ArticlePrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2010
Investigating the impact of selection bias in dose-response analyses of preventive interventions.
Article in Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Child diet and health outcomes of the simple suppers program: a 10-week, 2-group quasi-experimental family meals trial.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Life Satisfaction Moderates the Effectiveness of a Play-Based Parenting Intervention in Low-Income Mothers and Toddlers.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2015Article
- Selection effects and prevention program outcomes.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2013Article
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Abstract
This paper focuses on the impact of selection bias in the context of extended, community-based prevention trials that attempt to "unpack" intervention effects and analyze mechanisms of change. Relying on dose-response analyses as the most general form of such efforts, this study provides two examples of how selection bias can affect the estimation of treatment effects. In Example 1, we describe an actual intervention in which selection bias was believed to influence the dose-response relation of an adaptive component in a preventive intervention for young children with severe behavior problems. In Example 2, we conduct a series of Monte Carlo simulations to illustrate just how severely selection bias can affect estimates in a dose-response analysis when the factors that affect dose are not recorded. We also assess the extent to which selection bias is ameliorated by the use of pretreatment covariates. We examine the implications of these examples and review trial design, data collection, and data analysis factors that can reduce selection bias in efforts to understand how preventive interventions have the effects they do.
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