An Examination of Measurement Procedures and Characteristics of Baseline Outcome Data in Single-Case Research.

In this study, we examine several features of SCDs with behavioral outcome measures in order to inform development of statistical methods. Drawing on a corpus of over 300 studies, including approximately 1,800 cases, from seven systematic reviews that cover a range of interventions and outcome constructs, we report the distribution of study designs, distribution of outcome measurement procedures, and features of baseline outcome data distributions for the most common types of measurements used in single-case research. We discuss implications for the development of more realistic assumptions regarding outcome distributions in SCD studies, as well as the design of Monte Carlo simulation studies evaluating the performance of statistical analysis techniques for SCD data.
PMID: 31375029 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Behavior Modification - August 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Pustejovsky JE, Swan DM, English KW Tags: Behav Modif Source Type: research