DANCE AND EQUINE-ASSISTED THERAPY IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER: CROSSOVER RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL
Caroline Souza-Santos, Josefa Franciane dos Santos, Isabela Azevedo-Santos, LavíniaTeixeira-Machado
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- Correction notice Expression of Concern RE: Souza-Santos C, Dos Santos JF, Azevedo-Santos I, Teixeira-Machado L. Dance and equine-assisted therapy in autism spectrum disorder: Crossover randomized clinical trial. Clinical Neuropsychiatry. [Article]. 2018;15(5):284-90. Our reader Maria Yee sent the Editors the following message: “I note that baseline descriptive data in Table 1 show that five of the variables namely, Age, Gender, Height, Weight, and therefore BMI, are exactly identical down to the standard deviation across the three research groups. The P-value of these variables is therefore listed as 1. I wanted to clarify if this is indeed the case, and not an error in publishing. It is rare for a research project to be able to recruit 45 subjects, split across three groups by randomisation, and have a P-value of 1 for multiple descriptive variables. I look forward to hearing back from you.” Following our request for an explanation, the senior author replied that: “The values are actually similar at baseline and throughout the study because we designed a crossover clinical trial, that is, the same participants were included in all study groups.” We found the explanation unsatisfactory because the text reports that the data refer to three different groups of participants. Despite multiple attempts to contact the senior author of the article for further explanation, our efforts were unsuccessful. Therefore, we caution readers that the data presented in the Table may be incorrect.
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