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What are we doing to waiting list controls?

S A Elliott1, J S L Brown

  • 1School of Social Sciences, University of Greenwich, London, UK. s.a.elliott@greenwich.ac.uk

Behaviour Research and Therapy
|September 26, 2002
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Waiting list controls in stress management trials did not deteriorate during the wait. Post-intervention, both control and experimental groups showed similar outcomes, suggesting the intervention

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Health Services Research

Background:

  • Waiting list controls are ethically preferred over no-treatment controls in intervention studies.
  • Concerns exist regarding potential harm to waiting list controls versus the benefit of the intervention.
  • Few studies analyze intervention trials from the waiting list control perspective.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To reanalyze data from a stress management workshop intervention.
  • To assess the progress of the waiting list control group.
  • To compare outcomes between control and experimental groups.

Main Methods:

  • A Full Day Stress Management Workshop program was implemented in four locations.
  • Data from the four areas were reanalyzed.
  • Progress within the control group and final assessment points for both groups were compared.

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Main Results:

  • The control group showed no significant deterioration during the three-month waiting period.
  • Three months post-workshop, control group scores did not significantly differ from the experimental group.
  • This suggests the waiting period was not detrimental and the intervention may not be solely responsible for positive outcomes.

Conclusions:

  • Waiting list controls in this stress management trial did not experience negative effects during the wait.
  • The study highlights the importance of analyzing control group data to understand intervention effects.
  • Findings support the use of waiting list controls when the wait is reasonable and ethical.