Journal article
Stereotyping and the treatment of missing data for drug and alcohol clinical trials
Substance abuse treatment, prevention and policy, Vol.4(1), pp.2-2
02/18/2009
DOI: 10.1186/1747-597X-4-2
PMCID: PMC2649066
PMID: 19226454
Abstract
Stigma and stereotyping of marginalized groups often is insidious and shows up in unlikely places, for instance in how clinical trials consider dropouts in treatment research. A surprising number of studies presume that people who do not complete the study protocol relapse and code their data as if they had been observed. There is no good statistical rationale for this treatment of missing data and numerous and more defensible alternative methods are available. We need to be mindful about our attitudes and preconceptions about the people we are intending to help. There is no good reason to continue to support science built on this scientifically indefensible stereotyping, however unintentional.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Stereotyping and the treatment of missing data for drug and alcohol clinical trials
- Creators
- Stephan Arndt - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Substance abuse treatment, prevention and policy, Vol.4(1), pp.2-2
- DOI
- 10.1186/1747-597X-4-2
- PMID
- 19226454
- PMCID
- PMC2649066
- NLM abbreviation
- Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy
- ISSN
- 1747-597X
- eISSN
- 1747-597X
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 2
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/18/2009
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Biostatistics; Nursing; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9985132069502771
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