Evaluating clinical significance through equivalence testing: Extending the normative comparisons approach

dc.contributor.authorCribbie, Robert
dc.contributor.authorArpin-Cribbie, C. A.
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-03T23:12:56Z
dc.date.available2018-06-03T23:12:56Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractThe field of psychology, as with many other disciplines, has been increasingly interested in being able to measure the effectiveness of behavioral interventions. This trend has led to a number of different approaches for measuring clinical significance, each addressing a slightly different aspect of the clinical outcome. Recently, clinical psychologists (and clients) have supported the contention that one of the most important therapeutic questions is whether clients are functioning equivalently to normal controls following an intervention. To address this question, Kendall, Marrs-Garcia, Nath, and Sheldrick (1999) presented an approach to measuring clinical significance that utilizes tests of equivalence. The present study clarifies the nature of the hypotheses being conducted in measuring clinical significance with tests of equivalence and extends the approach by incorporating recent advances in equivalence testing. A revised approach for evaluating clinical significance via equivalence testing is proposed, and an empirical example demonstrating this approach is provided.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
dc.identifier.citationCribbie, R. A., & Arpin-Cribbie, C. A. (2009). Evaluating clinical significance through equivalence testing: Extending the normative comparisons approach. Psychotherapy Research, 19(6), 677-686. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503300902926554
dc.identifier.issn1050-3307
dc.identifier.uriDOI: 10.1080/10503300902926554en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/34602
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSociety for Psychotherapy Researchen_US
dc.rights.articlehttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10503300902926554?journalCode=tpsr20
dc.rights.journalhttps://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tpsr20/currenten_US
dc.rights.publisherhttps://www.tandfonline.com/en_US
dc.subjectstatistical methodologyen_US
dc.subjectoutcome researchen_US
dc.titleEvaluating clinical significance through equivalence testing: Extending the normative comparisons approach
dc.typeArticleen_US

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