question archive A physical therapist wants to compare the effectiveness of traditional massage, craniosacral therapy (CST), and aquatic therapy to reduce pain experienced by people with fibromyalgia (chronic aching muscle pain not related to trauma)
A physical therapist wants to compare the effectiveness of traditional massage, craniosacral therapy (CST), and aquatic therapy to reduce pain experienced by people with fibromyalgia (chronic aching muscle pain not related to trauma)
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A physical therapist wants to compare the effectiveness of traditional massage, craniosacral therapy (CST), and aquatic therapy to reduce pain experienced by people with fibromyalgia (chronic aching muscle pain not related to trauma). He has a random sample of 30 people drawn from a group of 600 people diagnosed with fibromyalgia who are being treated in the pain clinic of a major metropolitan hospital. The therapist randomly assigned each person to one of the three treatment groups: traditional massage, CST, or aquatic therapy. The subjects will receive the treatment three times per week for 2 months. The outcome measure that the therapist will use is a standard pain scale (very reliable and valid), with 0 being no pain, and 4 being excruciating pain.
The most appropriate statistical test to examine the research question that there is a difference in the effectiveness of traditional massage, CST, or aquatic therapy to reduce the pain in people with fibromyalgia would be:
Regression (or the nonparametric alternative)
Correlation (or the nonparametric alternative)
ANOVA (or the nonparametric alternative)
Dependent t-test (or the nonparametric alternative)
Independent t-test (or the nonparametric alternative)
