PSYT 640. Non-Pharmacological Clinical Trials.

This course will provide an introduction to the design, conduct, analysis, and reporting of randomized clinical trials with a focus on issues particularly important to non-pharmacological interventions (e.g., psychotherapy, care management interventions, physical therapy interventions) including blinding, intervention complexity, and intervention fidelity. Topics will include trial design and specification of a primary question; ethical considerations; randomization and stratification; sample size determination; analysis and reporting; quality and sources of bias; interpretation of results; and design alternatives, including considerations of particular relevance to trials of non-pharmacological interventions