Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9293491 | Contemporary Clinical Trials | 2005 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
In view of the relative insensitivity of cross-sectional measures, the minimal additional information in more than two assessments of beliefs and the risk of modifying participants' beliefs by repeated questioning, we conclude that the optimal means of assessing unblinding is an intergroup comparison of the change in beliefs (and not their correctness) between the start and end of a randomized controlled trial.
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Authors
Judy R. Rees, Timothy J. Wade, Deborah A. Levy, John M. Jr., Joan F. Hilton,