20250108 - manipulated assessment example

06-Validity.Rmd

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 An advantage of this design is that you can be certain that the treatment decisions are explicitly informed by the assessment results because the researcher ensures this, whereas the decision of how the assessment information is used is up to the clinician in manipulated assessment.\index{validity!treatment utility of assessment}\index{validity!treatment utility of assessment!manipulated use}
 
 Relatively few measures show evidence of treatment utility of assessment.\index{validity!treatment utility of assessment}
+For instance, a clinical trial using the manipulated assessment approach determined that the Development and Well-Being Assessment (DAWBA) did not show treatment utility as a diagnostic assessment for children and adolescents [@Sayal2025].\index{validity!treatment utility of assessment}
 A review on the treatment utility of assessment is provided by @NelsonGray2003.\index{validity!treatment utility of assessment}
 
 #### Discriminative Validity {#discriminativeValidity}