https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/jshd/issue/feedJournal of Statistics on Health Decision2025-02-21T09:47:28+00:00Editorial Teamjshd@ua.ptOpen Journal Systems<p>The <em>Journal of Statistics in Health Decision</em> is an open-access peer-reviewed journal published by University of Aveiro (UA). The goal is to provide high-quality publications in the areas of Medical Statistics. Expert leaders in this field constitute editorial board.</p>https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/jshd/article/view/36913A mental health clinician’s primer on statistical mediation and moderation2025-02-21T09:47:28+00:00Carlos Caronacarona.carlos@gmail.com<p>Statistical literacy is vital to the effective delivery of evidence-based mental healthcare. In this context, mediation and moderation models of mental processes have become increasingly popular, because of their potential to reveal possible causal mechanisms between variables or specific conditions for a given effect to occur. This brief article aims to introduce practicing mental health clinicians to statistical mediation and moderation models, by outlining their conceptual distinction, summarizing the underlying data analysis procedures, and discussing the implications of such models for clinical decision making in mental health practice.</p>2024-12-02T00:00:00+00:00##submission.copyrightStatement##