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They did a 3-month followup: >Of the 33 individuals who were able to be contacted, 7 (21.2%) said they had maintained the diet, 19 (57.6%) reported they had mai

They did a 3-month followup: >Of the 33 individuals who were able to be contacted, 7 (21.2%) said they had maintained the diet, 19 (57.6%) reported they had maintained some aspects of the diet and 7 (21.2%) reported they had not maintained the diet. There was no difference in depression outcomes between these 3 groups (chi-square >.05). They don't seem to have done the 3-month follow up with the control group.

AstralStorm 7y ago
It's super tiny group anyway - the experiment is highly underpowered even if they did check control group. Most importantly it is not a cross design, and even that would need in excess of hundred patients to be meaningful. As is they can be measuring the effect of attention and any kind of change on depression, given some genetic, phenotypical or environmental susceptibilities incidentally found in their treatment group. Meaning the conclusion is not possible to generalize. These tiny studies, especially of low quality and poor design are an annoying waste of time and money.