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However, further research using a causal study design is needed to confirm these findings.
While mediation analyses allow for the interpretation of a causal association between constructs, these findings are preliminary and further analysis using a causal study design will help to substantiate the current findings that changes in bipolar depression were causally associated with changes in functional impairment.
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Using a causal modeling approach in the current study, our findings supported those of Sheehan and colleagues, as improvement in symptoms of bipolar depression, in turn, resulted in improvement in functional impairment.
This retrospective cohort study used a causal comparative design and archival data to observe text-level reading ability and other literacy changes between the comparison and treatment groups based on the exogenous independent variable (Pre-K attendance).
"This is a context-finding study rather than a causal study, so we're not saying 'you play violent videogames, you get more aggressive,'" says Etchells.
Further work, using causal study designs, is needed to determine if in fact teaching these subjects together produces a synergistic effect.
This makes it more difficult to establish a causal relationship using an observational study design, because the relationship may be explained by factors out of the investigator's control.
Lastly, our data was obtained using a cross-sectional study design and, therefore, cannot provide any information about causal links.
Two feedforward designs are studied: collective-pitch model-inverse feedforward using a non-causal series expansion and individual-pitch gain-scheduled shaped compensator.
In addition, this study used a cross sectional study design; it is difficult to establish causal associations.
Open studies should be conducted first to determine whether an effect exists, then by blinded studies using a placebo intervention, to test the causal relationship.
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