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Journal of Pediatric Psychology Advance Access originally published online on February 23, 2005
Journal of Pediatric Psychology 2005 30(5):409-412; doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsi064
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Journal of Pediatric Psychology vol. 30 no. 5 © Society of Pediatric Psychology 2005; all rights reserved.

Commentary: Randomized Controlled Trials of Psychological Interventions with Pediatric Populations: The Time has Come and the Journal of Pediatric Psychology is Ready

Dennis Drotar, PhD

Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

All correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Dennis Drotar, Division of Behavioral Pediatrics and Psychology, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, 11100 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-6038. E-mail: dxd3@po.cwru.edu

Received August 9, 2004; revisions received August 24, 2004; accepted August 30, 2004

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The field of intervention research in pediatric psychology has evolved to the point that there are a sufficient number of controlled clinical trials, especially randomized controlled trials (RCTs), to warrant a special ongoing section of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology (JPP) that will be devoted to this topic. There will be a rolling deadline for this section so that manuscripts can be submitted at any time. We are optimistic that an ongoing section of this Journal will serve not only to highlight RCTs of psychological interventions but also to stimulate publication of the results of RCTs for psychological interventions, which are very much needed in the field of pediatric psychology (McGrath, Stinson, & Davidson, 2003Go). One reason to develop this special section of the Journal is that controlled intervention studies, especially RCTs, raise difficult methodological, practical, and ethical challenges that need to be considered by researchers, reviewers, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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