Trial reportJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2016
A randomized controlled trial of cognitive debiasing improves assessment and treatment selection for pediatric bipolar disorder.
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- A Systematic Review of Misdiagnosis of Pediatric Bipolar Disorder: Assessments and Recommendations.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Pooled it
- Expert Rater Agreement for Symptoms and Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder in Youth.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Data Diversity vs. Model Complexity in the Prediction of Pediatric Bipolar Disorder: Evidence from Academic and Community Clinical Samples.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Getting lost to find insights - a quasi-experimental evaluation of outdoor experiential learning as a method to teach clinical decision-making and decision science concepts.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Diagnostic error in mental health: a review.BMJ quality & safety · 2024Review
- Adequacy of Children's Psychopharmacology Services: Variations by Race and Clinical Characteristics.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2023Article
- Research Status in Clinical Practice Regarding Pediatric and Adolescent Bipolar Disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
- Review of the Basics of Cognitive Error in Emergency Medicine: Still No Easy Answers.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2020Review
- Decision making biases in the allied health professions: A systematic scoping review.PloS one · 2020Article
- Evidence-Based Assessment from Simple Clinical Judgments to Statistical Learning: Evaluating a Range of Options Using Pediatric Bipolar Disorder as a Diagnostic Challenge.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2018Article
- Assessing for suicidal behavior in youth using the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2018Article
- Diagnostic efficiency of the SDQ for parents to identify ADHD in the UK: a ROC analysis.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study examined the efficacy of a new cognitive debiasing intervention in reducing decision-making errors in the assessment of pediatric bipolar disorder (PBD).
methodThe study was a randomized controlled trial using case vignette methodology. Participants were 137 mental health professionals working in different regions of the United States (M = 8.6 ± 7.5 years of experience). Participants were randomly assigned to a (a) brief overview of PBD (control condition), or (b) the same brief overview plus a cognitive debiasing intervention (treatment condition) that educated participants about common cognitive pitfalls (e.g., base-rate neglect, search satisficing) and taught corrective strategies (e.g., mnemonics, Bayesian tools). Both groups evaluated 4 identical case vignettes. Primary outcome measures were clinicians' diagnoses and treatment decisions. The vignette characters' race or ethnicity was experimentally manipulated.
resultsParticipants in the treatment group showed better overall judgment accuracy, p < .001, and committed significantly fewer decision-making errors, p < .001. Inaccurate and somewhat accurate diagnostic decisions were significantly associated with different treatment and clinical recommendations, particularly in cases where participants missed comorbid conditions, failed to detect the possibility of hypomania or mania in depressed youths, and misdiagnosed classic manic symptoms. In contrast, effects of patient race were negligible.
conclusionsThe cognitive debiasing intervention outperformed the control condition. Examining specific heuristics in cases of PBD may identify especially problematic mismatches between typical habits of thought and characteristics of the disorder. The debiasing intervention was brief and delivered via the Web; it has the potential to generalize and extend to other diagnoses as well as to various practice and training settings.
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