Attention placebo control in randomized controlled trials of psychosocial interventions
- Attention placebo control (APC) is considered a highly valid control condition when conducting trials of social interventions. Unfortunately, an appropriate APC condition is rarely used. This letter discusses the tension between methodological and ethical requirements of an APC group in psychosocial interventions based on our experiences with a randomized controlled efficacy study of a parent training program. To prevent negative side effects and high drop-out rates, feasible and accepted attention control conditions are discussed. The paradigms of placebo research must be adapted to the special challenges of psychosocial intervention research.
| Author: | Lukka PoppORCiDGND, Silvia SchneiderORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-58357 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-0679-0 |
| Parent Title (English): | Trials |
| Subtitle (English): | theory and practice |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2018/07/04 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2015/04/11 |
| Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
| Tag: | Open Access Fonds Attention placebo control; Ethics; Psychosocial intervention; Randomized controlled trial |
| Volume: | 16 |
| First Page: | 150-1 |
| Last Page: | 150-3 |
| Note: | Article Processing Charge funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Open Access Publication Fund of Ruhr-Universität Bochum. |
| Institutes/Facilities: | Lehrstuhl für Klinische Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | Philosophie und Psychologie / Psychologie |
| open_access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
| faculties: | Fakultät für Psychologie |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - CC BY 4.0 - Attribution 4.0 International |
