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    The short and long-term efficacy of nurse-led interventions for improving blood pressure control in people with hypertension in primary care settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Previous systematic reviews suggest that nurse-led interventions improve short-term blood pressure (BP) control for people with hypertension. However, the long-term effects, adverse events, and appropriate tar...

    Masami Ito, Aran Tajika, Rie Toyomoto, Hissei Imai, Masatsugu Sakata in BMC Primary Care (2024)

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    Utility of RAND/UCLA appropriateness method in validating multiple-choice questions on ECG

    This study aimed to investigate the utility of the RAND/UCLA appropriateness method (RAM) in validating expert consensus-based multiple-choice questions (MCQs) on electrocardiogram (ECG).

    Tomohiro Kaga, Shinji Inaba, Yukari Shikano, Yasuyuki Watanabe in BMC Medical Education (2024)

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    Harnessing AI to Optimize Thought Records and Facilitate Cognitive Restructuring in Smartphone CBT: An Exploratory Study

    Effective cognitive restructuring (CR) requires identification of automatic thoughts that underlie experienced emotions. However, accurate recording of thoughts and emotions is challenging when CR is provided ...

    Toshi A. Furukawa, Susumu Iwata, Masaru Horikoshi in Cognitive Therapy and Research (2023)

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    Healthy Campus Trial: a multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) fully factorial trial to optimize the smartphone cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) app for mental health promotion among university students: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

    Youth in general and college life in particular are characterized by new educational, vocational, and interpersonal challenges, opportunities, and substantial stress. It is estimated that 30–50% of university ...

    Teruhisa Uwatoko, Yan Luo, Masatsugu Sakata, Daisuke Kobayashi, Yu Sakagami in Trials (2018)