Standardization in psychological research.

Standardization of Nomenclature in Acupuncture Research (SoNAR)

As more clinical acupuncture trials for pain are published, it becomes increasingly difficult to compare and evaluate the merits and shortcomings of such studies. A major contributory factor to this centers on the description of, and the assumptions made about, the control intervention used. In considering an acupuncture control, it is important to evaluate its physiological activity and thus f...

Methods in Psychological Research

Designing and Standardization of a Research Questionnaire to Evaluate the Research Experience in Thesis Process at Tabriz Pharmacy Faculty

Introduction: A significant proportion of research is conducted by graduate students in universities of medical science. The aim was to design and standardize the research questionnaire to determine the students’ satisfaction of the thesis course conducted in the Pharmacy Faculty of Tabriz medical university. Method and Materials: The present research is the original study and the method is bas...

Introducing a Method for Achieving Standardization and Harmonization in Clinical and Research Laboratory Centers

Abstract Background and Objective: Proficiency testing schemes as a part of quality system in clinical and research laboratory centers provides the opportunity to evaluate the quality of test results. In this paper, we try to introduce the proficiency testing schemes as a useful method for achieving standardization and homogenization of test results in clinical and research laboratory center...

Statistical significance in psychological research.

Most theories in the areas of personality, clinical, and social psychology predict no more than the direction of a correlation, group difference, or treatment effect. Since the null hypothesis is never strictly true, such predictions have about a SO-SO chance of being confirmed by experiment when the theory in question is false, since the statistical significance of the result is a function of ...