Control Groups
Research News and Information

Monday, November 23, 2009

Design and recruitment of the Chicago Healthy Living Study: a study of health behaviors in a diverse cohort of adult childhood cancer survivors.

13 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Adult childhood cancer survivors are at higher risk for developing late medical effects related to their cancer treatments. Health-promoting behaviors may reduce the risk of some late effects and the severity of others. This article ... Read more...

Emotion antecedents in schizophrenia.

15 Jul 2009 Emotion antecedents are defined as external or internal events that cause emotions in individuals. Their study brings us insight into individuals' emotion processing. Emotion antecedents have rarely been studied in schizophrenia. Thirty individuals ... Read more...

A guide to interpretation of studies investigating subgroups of responders to physical therapy interventions.

19 May 2009 Many researchers and clinicians believe the effectiveness of existing physical therapy interventions can be improved by targeting the provision of specific interventions at patients who respond best to that treatment. Although this approach has the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Control Groups'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Rates of serious infection after medical abortion. 6 Oct 2009
• Design and recruitment of the Chicago Healthy Living Study: a study of health behaviors in a diverse cohort of adult childhood cancer survivors. 13 Sep 2009
• Control in rehabilitation research. 30 Jul 2009
• Placebo effect in depression. 30 Jul 2009
• Emotion antecedents in schizophrenia. 15 Jul 2009
• A guide to interpretation of studies investigating subgroups of responders to physical therapy interventions. 19 May 2009
• More on reports of esophageal cancer with oral bisphosphonate use. 21 Apr 2009
• Development of a novel malingering detection method involving multiple detection strategies. 9 Mar 2009
• What is the best standard for the standard of care in clinical research? 27 Feb 2009
• Relationship between immune function and serum vitamin A in Japanese black beef cattle. 30 Jan 2009
• Selecting promising treatments in randomized Phase II cancer trials with an active control. 30 Dec 2008
• Between-arm comparisons in randomized Phase II trials. 30 Dec 2008
• Some observations on observational research. 30 Dec 2008
• Better conduct of clinical trials: the control group in critical care trials. 30 Dec 2008
• Comments on the article "Teenage pregnancies: obstetric characteristics and outcome" by Gupta et al. [Eur. J. Obstet. Gynecol. Reprod. Biol. 2008; 137(2):165-71]. 23 Dec 2008
• Ethical concerns about non-active conditions in smoking cessation trials and methods to decrease such concerns. 4 Dec 2008
• Application of the Type D Scale (DS14) in Chinese coronary heart disease patients and healthy controls. 29 Nov 2008
• Demonstration of decreased activity of dorsal raphe nucleus neurons in depressed suicidal patients by the AgNOR staining method. 29 Nov 2008
• Change over time in alcohol consumption in control groups in brief intervention studies: systematic review and meta-regression study. 26 Nov 2008
• Testing retinal toxicity of drugs in animal models using electrophysiological and morphological techniques. 7 Nov 2008

See a longer list of these articles.

Technical information about 'Control Groups'

Definition: Groups that serve as a standard for comparison in experimental studies. They are similar in relevant characteristics to the experimental group but do not receive the experimental intervention.

Descriptor UI: D035061

Alternative terms: Control Groups; Control Group; Group, Control; Groups, Control;

Related Mesh Headings: Controlled Clinical Trials as Topic;

Tree Number: E05.318.780.074; E05.581.500.149;

History Note: 2003

Technical Notes: do not use routinely for the presence of control groups in a study design; reserve for discussions about control groups.