Psychologist & PhD from Stockholm – I write about new solutions for better childhood mental health
New study in JAMA Pediatrics shows an association of screen time and symptoms of depression in adolescents. "They shouln't be looking at their iPhones all the time. It can´t be good for them.", I sometimes catch myself thinking when I watch kids hunched over a screen, sitting besides each other, each seamingly hypnotized by the …
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The Work and Social Adjustment Scale (WSAS) has for many years been a useful and widely appreciated tool to measure functional impairment in adults with various conditions. Now we present a youth and parent version of the WSAS, the WSAS-Y and WSAS-P. This is a project that Prof. David Mataix-Cols from KI and our Clinical …
I like to save my rawdata in csv format (from excel, Stata or other sources), which makes the access easy as well as it is a durable file format that most likely will be relatively unaffected by new versions of software and thus is a good file format for archiving your data. Make sure that …
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In the following example we will fit a mixed model regression analysis. In our design we have time as one independent variable, Responder status as another independent variable and we have a dependent variable, the outcome, that we believe is affected by both time and Responder status. In our model we assume that individual trajectories …
A recent review from the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK shows that self-help methods can be a good alternative for children with different mental health problems. In the light of several reports that point to increasing numbers of children with mental health problems, it appears obvious that children should be …
Cambridge University Press just released a comprehensive book on new interventions for anxiety, OCD and PTSD, Edited by Lara J. Farrell, Griffith University, Queensland , Thomas H. Ollendick, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University , Peter Muris, Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands. Anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are amongst the most prevalent disorders in childhood and cause major suffering and …
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Finally, I have submitted a manuscript that I have been working on for quite a while together with my dear colleagues at CAP Research Centre and the Karolinska. We have developed and evaluated a scale to measure patient adherence in internet-delivered behavioral interventions, meaning a way of measuring how well a patient engages with an …
This tutorial will provide you with 4 straight forward steps on how to create a nice and neat publication-friendly correlation matrix with R Studio and Markdown. It has taken me a lot of time and googling around to figure out how to create the automated, well formatted tables that I wanted for my own manuscripts, …
In a large, 3 year long-term follow up study by Johan Åhlén, Ata Ghaderi and me, we did not find any long-term effects of a school-based intervention aimed to prevent anxiety and depression symptoms. The study included 695 children 8–11 years old from 17 schools in Sweden. The kids were either randomized to the prevention intervention or …
A new study from the Karolinska Institutet shows that patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder who show "sudden gains" during internet CBT treatment yield better treatment effects, comparted to those who did not have sudden gains, or where "gradual gainers". A sudden gain is a significant, large improvement of the patients' symptoms that happens during a short …
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