Psychology: Research and Review
Criteria | Parts of the text in which the criteria were met |
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3. Guidelines should specify what outcomes the intervention aims to produce and the required evidence for each outcome. | PSM description Results |
4. It is important to consider the method and rationale for selecting participants as well as how the sample represents the population (group equivalence) and phenomena of interest. | Criteria for selection of participants |
6. Measures used to evaluate the results must have psychometric validity. | |
8. An efficacy statement should be formulated that “program or policy X is efficacious in producing outcomes Y for population Z.” | Discussion |
9. Individual pre-test differences should be evaluated. | Brief case formulations |
10. For long-term results, there should be at least one follow-up. | Method Results |
11. All results should be displayed (positive, non-significant, or negative). | Results |
12. Statistics should be used to ensure unbiased estimates in the results. | Data analysis procedures for standardized instruments |
13. Results should consider the clinical significance of the intervention. | Data analysis procedures Results for standardized instruments |
15. Results should contain the main components of the intervention, time to observe effects, and mediating or moderating variables | Results |
17. The study should assess and report rates of losses and dropouts, which may compromise the generalizability of the results to other samples/populations. | Results Discussion |