While not central in ADHD research, intra-individual response variability has been used as a primary dependent variable in research in normal ageing and in neurological populations [ 21- 27].
The primary dependent variable was depression based on the Structured Clinical Diagnostic Interview (SCID).
Children emitted little or no problem behaviors during baseline or intervention, so parenting behavior was the primary dependent variable.
From this measure came our primary dependent variable for Experiment 1, postural displacement, defined as the difference in degrees between the participant's response on the circular posture scale and the actual posture of their unseen left hand.
Consultants constituted the independent variable, while the primary dependent variable was a descriptive effect size based on student behavior change as measured by (a) curriculum-based measures, (b) permanent products, or (c) direct observations.
The number of "runs" on each trial was our primary dependent variable.
The primary dependent variable was a neurocognitive composite score and exploratory analyses investigated five domain scores (processing speed, reasoning, verbal memory, working memory, and vigilance).
In these studies, rest-related pain is often considered the primary dependent variable or outcome, as opposed to a measure of activity-related pain.
The primary dependent variable in the empirical analysis measures the probability of a legislator switching her stance from being against to being in favor of deregulation.
MEASUREMENTS: The primary dependent variable, suboptimal pharmacotherapy, was a composite measure defined as one or more drug-related problems, based on drugs-to-avoid criteria, drug-drug interactions, drug-disease interactions, and failure to satisfy an explicit quality indicator for prescribing or medication monitoring.
The primary dependent variable was defined as the proportion of qualitative research studies in the medical literature.
