Principles for Designing Randomized Preventive Trials in Mental Health: An Emerging Developmental Epidemiology Paradigm
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An emerging population‐based paradigm is now being used to guide the design of preventive trials used to test developmental models. We discuss elements of the designs of several ongoing randomized preventive trials involving reduction of risk for children of divorce, for children who exhibit behavioral or learning problems, and for children whose parents are being treated for depression. To test developmental models using this paradigm, we introduce three classes of design issues: design for prerandomization, design for intervention, and design for postintervention. For each of these areas, we present quantitative results from power calculations. Both scientific and cost implications of these power calculations are discussed in terms of variation among subjects on preintervention measures, unit of intervention, assignment, balancing, number of pretest and posttest measures, and the examination of moderation effects.
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Our classroom blocked design allowed us to test intervention impact on ODRs and suspensions by holding fixed those school contextual effects.
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- Authors
- Brown, C. H., & Liao, J.
- Venue
- American Journal of Community Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1999-10
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 5
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- 673-710
- ISSN
- 0091-0562
- 1573-2770
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- 116
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