview (Hindawi)
2x errors & updated
1x error & not updated
1x no ethics approval

#ErrorCulture #PublicationEthics
November 17, 2024 at 1:46 PM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
#SysReview of all economic evaluations of digital mental health interventions 1997-2018 (N=67):

The majority failed to capture relevant available evidence, comparators, and long-term impact:

#mHealth #eHealth #HealthEconomics
via @Tim_J_Croudace
November 17, 2024 at 12:41 PM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Test Accuracy Studies

QUADAS-3 published
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41698208/

introduction of an 'ideal test accuracy trial' 👇

assessment at estimate rather than study level

introduces a judgment of #RiskOfBias regarding applicability

#Psychometrics #SysReview #RoB
For each synthesis question defined in phase 1, the ideal test accuracy trial that could be conducted to answer this question should be defined. QUADAS-3 provides a generalized framework and design template to prompt and help users to define the ideal test accuracy trial for each synthesis question […]. The ideal test accuracy trial design should minimize the risk of bias and maximize the applicability of the trial to each synthesis question. Whiting et al., in press, Annals of Internal Medicine.
February 19, 2026 at 12:42 PM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
A #SysReview of adverse events reporting in psychotherapy #RCT -s:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

60% of 81 RCTs (since 2007) reported harmful effects.

Based on these data, one can expect adverse events to affect 1/10 (serious adverse events 1/21) patients.

#PsychotherapyResearch
Adverse events in psychotherapy randomized controlled trials: A systematic review
Objective: Although evidence for benefits of psychotherapy is substantial, less is known about potential harm. Therefore, we systematically summarized randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to compile...
www.tandfonline.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
Reminded of this today, since the examiner reports came through:

Andrew Dyer, whom I had the honour of co-supervising at #QUBPsych, has defended his PhD!

This #SysReview offers a first peek at his work on alcohol and #HRQL:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#QUBelfast #DundeeUni
Screenshot of a Tweet by Andrew Dyer (@AndrewDyer10) saying: Very happy to say that on Monday I successfully defended my PhD! Thank you so much to my supervisors Paul Toner, Dr David Curran, & Jan R Boehnke. Thank you to professors Jaime Delgadillo & Martin Dempster for a great viva discussion, & to convenor Pauline Adair #PhDone (some Twitter handles replaced by names) Four attached pictures, top left front of Andrew's PhD; top right text repeating some of the facts and stating the title of the PhD thesis, "Alcohol-related Quality of Life in Young People: Development and Initial Validation of a New Targeted Outcome measure" bottom left, Andrew in front of presentation slides (#SPR2023) looking concentrated at the audience, and with either a pointing or conjuring gesture with his right hand; bottom right, myself, Andrew and Paul Toner in front of Waverly Station, Edinburgh."
January 12, 2024 at 2:10 PM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
In the works since early 2020 w #SysReview, 50 qualitative interviews in 10 countries, Delphi study & consensus meetings.

Links to follow up:

COSMOS set
gh.bmj.com/content/9/8/...

The COSmm set
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29531104/

#GlobalHealth #GlobalMentalHealth
Core outcome sets for trials of interventions to prevent and to treat multimorbidity in adults in low and middle-income countries: the COSMOS study
Introduction The burden of multimorbidity is recognised increasingly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), creating a strong emphasis on the need for effective evidence-based interventions. Cor...
gh.bmj.com
August 22, 2024 at 8:48 AM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
Busy week, not much posted from #RSS2025.

I enjoyed chatting w @rlgrant.bsky.social and am reading his coauthored "Bayesian #MetaAnalysis" which he gave me a copy of 🙇
www.robertgrantstats.co.uk/bma-book.html

[in parallel w
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
for training inspiration]

#SysReview
A book leaning upright on a wooden bench or seat of sorts, sunshine broken up by shades (leaves?) above. In the background some green and flowers are vaguely visible. The top of a "Royal Statistical Society" conference name tag sticks out of it. The book's cover is largely black, sports the title "Bayesian Meta-Analysis - A practical introduction" by Robert Grant and Gian Luca Di Tanna. The lower half shows a picture with a beige background on top of which there are what looks like line or ink lines indicating a wild overlay of continuous distribution curves, close to symmetric but with a bit of positive skew. It is identified as a work in acrylic and coffee on card by Robert Grant
September 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
We investigated how QoL/ #HRQoL instruments were used in substance and behavioural addictions. We found similar issues as this team:
variety of measures, lack of theory, and issues around methodological quality:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#SysReview #Psychometrics
@ptoner.bsky.social
A systematic review of quality of life and health‐related quality of life as outcomes in substance and behavioural addictions
Issues Consideration of an individual's quality of life (QoL) can benefit assessment and treatment of addictive disorders, however, uncertainty remains over operationalisation of the construct as an.....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
This mirrors findings from our broader #SysReview of #HRQL as an outcome in substance and behavioural addictions
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37439397/
A systematic review of quality of life and health-related quality of life as outcomes in substance and behavioural addictions - PubMed
Many instruments have been utilised. However, a significant proportion of studies applied a small number of instruments with minimal high-quality validation evidence supporting their use within addict...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
August 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
A #SysReview of quality of life & #HRQoL instruments in #RCTs of interventions for adults with alcohol use disorder
www.jsatjournal.com/article/S294...

Interesting: Although focused on the most frequently used instruments, few studies report psychometric properties.

#Psychometrics #Validity
Quality of life assessment instruments used in clinical trials for alcohol use disorder: A systematic review
Quality of life (QoL) measures are increasingly used as outcome indicators in both pharmacological and non-pharmacological intervention trials for alcohol use disorder (AUD). However, there is no curr...
www.jsatjournal.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
This #SysReview suggests that medical #crowdfunding is less a tool for mitigating health disparities, but rather reproduces #HealthInequity (barriers to #HealthCare access meet lack of financial resources and capacity to run campaigns):
equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

#GlobalHealth
Health inequities in medical crowdfunding: a systematic review - International Journal for Equity in Health
Background Medical crowdfunding has emerged as a popular strategy to offset healthcare expenses in contexts of limited insurance coverage. While often framed as a democratizing and accessible financia...
equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com
July 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
We evaluated whether universal, school-based interventions improve emotional outcomes across 40 studies (N=35,559) for anxiety outcomes, 50 studies (N=49,418) for depression & 15 studies (N=21,473) for #internalising.

🧵 by @danhayesphd.bsky.social on our #SysReview & #MetaAnalysis 👇

#MentalHealth
danhayesphd.bsky.social Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Jun 2
🚨 Paper alert 🚨 There’s a lot of debate at the moment around universal, interventions in schools. A thread 🧵

Our new meta-analysis, published today, shows they can work in reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/chi...

Findings discussed more below…
Frontiers | Universal, school-based, interventions to improve emotional outcomes in children and young people: a systematic review and meta-analysis
IntroductionThere is debate into the impact of universal, school-based interventions to improve emotional outcomes. Previous reviews have only focused on anx...
www.frontiersin.org
June 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
Quality of Life Research 05-2024

#ISOQOL

#HRQL of people w heart failure in #LMICs

#SysReview

#QOL of people living w mental illness in Africa

#SysReview #SMI #Multimorbidity
November 17, 2024 at 1:45 PM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
Quality of Life Research 03-2024
incl.

A #SysReview of #HRQL in emergency laparotomy #RCTs

comparison of @promisNIH 29/global physical and #MentalHealth scores

and much more 😊📰📚
November 17, 2024 at 1:44 PM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
A #SysReview (16 studies) of #multimorbidity patterns in #PrimaryCare electronic health records shows #MentalIllness and cardiovascular patterns in all studies, and patterns relating to musculoskeletal, respiratory, and gastrointestinal diseases in some
November 17, 2024 at 1:44 PM
jrboehnke.bsky.social
Engaging with #ISOQOL conference content?

How about reading the 2022 article of the year finalists? 👇

1)
#PhysicalActivity

2)
#Feedback #SysReview

3)
#AgeQualiDe #SocialSupport

#HRQL
@ISOQOL @BusyBL
November 17, 2024 at 1:41 PM