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Study shows that digital treatment with Tetris gameplay can dramatically reduce trauma memories (www.ox.ac.uk)
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[–] 0 points 8 months ago (7 children)

It's too good, and its funded by a corporation, and its got a very low sample size, and it's tied in with some wacky "digital therapy solution". I wouldn't be surprised if the control groups actually worsened because the service just sucked and the tetris version included less of that service.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I'll copy my reply from below as well:

    how would it possibly be bad in factors other than efficacy, like BetterHelp was due to data nightmares and advertising a different mechanism? this isn't even online

    99 is a more than enough sample size as this RCT's Bayes factor is 114 and 15.8 for better efficacy than -control and -regular treatment respectively, which corresponds to "extreme" and "strong evidence" (Lee and Wagenmakers 2013, p. 105; adjusted from Jeffreys, 1961). The Lancet also peer-reviewed the claim "The Bayesian adaptive trial design enabled efficient evaluation with early stopping when convincing evidence was reached (n=99).[2]"

    indeed further testing is needed to establish subgroup effects and improve generalizability but this is already quite promising

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  • [–] -4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Fuck off, dude, you expect me to treat you seriously when you defend a company that commodified mental illness?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    i have never supported or defended BetterHelp

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  • [–] -5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    You said the only bad thing about it was low efficacy. Fuck you.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago*

    that was the opposite of what i meant; sorry i was unclear. when I said "how would it possibly be bad in factors other than efficacy, like BetterHelp was due to data nightmares and advertising a different mechanism" i meant that BetterHelp had many reasons it was bad other than efficacy like data nightmares and advertising a different mechanism, and asked how the tetris treatment would replicate BetterHelp's notorious woes

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