SynthesisPsychological methods2012
Single-case experimental designs: a systematic review of published research and current standards.
Synthesis in Psychological methods, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04015505 (Does the Timeline Approach With Older Adults Experiencing Depression Reduce Negative Affect, and Result in Increased Self-compassion and Wisdom for Managing Current Difficulties? A Single Case Experimental Design), which is not on this map. Cited by 148 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Does the Timeline Approach With Older Adults Experiencing Depression Reduce Negative Affect, and Result in Increased Self-compassion and Wisdom for Managing Current Difficulties? A Single Case Experimental Design
Who cites it
148 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Examining the normality assumption of a design-comparable effect size in single-case designs.Behavior research methods · 2024Pooled it
- Pediatric Tube Weaning: A Meta-Analysis of Factors Contributing to Success.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2023Pooled it
- Effect of mirror therapy in the treatment of phantom limb pain in amputees: A systematic review of randomized placebo-controlled trials does not find any evidence of efficacy.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2023Pooled it
- Investigating strategies to increase general education teachers' adherence to evidence-based social-emotional behavior practices: A meta-analysis of the single-case literature.Journal of school psychology · 2022Pooled it
- A systematic review of applied single-case research published between 2016 and 2018: Study designs, randomization, data aspects, and data analysis.Behavior research methods · 2021Pooled it
- Thinning Schedules of Reinforcement Following Functional Communication Training for Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Meta-analytic Review.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2019Pooled it
- A realist review of which advocacy interventions work for which abused women under what circumstances.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
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- Memory Rehabilitation in Patients with Epilepsy: a Systematic Review.Neuropsychology review · 2018Pooled it
- Feasibility of brief behavioral telehealth interventions for sleep and pain in adults with chronic musculoskeletal orofacial pain: An idiographic clinical trial.Cranio : the journal of craniomandibular practice · 2026Trial
- Internet-Delivered Psychological Treatment for Parents With Health Anxiety by Proxy: Replicated Randomized Single-Case Experimental Design.JMIR formative research · 2025Trial
- Brief Engagement and Acceptance Coaching for Hospice Settings (the BEACHeS study): results from a Phase I study of acceptability and initial effectiveness in people with non-curative cancer.BMC palliative care · 2021Trial
- Mindfulness-Based Exposure Strategies as a Transdiagnostic Mechanism of Change: An Exploratory Alternating Treatment Design.Behavior therapy · 2016Trial
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy modules: Differential impact on treatment processes and outcomes.Behaviour research and therapy · 2016Trial
- Exploring behavioral markers of long-term physical activity maintenance: a case study of system identification modeling within a behavioral intervention.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2013Trial
- Virtual rescripting after loss using deepfake technology in prolonged grief treatment: a study protocol for a multiple baseline design.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Article
- Personalized Classification of Scenario-Derived Operational Driver-State Classes from Non-Intrusive Wearable Signals in Real-World SAE Level 2 Automated Driving.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Beyond RCTs-Better Research Designs and Methods for Psychosocial Efficacy Studies in Mental Health.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2026Review
- Acute Effects of High-Load Training to Failure vs. Non-Failure on Posture and Core Endurance in Collegiate Weightlifters: A Crossover Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Rethinking coping in chronic pain: a systematic review and dynamic interaction model of coping.Pain reports · 2026Review
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Abstract
This article systematically reviews the research design and methodological characteristics of single-case experimental design (SCED) research published in peer-reviewed journals between 2000 and 2010. SCEDs provide researchers with a flexible and viable alternative to group designs with large sample sizes. However, methodological challenges have precluded widespread implementation and acceptance of the SCED as a viable complementary methodology to the predominant group design. This article includes a description of the research design, measurement, and analysis domains distinctive to the SCED; a discussion of the results within the framework of contemporary standards and guidelines in the field; and a presentation of updated benchmarks for key characteristics (e.g., baseline sampling, method of analysis), and overall, it provides researchers and reviewers with a resource for conducting and evaluating SCED research. The results of the systematic review of 409 studies suggest that recently published SCED research is largely in accordance with contemporary criteria for experimental quality. Analytic method emerged as an area of discord. Comparison of the findings of this review with historical estimates of the use of statistical analysis indicates an upward trend, but visual analysis remains the most common analytic method and also garners the most support among those entities providing SCED standards. Although consensus exists along key dimensions of single-case research design, and researchers appear to be practicing within these parameters, there remains a need for further evaluation of assessment and sampling techniques and data analytic methods.
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