Placebo, usual care and wait-list interventions for all mental health disorders
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Use of waitlist control conditions in RCTs may overestimate treatment effects and artificially inflate effect sizes, so inclusion of an active control condition is recommended.
“As the use of waitlist control conditions (WLCs) in RCT may overestimate treatment effects and thus artificially inflate the effect sizes of therapies, the inclusion of ACC in RCT is recommended (Faltinsen et al., 2019;Furukawa et al., 2014).”
From Effectiveness of a transdiagnostic indicated preventive intervention for adolescents at high risk for anxiety and depressive disorders (2024) · cites this paper as Faltinsen et al., 2019
The ‘Why it is important to do this review’ section says that adverse outcomes in wait-list participants could create a risk of overestimating psychiatric treatment effects, but presents this as a possibility the review will investigate. It does not recommend including an active control condition in RCTs. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“As the use of waitlist control conditions (WLCs) in RCT may overestimate treatment effects and thus artificially inflate the effect sizes of therapies, the inclusion of ACC in RCT is recommended (Faltinsen et al., 2019; Furukawa et al., 2014).”
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- Authors
- Faltinsen, E., Todorovac, A., Hróbjartsson, A., Gluud, C., Kongerslev, M. T., Simonsen, E., & Storebø, O. J.
- Affiliations
- Region Zealand (DK)
- Odense University Hospital (DK)
- Copenhagen University Hospital (DK)
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- University of Southern Denmark (DK)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2019-01-31
- ISSN
- 1361-6137 (ISSN-L)
- 1465-1858
- OpenAlex
- W2911306302
- Cited by
- 9
- References
- 115
- Citations by year
- 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 0.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- new_version (2022-04-04)
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (publishedVersion)
- Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Keywords
- placebo, usual care, waitlist control, mental illness, psychological intervention
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