ArticleAdministration and policy in mental health2009
Preference in random assignment: implications for the interpretation of randomized trials.
Article in Administration and policy in mental health, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Does Competitive Work Improve Quality of Life for Adults with Severe Mental Illness? Evidence from a Randomized Trial of Supported Employment.The journal of behavioral health services & research · 2016Trial
- Health promotion in individuals with mental disorders: a cluster preference randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2013Trial
- Health promotion intervention in mental health care: design and baseline findings of a cluster preference randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2012Trial
- Estimating the causal effect of randomization versus treatment preference in a doubly randomized preference trial.Psychological methods · 2012Trial
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- Independent Supported Housing vs institutional housing rehabilitation settings for non-homeless individuals with severe mental illness - longitudinal results from an observational study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Observational
- A scoping review on two-stage randomized preference trial in the field of mental health and addiction.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- A mirror-image analysis of psychiatric hospitalisations among people with severe mental illness using Independent Supported Housing.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- Independent Supported Housing for non-homeless individuals with severe mental illness: Comparison of two effectiveness studies using a randomised controlled and an observational study design.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Independent Housing and Support for non-homeless individuals with severe mental illness: randomised controlled trial vs. observational study - study protocol.BMC psychiatry · 2020Article
- Viability of using employment rates from randomized trials as benchmarks for supported employment program performance.Administration and policy in mental health · 2010Article
- A Conceptual Model to Promote the Retention of Women with Physical Disabilities in Research.Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.)Review
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Abstract
Random assignment to a preferred experimental condition can increase service engagement and enhance outcomes, while assignment to a less-preferred condition can discourage service receipt and limit outcome attainment. We examined randomized trials for one prominent psychiatric rehabilitation intervention, supported employment, to gauge how often assignment preference might have complicated the interpretation of findings. Condition descriptions, and greater early attrition from services-as-usual comparison conditions, suggest that many study enrollees favored assignment to new rapid-job-placement supported employment, but no study took this possibility into account. Reviews of trials in other service fields are needed to determine whether this design problem is widespread.
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