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Concerning study says psychotherapy research has a problem with undeclared researcher bias
有关研究表明:心理治疗研究有着未申明研究者成见的问题
By Alex Fradera
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When a good doctor encounters research comparing the effectiveness of drugs A and B, she knows to beware the fact that B was created by the people paying the researchers’ salaries. Pharmaceutical industry funding can be complex, but the general principle of declaring financial conflicts of interest is now embedded in medical research culture. Unfortunately, research into psychological therapies doesn’t yet seem to have got its house in order in an equivalent way. That’s according to a new open access article in the journal BMJ Open which suggests that, while there is less risk in this field of financially-based conflicts, researchers may be particularly vulnerable to non-financial biases, a problem that hasn’t been adequately acknowledged until now.
当一个好医生遇到一项对药物A和药物B的有效性进行比较的研究时,她懂得提防的事实是,药物B是由支付研究人员薪水之人创造的。医药行业的资金相当的复杂,但是,现在,财务利益冲突的申明已经内嵌在医学研究文化原则之中了。不幸的是,似乎心理治疗方法的研究还没有以同等的方式整顿好它的内务。《英国医学杂志》可公开访问的文章认为,当这一领域经济基础的矛盾风险较少时,研究人员可能特别容易受到非财务的偏见,这个问题,直到现在还没有得到充分的承认。
The research team, led by Klaus Lieb of the University of Mainz, examined 95 systematic and meta-analytic reviews that had evaluated the efficacy of psychological therapies by looking at the weight of evidence across multiple randomised controlled trials. Such reviews are generally used to give a balanced picture of what really works, above and beyond a single trial.