Behavioral Clinical Trials for Chronic Diseases: Scientific Foundations (Hardcover, 2021)

Introduction: the window of opportunity.- A selected history of randomized behavioral clinical trials: what we learned.- A clinically significant problem and a clincially significant benefit.- The process of developing a behavioral treatment for chronic disease.- The hypothesized pathway from behavioral treatment to chronic disease.- Equipoise, blinding, and investigator discipline.- Sensitivity to diversity.- Protection of randomization.- Choice of appropriate control group.- Readiness to conduct a behavioral randomized clinical trial.- Concluding remarks.