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  • Biostatistics
  • Psychiatry

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  • Subgroup analysis in outcomes research is crucial for understanding treatment effects in specific populations.
  • Propensity score (PS) methods are commonly used to adjust for confounding in nonrandomized studies.
  • The performance of different PS methods in subgroup analysis requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the feasibility of univariate and generalized propensity score (PS) methods for subgroup analysis in outcomes research.
  • To compare the performance of univariate PS with additional subgroup adjustment versus generalized PS (treatment crossed with subgroup).
  • To assess the utility of these methods using simulation data and real-world psychotherapy effectiveness data.

Main Methods:

  • Monte Carlo simulations were used to compare the bias and mean squared error of univariate and generalized PS methods.
  • Subgroup effects were estimated using linear regression models with PS adjustments.
  • The methods were applied to a large effectiveness study of psychotherapy for personality disorders, defining subgroups by problem severity.

Main Results:

  • Monte Carlo simulations indicated marginally lower bias and mean squared error for the generalized PS method compared to the univariate PS.
  • For the univariate PS, excluding the subgroup variable from PS estimation and adjusting only in the outcome equation was effective.
  • Application to psychotherapy data yielded similar results between the univariate and generalized PS estimations.

Conclusions:

  • The generalized PS method is a feasible and effective approach for identifying subgroup effects in nonrandomized outcomes research.
  • The generalized PS method demonstrated a slight advantage over the univariate PS in simulation studies.
  • Both methods provided comparable results when applied to real-world psychotherapy effectiveness data.