The paper discusses 'CONSORT' (the Consolidated Standards for Reporting Trials) guidelines referring to planning, preparation, and conducting randomized controlled trials in different areas of psychology. Becoming widely accepted across psychology journals, CONSORT offers presentation standards that allow for both easier and precise comparison of research as well as facilitate concluding from presented results. In particular, the authors addressed suggestions referring to randomization rules, inclusion criteria, intention to treat analysis, selection of primary and secondary outcomes, sample size determination, and employing effect sizes.
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