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Journal of Pediatric Psychology 19(4) pp. 403-414, 1994
© 1994 Society of Pediatric Psychology

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Psychological Research with Pediatric Conditions: If We Specialize, Can We Generalize?1

Dennis Drotar2

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

2All correspondence should be sent to Dennis Drotar, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, MetroHealth Medical Center, 2500 MetroHealth Drive, Cleveland. Ohio 44109-1998

Considered threats to validity and generalizability of psychological research with pediatric populations and proposed ways to better understand and manage these problems. Variation due to characteristics of acute and chronic conditions (e.g., duration, severity, illness course), settings and referral patterns, family environmental characteristics, as well as investigators' decisions concerning criteria and recruitment limit inferences concerning the impact of pediatric conditions on psychological development and generalizability of findings. These problems call for an expanded use of replication, cross-center, population-based, and theory-driven research. Scientific progress will be made by increasing dialogues and collaboration among researchers concerning generalizability problems and improving research training in epidemiological methods, analysis of large-scale data sets, and meta-analysis.

Key words: psychological research; generalizability.


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