Control Group Design: Enhancing Rigor in Research of Mind-Body Therapies for Depression
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Although a growing body of research suggests that mind-body therapies may be appropriate to integrate into the treatment of depression, studies consistently lack methodological sophistication particularly in the area of control groups. In order to better understand the relationship between control group selection and methodological rigor, we provide a brief review of the literature on control group design in yoga and tai chi studies for depression, and we discuss challenges we have faced in the design of control groups for our recent clinical trials of these mind-body complementary therapies for women with depression. To address the multiple challenges of research about mind-body therapies, we suggest that researchers should consider 4 key questions: whether the study design matches the research question; whether the control group addresses performance, expectation, and detection bias; whether the control group is ethical, feasible, and attractive; and whether the control group is designed to adequately control for nonspecific intervention effects. Based on these questions, we provide specific recommendations about control group design with the goal of minimizing bias and maximizing validity in future research.
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Comparisons to a passive control can both overestimate effect sizes and identify effectiveness erroneously.
“These findings need to be interpreted with caution, given that they arise from secondary analyses, and because it has been well demonstrated that comparisons to a passive control can both overestimate effect sizes and identify effectiveness erroneously (Davidson & Kaszniak, 2015; Goldberg et al., 2022; Kinser & Robins, 2013).”
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In §3.2 (page unavailable), the paper says inadequate blinding may exaggerate treatment effects. In §3.1 (page unavailable), it calls usual-care and wait-list controls weak because they do not account for nonspecific effects. It does not say passive-control comparisons erroneously establish effectiveness; it also lists a wait-list control as an option for evaluating effectiveness. (LLM, conf=0.84)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe methodological quality of yoga studies has often been poor.
“In addition to the lack of differentiation and systematic investigation, the methodological quality of yoga studies has often been poor [40,41].”
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These common factors might be unspecific, such as social support, group dynamics, or attention from the intervention teachers.
“These factors might be unspecific, such as social support, group dynamics, or attention from the intervention teachers [41,73].”
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- Authors
- Kinser, P. A., & Robins, J. L.
- Affiliations
- Virginia Commonwealth University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kinser, Patricia Anne
- Venue
- Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2013
- Volume
- 2013
- Pages
- 1-10
- ISSN
- 1741-427X (ISSN-L)
- 1741-4288
- PMC
- PMC3638639
- OpenAlex
- W1994579861
- Cited by
- 155
- References
- 50
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 7.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- VCU Scholars Compass (Virginia Commonwealth University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (5-T32-AT000052)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
- Keywords
- control group design, mind-body interventions, depression, yoga, Tai Chi, complementary therapy, methodological quality, performance bias, expectation bias, detection bias, women with depression, clinical trials
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