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content/en/blog/bmc-paper.md

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+---
+title: "Harmony's research has been published in BMC Psychiatry!"
+description: "Publication of paper: Using natural language processing to facilitate the harmonisation of mental health questionnaires: a validation study using real-world data, published in BMC Psychiatry."
+date: "2024-08-20"
+categories: 
+ - "psychology"
+
+image: "/images/bmc.png"
+url: "/bmc-psychiatry-paper"
+
+---
+
+# BMC Psychiatry has published our paper validating Harmony on real-world data
+
+We are pleased to announce the publication of a paper validating Harmony on real-life data: [Using natural language processing to facilitate the harmonisation of mental health questionnaires: a validation study using real-world data](https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-024-05954-2), authored by [Eoin McElroy](/our-team/), [Thomas Wood](https://fastdatascience.com), Raymond Bond, Maurice Mulvenna, Mark Shevlin, [George B. Ploubidis](/our-team/), [Mauricio Scopel Hoffmann](/our-team/) and [Bettina Moltrecht](/our-team/), and published in [BMC Psychiatry](https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/).
+
+* McElroy, E., Wood, T.A., Bond, R., Mulvenna M., Shevlin M., Ploubidis G., Scopel Hoffmann M., Moltrecht B., [Using natural language processing to facilitate the harmonisation of mental health questionnaires: a validation study using real-world data](https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-024-05954-2#citeas). BMC Psychiatry 24, 530 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-024-05954-2
+
+
+
+
+## Summary of the Harmony real-world validation study
+
+Our study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in [harmonising mental health questionnaires](/ces-d-vs-gad-7/) for cross-study research.
+
+By comparing the semantic similarity of questionnaire items using NLP (the [Sentence-BERT transformer model](/measuring-the-performance-of-nlp-algorithms/)) with their actual correlation in a sample population, we found a moderate relationship (*r* = .48, *p* < .001) between the two measures. This suggests that NLP can accurately identify similar questions across different questionnaires. 
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+While the NLP model showed promise in uncovering underlying patterns in the data, it required manual intervention to determine which relationships were truly relevant. 
+
+Our study showed that NLP can be a useful tool to match similar questions from different questionnaires, but it's not perfect and should be used with caution.
+
+## Citing the BMC validation paper
+
+A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
+
+```
+@article{mcelroy2024using,
+ title={Using natural language processing to facilitate the harmonisation of mental health questionnaires: a validation study using real-world data},
+ author={McElroy, Eoin and Wood, Thomas and Bond, Raymond and Mulvenna, Maurice and Shevlin, Mark and Ploubidis, George B and Hoffmann, Mauricio Scopel and Moltrecht, Bettina},
+ journal={BMC psychiatry},
+ volume={24},
+ number={1},
+ pages={530},
+ year={2024},
+ publisher={Springer}
+}
+```

content/en/frequently-asked-questions.md

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 ## How do I cite Harmony?
 
-If you would like to cite the tool alone, you can cite:
+If you would like to cite our [validation study](/bmc-psychiatry-paper/), published in BMC Psychiatry, you can cite:
+
+* McElroy, E., Wood, T.A., Bond, R., Mulvenna M., Shevlin M., Ploubidis G., Scopel Hoffmann M., Moltrecht B., [Using natural language processing to facilitate the harmonisation of mental health questionnaires: a validation study using real-world data](https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-024-05954-2#citeas). BMC Psychiatry 24, 530 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-024-05954-2
+
+
+A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
+
+```
+@article{mcelroy2024using,
+ title={Using natural language processing to facilitate the harmonisation of mental health questionnaires: a validation study using real-world data},
+ author={McElroy, Eoin and Wood, Thomas and Bond, Raymond and Mulvenna, Maurice and Shevlin, Mark and Ploubidis, George B and Hoffmann, Mauricio Scopel and Moltrecht, Bettina},
+ journal={BMC psychiatry},
+ volume={24},
+ number={1},
+ pages={530},
+ year={2024},
+ publisher={Springer}
+}
+```
+
+If you would like to cite the Harmony tool alone, you can cite:
 
 Wood, T.A., McElroy, E., Moltrecht, B., Ploubidis, G.B., Scopel Hoffmann, M., Harmony [Computer software], Version 1.0, accessed at https://harmonydata.ac.uk/app. [Ulster University](https://ulster.ac.uk) (2022)