Universität Wien

200089 SE Advanced Seminar: Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology (A) (2022S)

Evaluation psychologischer Interventionen: Randomisierte Studien

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 20 - Psychologie
Continuous assessment of course work
MIXED

Vertiefungsseminare können nur für das Pflichtmodul B verwendet werden! Eine Verwendung für das Modul A4 Freie Fächer ist nicht möglich.
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Details

max. 20 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

03.03. Introduction: Hierarchy of evidence – from single case studies to RCTs; PICO questions; selecting an RCT to use in this seminar
17.03. Designing trials that are fit for purpose: Pragmatic (effectiveness) versus explanatory (efficacy) trials [reading material: Thorpe 2009; Loudon 2015; precis-2.org]
24.03. Randomisation, allocation concealment, and blinding [Moher 2010, items 8-11, Box 2-4; consort-statement.org]
31.03. Whom is this trial about? The intention-to-treat principle, per-protocol analysis, and dealing with missing data [Moher 2010, Fig 3, Box 6]
07.04. Replicability of interventions: manuals, treatment fidelity, therapist effects [Boutron 2017; Hoffmann 2014]
28.04. What is an appropriate control group? [Gold 2015]
12.05. Eligibility criteria: Wide or narrow? [Thorpe 2009; Loudon 2015; precis-2.org]
19.05. Appropriate and replicable statistical analysis [Gold 2015]; Presentations by students I
09.06. Presentations by students II
23.06. Meta-analysis, risk of bias assessment, grading the evidence [training.cochrane.org/handbook, especially chapter 8]
30.06. Any remaining topics and questions

  • Thursday 03.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum Psychologie NIG 6.OG A0621A
  • Thursday 17.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum Psychologie NIG 6.OG A0621A
  • Thursday 24.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum Psychologie NIG 6.OG A0621A
  • Thursday 31.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum Psychologie NIG 6.OG A0621A
  • Thursday 05.05. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum Psychologie NIG 6.OG A0621A
  • Thursday 12.05. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum Psychologie NIG 6.OG A0621A
  • Thursday 19.05. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum Psychologie NIG 6.OG A0621A
  • Thursday 09.06. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum Psychologie NIG 6.OG A0621A
  • Thursday 23.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum Psychologie NIG 6.OG A0621A
  • Thursday 30.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Seminarraum Psychologie NIG 6.OG A0621A

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Das Seminar wird auf Deutsch oder (falls von Teilnehmer*innen gewünscht) auf Englisch gehalten. Die verwendete Literatur ist auf Englisch. Präsentationen der Teilnehmer*innen können wahlweise auf Deutsch oder Englisch gehalten werden.

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are generally regarded as the gold standard in the evaluation of health-related interventions. If conducted appropriately, they can provide more reliable evidence of intervention effects than any other research design. However, conducting high-quality RCTs of psychological interventions is particularly difficult for several reasons. These include the difficulty of conducting interventions in a consistent way across intervention providers and participants (treatment fidelity); the difficulty of blinding participants, intervention providers, and outcome assessors; and the difficulty of finding an appropriate control or comparison intervention. In contrast to pharmacological development, where the need for regulatory approval imposes additional pressure towards rigorous trial design, conduct, and reporting, the lack of a corresponding process in psychological interventions may contribute further to an imbalance in methodological rigour.

This seminar provides you with an overview of methodological considerations when designing, conducting, analysing and reporting RCTs of psychological interventions. You will find and use (at least) one RCT in an area of your interest and apply these methodological considerations to that trial. At the end of this seminar, you will be able to critically appraise the methodological quality of RCTs of psychological interventions, and you will also have the basic knowledge needed for designing such RCTs yourself.

Assessment and permitted materials

Oral presentations, written assignments, participation.
Regular attendance at the seminar sessions (min. 80%) is a prerequisite for successful completion of the seminar.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Comfortable with reading scientific literature in English.

Examination topics

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Reading list

Boutron, I., Altman, D. G., Moher, D., Schulz, K. F., Ravaud, P., & Grp, C. N. (2017). CONSORT Statement for Randomized Trials of Nonpharmacologic Treatments: A 2017 Update and a CONSORT Extension for Nonpharmacologic Trial Abstracts. Ann Intern Med, 167(1), 40-+. https://doi.org/10.7326/M17-0046

Gold, C. (2015). Quantitative psychotherapy outcome research: Methodological issues. In O. C. G. Gelo, A. Pritz, & B. Rieken (Eds.), Psychotherapy Research: Foundations, Process, and Outcome (pp. 537–558). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1382-0_26

Hoffmann, T. C., Glasziou, P. P., Boutron, I., Milne, R., Perera, R., Moher, D., Altman, D. G., Barbour, V., Macdonald, H., Johnston, M., Lamb, S. E., Dixon-Woods, M., McCulloch, P., Wyatt, J. C., Chan, A. W., & Michie, S. (2014). Better reporting of interventions: Template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide. BMJ, 348, g1687. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g1687

Loudon, K., Treweek, S., Sullivan, F., Donnan, P., Thorpe, K. E., & Zwarenstein, M. (2015). The PRECIS-2 tool: Designing trials that are fit for purpose. BMJ, 350. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h2147

Moher, D., Hopewell, S., Schulz, K. F., Montori, V., Gøtzsche, P. C., Devereaux, P. J., Elbourne, D., Egger, M., & Altman, D. G. (2010). CONSORT 2010 explanation and elaboration: Updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials. BMJ, 340, c869. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.c869

Thorpe, K. E., Zwarenstein, M., Oxman, A. D., Treweek, S., Furberg, C. D., Altman, D. G., Tunis, S., Bergel, E., Harvey, I., Magid, D. J., & Chalkidou, K. (2009). A pragmatic-explanatory continuum indicator summary (PRECIS): A tool to help trial designers. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 62, 464–475. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.12.011

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