ArticleWorld psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA)2025
Has the time come to stop using control groups in trials of psychosocial interventions?
Article in World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The overestimation of the effect sizes of psychotherapies for depression in waitlist controlled trials: a meta-analytic comparison with usual care controlled trials.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2024Pooled it
- Building evidence on digital psychotherapies for adults living with depression: a systematic scoping review of populations, interventions and design features of ongoing and planned randomised controlled trials.BMJ mental health · 2026Article
- Development, Feasibility, and Appreciation of the Collaborative Integrated Depression Care (IDECA) Project in Flanders, Belgium.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- How universal quality standards in intervention meta-analyses favor evidence from medical over psychosocial studies.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Treatment of Anxiety in Athletes Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Single-Case Experimental Design with Multiple Baselines.Journal for person-oriented research · 2026Article
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