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HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 29, Issue 5, Pages 468-470Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/a0020844
Keywords
comparison conditions; control conditions; complex interventions; behaviour change techniques; behaviour change theory
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- MRC [MC_U145085839] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MC_U145085839] Funding Source: Medline
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The nature of comparison conditions is a much overlooked feature of designing and interpreting the results of randomized controlled trials, as outlined by Williams (2010). We agree that understanding the components and mechanisms of the comparison condition is necessary for making inferences about both intervention effectiveness (whether the intervention worked and which components may have contributed to such an effect) and about theoretical mediators (how it worked). The extent to which one can draw strong inferences regarding the efficacy and mechanisms of an intervention over the comparison is conditional upon a number of key points.
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