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The following domains were rated: a) the adequate generation of allocation sequence, b) the concealment of allocation to conditions, c) the prevention of knowledge of the allocated intervention (blinding of assessors) and d) the adequate addressment of incomplete outcome data.
Seven reported allocation to conditions by an independent party.
None of the thirteen studies reported whether allocation to conditions was conducted by an independent party.
There are four basic criteria in the Cochrane Handbook: allocation to conditions by an independent (third) party; blinding of assessors of outcomes; adequacy of random allocation concealment to respondents and completeness of follow-up data.
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After completion of the baseline survey, participants will receive email notification of their allocation to condition (i.e., Cry Baby alone or Cry Baby with Additional Prompts).
At the baseline assessment, after completion of baseline questionnaire measures and random allocation to condition (for details, see the Randomization section in the appendix), participants completed the SST.
Eight of the nine studies used an adequate sequence generation strategy and had an independent party conceal allocations to conditions.
Although these interventions typically produced ~6% weight loss, the studies tended to have small sample sizes, often did not include comparison conditions, and lacked randomized allocation to treatment conditions.
When ABM researchers have sought to examine participant awareness of their allocation to treatment conditions they have found that most (79% of those in the control condition and 72% of those in the ABM condition) believe that they are not receiving an active treatment at all, with no significant differences in this awareness between conditions [ 8].
The professionals and researchers will be aware of the allocation to the conditions; clients cannot be blinded but it will not be pointed out to them explicitly which condition they are in.
Four studies (N=82; 67; 67; 128), in the UK, identified whether members of the public (i) accept that an individual clinician might be genuinely unsure which of two treatments was better; (ii) judge that when there is uncertainty it is acceptable to suggest deciding at random; (iii) recognise scientific benefits of random allocation to treatment conditions in a trial.
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