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Research Methods in PsychologyBehavioral Medicine Psy 314

William P. Wattles, Ph.D..

Francis Marion University

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Empirical a. Relying on or derived from observation

or experiment: empirical results that supported the hypothesis.

b. Verifiable or provable by means of observation or experiment: empirical laws.

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Faith Healing gone bad

NYT 8/29 8-year old died at prayer service intended to save him.

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Good science versus bad science

Alternative explanations.

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Seven Signs of Voodoo Science

1. The discoverer pitches the claim directly to the media.

2. The discoverer says a powerful establishment is suppressing his work.

3. The effect is at the very limit of detection.

4. Evidence for the discovery is anecdotal.

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Seven Signs of Voodoo Science

5. The discoverer says a belief is credible because it has endured for centuries.

6. The discoverer has worked in isolation. 7. New laws of nature are proposed to

explain the observation.

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The Case Study

A. Widely used, easy to implement. B. Allows for a thorough analysis of the

subject. Useful when phenomena is rare or new

C. Provides a descriptionD. May disconfirm uniform assumptionsE. Useful for hypothesis generation.

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Disadvantages of case study

a. Can confuse the individual and the disorder.

b. Cannot generalize from this idiographic (individual) data or to nomothetic ( general)

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Idiographic vs. Nomothetic data Idiographic refers to the individual. Nomothetic - Of or relating to the study or

discovery of general scientific laws. When we use nomothetic data we gain and.

We lose specificity to the individual but we gain in that we can now generalize to others.

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Survey

A questionnaire asking self-reported attitude or behavior.

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Class Survey 2013

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96% 88% Disagree83% 92% Agree88% 75% Disagree83% 87% Agree71% 83% Agree33% 42% Agree

On a scale of 1 to 5 with 1 being not at all and 5 being very much, rate how true each of the statements is for you. 1-very not true for me 5-very true for me

1. I don’t mind being sick or incapacitated. 1—-2—-3-—4-—5 2. My health is very important to me. 1—-2—-3-—4-—5 3. Health is only important to old people. 1—-2—-3-—4-—5 4. I hate it when illness or injury interferes with my day. 1—-2—-3-—4-—5 5. I have friends or family who have had serious health problems 1—-2—-3-—4-—5 6. I am not as careful with my health as I should be. 1—-2—-3-—4-—5

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Correlation Observation only Relationship one tends to follow the other text: correlation indicates how similar the

scores are. In general when one increases the other

increases and vice versa.

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Correlation The relationship between two variables X

and Y. In general, are changes in X associated with

Changes in Y? If so we say that X and Y covary. We can observe correlation by looking at a

scatter plot.

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Type of correlation Positive correlation. The two change in a

similar direction. Individuals below average on X tend to be below average on Y and vice versa.

Negative correlation the two change in the opposite direction. Individuals who are above average on X tend to be below average on Y and vice versa.

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Examples Positive correlations: Hours spent studying

and g.p.a.; height and weight, exam 1 score and exam 2 score, Obesity and type2 diabetes, hypertension, asthma

Negative correlations; temperature and heating bills; hours spent watching TV and g.p.a.; SAT median and % taking the test.

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Correlation Coefficient One number that tells us about the strength

and direction of the relationship between X and Y.

Has a value from -1.0 (perfect negative correlation) to +1.0 (perfect positive correlation)

Perfect correlations do not occur in nature

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Strength of Correlation Weak .10, .20, .30 Moderate .40,.50, .60 Strong .70, .80, .90 No correlation 0.0

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Advantages of Correlation

Relatively simple to do.

Involves observation not manipulation

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Disadvantages of Correlation

CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION

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Causation

Sadly, there is no sufficient way to prove that an association between a factor and a disease is a causal relationship.

http://www.med.uottawa.ca/sim/data/Causation_e.htm

Strength Consistency Specificity Temporality Dose response

(biological gradiant) Plausibility Coherence

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Correlation

Measures of health for nations correlate with the number of televisions.

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Obesity increased with popularity of low-fat diet.– More Driving– Less walking– Larger portions– More computers

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EXPERIMENT Experimenter Control

(manipulation)– Independent variable– Dependent variable

Two or more groups– experimental group– control group

Random assignment

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Independent Variable Under control of the experimenter Used to explain changes in the dependent

variable Example: Type of instruction

– Should include a control group

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Dependent Variable Not under control by the experimenter Presumed to be caused or affected by the

independent variable Example: grade on final exam

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Random Assignment Essential aspect of experiment Allows us to control for all potential

confounds Each subject has an equal chance of being

in each group. Intact groups not random Replication to deal with chance variation

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EXPERIMENT Double-blind

– to avoid social expectations– to avoid demand characteristics

External validity-extent to which we can generalize

Analogue-animals, cold water immersion as stress

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Overdiagnosed, Welch, Schwartz & Woloshin

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Overdiagnosed, Welch, Schwartz & Woloshin

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Randomized Clinical Trial

Independent Variable– Treatment group

• Chamomile tea

– Control Group• Other tea

Dependent Variable– Presence of colic

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Randomized Clinical Trial

Results– Treatment group 57

percent better– Control group 26

percent better

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Advantage of Experiment

Can talk about one variable causing another.

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Analog Study

a type of study in psychology that attempts to replicate or simulate, under controlled conditions, a situation analogous to real life

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Clinical Course of self-limiting conditions.

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Dose Response Relationship

A direct, consistent association between an independent variable, such as a behavior, and a dependent variable, such as a disease.

Supports a causal interpretation.

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Dose response relationship

All available prospective studies that measured fitness and categorized participants based on fitness level similarly show a strong inverse dose-response between fitness and risk of developing metabolic syndrome

http://www.health.gov/paguidelines/report/g3_metabolic.aspx

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Dose response

A dose response relationship makes it much less likely that a factor to which the risk factor and the disease are related is an explanation of the underlying risk factor-disease relationship.

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Studies over time

Cross-sectional studies-conducted during only one point in time.

Longitudinal studies follow participants over an extend time period.

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Reliability

Does the test measure consistently?

text: The degree to which test scores are free from errors of measurement

Reliability is necessary but not sufficient

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Measurement Error Measurement error is always present Anything affecting the test score that does

not relate to the issue of interest.– response tendency– social desirability

text: Variation in scores not due to changes in the targeted characteristic.

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Validity Does the test measure

what it is supposed to measure?

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Concurrent Validity A type of criterion validity Concurrent means at the same time Correlate results of one measure with

another variable– measured at the same time.– expected to be related

Example stress profile correlated to medical history.

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Predictive Validity Another type of Criterion validity Can the test predict something it should be

able to predict? Example, stress profile did not predict

symptoms, physician visits or self-perceptions of health

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Epidemiology

Branch of medicine that investigates the frequency and distribution of disease and related factors.

Important in SARS epidemic

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Epidemiology

Prevalence-the proportion of the population that has a particular disease at a specific time.

Incidence-measures the frequency of new cases of the disease.

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Epidemiology

Determine the etiology or origins of a specific disease. To develop and test hypotheses.

Discovering who is more likely to have a disease is useful in determining its cause. SARS as an example

Discovering risk factors such as dirty water or smoking.

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Epidemiology

Mortality- Death rate Morbidity-The rate of incidence of a

disease.

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Epidemiology

A risk factor is any characteristic or condition that occurs with greater frequency in people with a disease than it does in people free from the disease.

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Epidemiology

Presence of a risk factor increases the likelihood of developing the illness.

Suggests primary prevention

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Epidemiology

Relative versus absolute risk.Relative: Considered in comparison with something else

Relative risk the ratio of incidence or prevalence in the exposed group to that of the unexposed group

Absolute risk-The persons chances of developing a disease.

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Test A If around 1,000 people have this test every 2 years, 1

person will be saved from dying from this cancer every 10 years.

  Test B If you have this test every 2 years, it will reduce your

chance of dying from this cancer from around 3 in 1, 000 to 2 in 1,000 over the next 10 years.

  Test C If you have this test every 2 years , it will reduce your

chance of dying from this cancer by around one third over the next 10 years.

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Relative Risk

If you have this test every 2 years , it will reduce your chance of dying from this cancer by around one third over the next 10 years.

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Absolute risk

If you have this test every 2 years, it will reduce your chance of dying from this cancer from around 3 in 1, 000 to 2 in 1,000 over the next 10 years.

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Number needed to treat

If around 1,000 people have this test every 2 years, 1 person will be saved from dying from this cancer every 10 years.

Clinical vs. Statistical significance

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Absolute Risk vs. Relative Risk

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Example New York Times Nov. 08

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Relative Risk 4/8=50%

Absolute risk 8% reduced to 4%A decrease of 4 % points or 4 people per hundred

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Quality of care data

NYT 9/3/04 More than 98 percent of hospitals in the

United States are reporting quality-of-care data for treating heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said yesterday.

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Clinton heart bypass

During Heart bypass surgery blood vessels are taken from elsewhere in the body, often the leg, and sewn in to create detours around coronary artery blockages

516,000 were performed in 2001

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Quality of care data

Clinton hospital 3.93 deaths per hundred versus 2.18 for coronary bypass overall in NY.

Correlational data but they control for 45 risk factors.

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The End