ArticlePloS one2020
suddengains: An R package to identify sudden gains in longitudinal data.
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- Sudden gains in modular CBT for mental health disorders in children and young people with epilepsy.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Trial
- Sudden gains in face-to-face and internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder.Behaviour research and therapy · 2023Trial
- Within-day sudden gains and generalized anxiety disorder psychotherapy outcome.Psychotherapy (Chicago, Ill.) · 2022Trial
- Resilience and residuals beyond containment - The hidden burden of Bundibugyo Ebola virus survivorship sixteen years on: A cross-sectional observational study.New microbes and new infections · 2026Article
- Sudden Gains in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Seasonal Affective Disorder.Cognitive therapy and research · 2025Article
- Sudden gains in internet cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder in routine clinical practice.Internet interventions · 2024Article
- Sudden gains in routine clinical care: application of a permutation test for trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Article
- Cognitive processes associated with sudden gains in cognitive therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in routine care.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Sudden gains are large and stable improvements in an outcome variable between consecutive measurements, for example during a psychological intervention with multiple assessments. Researching these occurrences could help understand individual change processes in longitudinal data. Three criteria are generally used to identify sudden gains in psychological interventions. However, applying these criteria can be time consuming and prone to errors if not fully automated. Adaptations to these criteria and methodological decisions such as how multiple gains are handled vary across studies and are reported with different levels of detail. These problems limit the comparability of individual studies and make it hard to understand or replicate the exact methods used. The R package suddengains provides a set of tools to facilitate sudden gains research. This article illustrates how to use the package to identify sudden gains or sudden losses and how to extract descriptive statistics as well as exportable data files for further analysis. It also outlines how these analyses can be customised to apply adaptations of the standard criteria. The suddengains package therefore offers significant scope to improve the efficiency, reporting, and reproducibility of sudden gains research.
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