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Comparing pre-post change across groups: Guidelines for choosing between difference scores, ANCOVA, and residual change scores.
(2016)
Psychological researchers often investigate differences between groups in the amount of change from pre-test to post-test. For example, researchers treating a group of depressed students may wish to compare the amount of ...
Exposure-based interventions for the management of individuals with high levels of needle fear across the lifespan: A clinical practice guideline and call for further research
(Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 2016)
Needle fear typically begins in childhood and represents an important health-related issue across the lifespan. Individuals who are highly fearful of needles frequently avoid health care. Although guidance exists for ...
The GO4KIDDS Brief Adaptive Scale
(Wiley, 2015-04)
Background. Accurate measurement of adaptive behaviour is important in both clinical and research contexts. While several good clinical measures exist, as well as brief research measures for adults with ID, there is ...
Psychotropic medication use among adolescents and young adults with an autism spectrum disorder: Parent views about medication use and health care services
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. publishers, 2015-04)
Objectives: Psychotropic medications are frequently used to treat mental health and behavioral issues in adolescents and adults with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Although parents of individuals with ASD frequently ...
Patients' perceptions of joint replacement care in a changing healthcare system: a qualitative study
(Longwoods Publishing Corporation, 2014-02)
Background: Ontario has introduced strategies over the past decade to reduce wait times and length of stay and improve access to physiotherapy for orthopaedic and other patients. The aim of this study is to explore patients' ...
Psychosocial well-being over the two years following cardiac rehabilitation initiation & association with heart-health behaviors
(Elsevier, 2018-05)
The objective of this research was to track psychosocial well-being over 2 years following cardiac rehabilitation (CR) initiation, and its' association with heart-health behaviors.
Patients from 3 CR programs were approached ...
Equivalence of Population Variances: Synchronizing the Objective and Analysis
(Journal of Experimental Education, 2017)
Researchers are often interested in testing for the equivalence of population variances.
Traditional difference-based procedures are appropriate to answer questions about
differences in some statistic (e.g., variances, ...
Are we really that different from each other? The difficulties of focusing on similarities in cross-cultural research.
(American Psychological Association, 2015)
In this article we argue that there are 2 dominant underlying themes in discussions of strategies for dealing with diversity—similarity and difference. When we are dealing with social groups, a number of basic psychological ...
Inclusion of authorized deception in the informed consent process does not affect the magnitude of the placebo effect for experimentally induced pain
(Elsevier, 2010)
The ethics of placebo research have been of paramount concern since the discovery of the phenomenon. To address these ethical concerns, Miller and colleagues (PLoS Med 2005 Sep;2(9):e262, 0853–0859) propose an alternate ...
Acute and chronic post-surgical pain after living liver donation: Incidence and predictors
(Wiley, 2014-11)
Despite its prominence as a concern among potential surgical candidates, there is little information in the literature regarding the short- and long-term pain experience after living liver donation. We undertook a prospective ...