Thanks all for your suggestions!
I made it to Smoke's (very nice and quiet, very good cheese texture) and was able to get one of the Shawarma + Poutine mixes.
Too much to eat, too little time.
Has probably been 13 years since I was last in #Ottawa, can only say: I liked it again a lot! ❤️
@ottaross @wakejagr @johnefrancis @WhippoorwillSong @dmaonR @WTL
#SPROttawa2024
Happy & surprised to hear that my SPR #PeerReview webinar is still being used for postgraduate training by some in the community 😅
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoGzjSEJ0Jk
I hasten to add:
I have developed & held this over the last 6yrs, so if you have a channel, more than happy to update! 😅
Giorgio Tasca mentions in his #SPROttawa2024 presentation that the Psychotherapy Practice Research Network offers a unique opportunity to Canadian and American therapists and patients to improve #MentalHealth care through research:
Giorgio Tasca, Gary Burlingame & Bernhard Strauss highlight in their session that #GroupTherapy is undervalued compared to its demonstrated effectiveness.
Joint collaboration on this informational resource
https://evidencebasedgrouptherapy.org/
Very happy to see this paper published
https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-024-18961-5
Inspired by a seminal study in medicine* we piloted methodology to investigate researcher #DecisionMaking & accepting industry funding.
#ConflictOfInterest #PreRegistered
* pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20841534/
The process of getting this paper to the right audience and out there, took a while.
Using this in workshops usually helps people to bond -- Fellow researchers, and especially #ECRs, you/we are not alone! 😉
Background It is well established that the tobacco industry used research funding as a deliberate tactic to subvert science. There has been little wider attention to how researchers think about accepting industry funding. We developed, then tested, hypotheses about two psychological constructs, namely, entitlement and conflict of interest contrarianism (CoI-C) among alcohol researchers who had previously received industry funding. Methods A mixed-methods pilot study involved construct and instrument development, followed by an online survey and nested 3-arm randomised trial. We randomly allocated alcohol industry funding recipients to one of three conditions. In two experimental conditions we asked participants questions to remind them (and thus increase the salience) of their sense of entitlement or CoI-C. We compared these groups with a control group who did not receive any reminder. The outcome was a composite measure of openness to working with the alcohol industry. Results 133 researchers were randomised of whom 79 completed the experiment. The posterior distribution over effect estimates revealed that there was a 94.8% probability that reminding researchers of their CoI-C led them to self-report being more receptive to industry funding, whereas the probability was 68.1% that reminding them of their sense of entitlement did so. Biomedical researchers reported being more open to working with industry than did psychosocial researchers. Conclusion Holding contrarian views on conflict of interest could make researchers more open to working with industry. This study shows how it is possible to study researcher decision-making using quantitative experimental methods.
Strong interest in the #SPROttawa2024 structured discussion on
"Going beyond quantitative routine outcome monitoring in real world settings"
The discussion focuses quickly on #MachineLearning and AI, especially on extracting features from video recordings and inferring psychological states from them.
Very cool methodology with several practical advantages, but it looks like an interesting resurrection of pre-cognitive turn behavioural paradigms.
Interesting points in Andrés Roussos' presidential address at #SPROttawa2024:
Formal definitions of what is / isn't digital psychotherapy need to be advanced.
More qualitative research needed to develop ethical criteria for engagement with AI in Psychotherapy and #PsychotherapyResearch.
Don't repeat the biases of the analogue world.
How to empower empathy in digital psychotherapy?
Develop real #MentalHealth technology, not placebo tech acting as a distractor from access to psychotherapy.
#SPROttawa2024 here we come
Inspired by a structured discussion from last year, @milahall.bsky.social & I will explore in our workshop what an equitable #OpenAccess publishing model in #PsychotherapyResearch could look like.
We are humbled by it being apparently fully booked and look forward to a constructive atmosphere
How about an intro read about costs co-authored by @brembs whose work we immensely benefitted from in our preparation:
https://f1000research.com/articles/10-20
Any #Poutine suggestions for #Ottawa?
I appreciate, it's not the place of origin, but it is as close as I'll get to it this trip to #SPROttawa2024
Musical Poutine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eUnujdKdHw
It's the time for those T-Shirts again!
I am very grateful for the organisers of #SPROttawa2024 to accept our (@milahall) full day workshop on the slightly left-field topic of equitable #OpenAccess publishing in #PsychotherapyResearch!
Jan R. Boehnke