placebo_amplification: Placebo Amplification Data

Description Usage Format Source

Description

A dataset containing data from a randomized clinical trial sought to amplify the placebo effect of antidepressants for 43 participants. This was used as a real world example for repeated measures corrlation.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 172 rows and 13 variables.

id

Participant's age

age

Age

sex

Sex, a factor with two levels ("Female" or "Male")

treatment

The randomly assigned treatment, a factor with two levels ("TAU" = treatment as usual or "EG" = experimental group)

measurement

Number of measurement

exp_size

Participant's expected size of the improvement due to the antidepressant

exp_certain

Participant's expected certainty of an improvement due to the antidepressant

exp_speed

Participant's expected speed of the improvement due to the antidepressant

cgi_s

Clinical Global Impressions, severity score

bdi

Beck's Depression Inventory score

shaps

Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale score

who

WHO Well-Being Questionnaire score

hamd

Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression score

Source

Claus, B. B., Scherbaum, N., & Bonnet, U. (2020). Effectiveness of an Adjunctive Psychotherapeutic Intervention Developed for Enhancing the Placebo Effect of Antidepressants Used within an Inpatient-Treatment Program of Major Depression: A Pragmatic Parallel-Group, Randomized Controlled Trial. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1159/000505855


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