Evidence-Based Mental Health

1. Network meta-analyses of psychosocial and biological therapies for mood and anxiety disorders
   • PROTOCOL: Comparative efficacy and acceptability of first- and second- generation antidepressants in the acute treatment of major depression: a multiple treatments meta-analysis [GRISELDA] (To be published in BMJ Open)
   • PROTOCOL: COmprehensive Meta-Analysis for Depression [COMAD]
   • PROTOCOL: Dismantling CBT for panic disorder: protocol for a component-level network meta-analysis (Dr Pompoli)
   • PROTOCOL: Comparative efficacy and tolerability of pharmacological treatments in the maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder: a multiple treatments meta-analysis (Dr Miura) (Published in Lancet Psychiatry, 2014, 1, 351-359)
   • PROTOCOL: Psychological therapies for panic disorder: a multiple-treatments meta-analysis [MAP-P] (Dr Pompoli)
2. Other meta-analyses
• PROTOCOL: Psychological and educational interventions for atopic dermatitis in adults (Dr Hashimoto)
3. Research and development of new methods to translate evidence into clinical practices, applying epidemiology, statistics and psychometrics.

• PROTOCOL: Prospective protocol registration and selective outcome reporting in recent psychiatry trials: new antidepressants and cognitive-behavior therapies (Dr Shinohara) and its Amendment
• PROTOCOL: Newspaper reports of "promising clinical studies" (Dr Tajika)

 

1. A pragmatic mega-trial to establish optimum treatment strategies of new generation antidepressants for major depression
• PROTOCOL: Strategic use of new generation antidepressants for depression [SUN(^_^)D trial]
• UPDATED PROTOCOL & STATISTICAL ANALYSIS PLAN: Strategic use of new generation antidepressants for depression
2. Adding smartphone-based cognitive-behaviour therapy to pharmacotherapy for major depression

• PROTOCOL: Fun to Learn and Act Through Technology [FLATT trial]