Trial design
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Review: Adverse event monitoring and reporting in studies of pediatric psychosocial interventions: a systematic review
Open Access paper from the CAMH journal – ‘In this systematic review, we identified how adverse events are defined, measured, and reported in studies of psychosocial interventions for children with mental disorders’. Kalee Lodewyk et al.
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Do single-case experimental designs lead to randomised controlled trials of cognitive behavioural therapy interventions for adolescent anxiety and related disorders recommended in the National Institute of Clinical Excellence guidelines? A systematic review
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘The primary purpose of this review was to investigate whether Single-case experimental designs (SCEDs) are currently followed by randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) intervention for adolescent anxiety disorders named in the NICE guidelines’. Tom Cawthorne et al.
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Commentary: Modeling the malleable mental health trajectory – a commentary on Oldehinkel and Ormel (2023)
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘In their Annual Research Review, Oldehinkel & Ormel argue that psychological and psychiatric researchers should not only compare groups but also focus on the within-person variability using repeated measurements in longitudinal studies to advance our understanding of emotional and behavioral problems. I argue adopting such within-person approaches might also change how we think about causality and might lead us to more successful intervention research.’ Henning Tiemeier
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Methodological Review: Why we need families in genomic research on developmental psychopathology
Open Access from JCPP Advances – ‘The goal of this paper is to review how combining DNA-based genomic research with family-based quantitative genetics helps to address key issues in genomics and push knowledge further.’ Rosa Cheesman (pic) et al.
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‘To strive, to seek, to find’: A call for RCTs
A randomised controlled trial (RCT) is widely held as the gold standard for clinical trials.
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The quality of autism intervention studies must improve to ensure validity
The past decade has seen a rise in the number of international reviews of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) interventions, but confusingly, many of these reviews come to different conclusions or only assess selected forms of intervention.
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