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J Hodel

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PubMed1977

[How blind is a double-blind trial really? Validity of controlled investigations].

During a double blind trial lasting 4 weeks (Diazepam versus Loxapin), two investigators tried to identify the given drug prematurely. Only the more experienced investigator was able to identify the two drugs (p = 0.01). His judgement was based neither on observation of side-effects nor on a clinical improvement but apparently on a summary of particular subtle effects, the cognition of which requires a specific experience. The use of an adequate comparative drug instead of a placebo in a double blind study does not completely prevent a premature decoding but should reduce this risk and therefore increase the validity of the method.

Anxiety↗
PubMed1975

[Psychodiagnostic factors of indication for abortion].

The psychodiagnostic indication for abortion was investigated by means of the MMPI in 251 women with unwanted pregnancy. The results showed: 1. that, independently of the MMPI, positive indications exhibited more obvious psychopathological distrubance than the negative indications; 2. that women with negative indications where in some ways psychologically different from women with wanted pregnancy; 3. that after abortion women with positive indication no longer differed from a group of women with wanted pregnancy, so that the former could be identified as psychologically well adjusted; and 4. comparison between women with unwanted pregnancy and a group of neurotic women showed that both groups are phenomenologically very similar although women with unwanted pregnancy should be diagnosed as "reactive". The results are presented without comment as a basis for the medical and political debate now in progress.

Abortion, Induced↗