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SEED: a tool for disseminating systematic review data into Wikipedia (2017)
Journal Article
Schmidt, L., Friedel, J., & Adams, C. E. (in press). SEED: a tool for disseminating systematic review data into Wikipedia. Systematic Reviews, 6, Article 206. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-017-0607-3

Wikipedia, the free-content online encyclopaedia, contains many heavily accessed pages relating to healthcare. Cochrane systematic reviews contain much high-grade evidence but dissemination into Wikipedia has been slow. New skills are needed to both... Read More about SEED: a tool for disseminating systematic review data into Wikipedia.

Monitoring oral health of people in Early Intervention for Psychosis (EIP) teams: the extended Three Shires randomised trial (2017)
Journal Article
Adams, C. E., Wells, N. C., Clifton, A., Jones, H., Simpson, J., Tosh, G., …Aggarwal, V. R. (2018). Monitoring oral health of people in Early Intervention for Psychosis (EIP) teams: the extended Three Shires randomised trial. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 77, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2017.10.005

Background: The British Society for Disability and Oral Health guidelines made recommendations for oral health care for people with mental health problems, including providing oral health advice, support, promotion and education. The effectiveness of... Read More about Monitoring oral health of people in Early Intervention for Psychosis (EIP) teams: the extended Three Shires randomised trial.

Study-based registers of randomized controlled trials: starting a systematic review with data extraction or meta-analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Shokraneh, F., & Adams, C. E. (2017). Study-based registers of randomized controlled trials: starting a systematic review with data extraction or meta-analysis. Bioimpacts, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.15171/bi.2017.25

Introduction: Despite years of use of study-based registers for storing reports of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), the methodology used in developing such registers/databases has not been documented. Such registers are integral to the process of... Read More about Study-based registers of randomized controlled trials: starting a systematic review with data extraction or meta-analysis.

Increasing value and reducing waste in data extraction for systematic reviews: tracking data in data extraction forms (2017)
Journal Article
Shokraneh, F., & Adams, C. E. (2017). Increasing value and reducing waste in data extraction for systematic reviews: tracking data in data extraction forms. Systematic Reviews, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-017-0546-z

Data extraction is one of the most time-consuming tasks in performing a systematic review. Extraction is often onto some sort of form. Sharing completed forms can be used to check quality and accuracy of extraction or for re-cycling data to other res... Read More about Increasing value and reducing waste in data extraction for systematic reviews: tracking data in data extraction forms.

Oral Medication for Agitation of Psychiatric Origin: A Scoping Review of Randomized Controlled Trials (2017)
Journal Article
Mullinax, S., Shokraneh, F., Wilson, M. P., & Adams, C. E. (2017). Oral Medication for Agitation of Psychiatric Origin: A Scoping Review of Randomized Controlled Trials. Journal of Emergency Medicine, 53(4), 524-529. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jemermed.2017.04.026

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. Background Understanding more about the efficacy and safety of oral second-generation antipsychotic medications in reducing the symptoms of acute agitation could improve the treatment of psychiatric emergencies. Objective The obj... Read More about Oral Medication for Agitation of Psychiatric Origin: A Scoping Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.

Short text messages to encourage adherence to medication and follow-up for people with psychosis (Mobile.Net): randomized controlled trial in Finland (2017)
Journal Article
Välimäki, M., Kannisto, K. A., Vahlberg, T., Hätönen, H., & Adams, C. E. (2017). Short text messages to encourage adherence to medication and follow-up for people with psychosis (Mobile.Net): randomized controlled trial in Finland. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19(7), Article e245. https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.7028

Background: A text messaging service (short message service [SMS]) has the potential to target large groups of people with long-term illnesses such as serious mental disorders, who may have difficulty with treatment adherence. Robust research on the... Read More about Short text messages to encourage adherence to medication and follow-up for people with psychosis (Mobile.Net): randomized controlled trial in Finland.

Study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of user-driven intervention to prevent aggressive events in psychiatric services (2017)
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Välimäki, M., Yang, M., Normand, S., Lorig, K. R., Anttila, M., Lantta, T., …Adams, C. E. (2017). Study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of user-driven intervention to prevent aggressive events in psychiatric services. BMC Psychiatry, 17(1), Article 123. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-017-1266-6

Background People admitted to psychiatric hospitals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia may display behavioural problems. These may require management approaches such as use of coercive practices, which impact the well-being of staff members, visiti... Read More about Study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of user-driven intervention to prevent aggressive events in psychiatric services.

Factors Associated With Dropout During Recruitment and Follow-Up Periods of a mHealth-Based Randomized Controlled Trial for Mobile.Net to Encourage Treatment Adherence for People With Serious Mental Health Problems (2017)
Journal Article
Kannisto, K. A., Korhonen, J., Adams, C. E., Koivunen, M. H., Vahlberg, T., & Välimäki, M. A. (2017). Factors Associated With Dropout During Recruitment and Follow-Up Periods of a mHealth-Based Randomized Controlled Trial for Mobile.Net to Encourage Treatment Adherence for People With Serious Mental Health Problems. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19(2), Article e46. https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.6417

Background: Clinical trials are the gold standard of evidence-based practice. Still many papers inadequately report methodology in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), particularly for mHealth interventions for people with serious mental health probl... Read More about Factors Associated With Dropout During Recruitment and Follow-Up Periods of a mHealth-Based Randomized Controlled Trial for Mobile.Net to Encourage Treatment Adherence for People With Serious Mental Health Problems.

RevManHAL: towards automatic text generation in systematic reviews (2017)
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Torres Torres, M., & Adams, C. E. (2017). RevManHAL: towards automatic text generation in systematic reviews. Systematic Reviews, 6(1), Article 27. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-017-0421-y

Background: Systematic reviews are a key part of healthcare evaluation. They involve important painstaking but repetitive work. A major producer of systematic reviews, the Cochrane Collaboration, employs Review Manager (RevMan) programme—a software w... Read More about RevManHAL: towards automatic text generation in systematic reviews.

A survey of eMedia-delivered interventions for schizophrenia used in randomized controlled trials (2017)
Journal Article
Naeem, F., Munschi, T., Xiang, S., Yang, M., Shokraneh, F., Syed, Y., …Farooq, S. (2017). A survey of eMedia-delivered interventions for schizophrenia used in randomized controlled trials. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 13, 233-243. https://doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S115897

Background: Randomized trials evaluating electronic Media (eMedia) delivery of interventions are increasingly frequent in mental health. Although a number of reviews have reported efficacy of these interventions, none has reviewed the type of eMedia... Read More about A survey of eMedia-delivered interventions for schizophrenia used in randomized controlled trials.

Twittering on about mental health: is it worth the effort? (2017)
Journal Article
Jayaram, M., Moran, L., & Adams, C. (2017). Twittering on about mental health: is it worth the effort?. Evidence-Based Mental Health, 20(1), https://doi.org/10.1136/eb-2016-102580

The medical community disseminates information increasingly using social media. Randomised controlled trials are being conducted in this area to evaluate effectiveness of social media with mixed results so far, but more trials are likely to be publis... Read More about Twittering on about mental health: is it worth the effort?.