BACKGROUND The evaluation of more than one intervention in the same randomised controlled trial can be achieved using a parallel group design. However this requires increased sample size and can be inefficient, especially if there is also interest in considering combinations of the interventions. An alternative may be a factorial trial, where for two interventions participants are allocated to ...

After various types of emergencies, victims and rescuers will have negative psychological and mental reactions, such as stress response, psychological disorder. In this case, making the right group decision is the most important issue. It proposes the concept model of group emotional intelligence, adopts 2x2 factorial design, carries on survival experiment including 52 groups, and analyzes the ...

The problem was to test the applicability of Fiedler•s contingency model on 15 adult-led groups of children in a field situation. The effectiveness of high and low least preferred co-worker (LPC) leaders on structured and unstructured group tasks was investigated when leadermember relations were good and leaders had strong power. The data were analyzed in a 2 x 2 factorial design using the anal...

solid lipid nanoparticles of atovaquone (atq-sln) were prepared by high shearhomogenization method using tripalmitin, trilaurin, and compritol 888 ato as the lipidmatrices and phospholipon 90h, tween 80, and poloxamer 188 as the surfactants. optimizationof the formulations was conducted using 6 sets of 24 full-factorial design based on fourindependent variables that were the number of homogeniz...