Funding has been secured to test the efficacy of a new antidepressant. Participants who have been diagnosed with depression have been recruited and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups
Members of both groups have had the severity of their depression gauged by a reliable and valid instrument. Over the next several weeks, the experimental group has been administered the new drug while the control group received standard treatment. At the completion of the study, the same instrument was used to measure depressive symptoms. Which of the following study designs has the research team utilized?
A) Two-group RCT with pretest/posttest
B) Two-group RCT with true control group
C) Two-group RCT with long-term repeated measures
D) Two-group RCT with posttest design only
A
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