nontreatment
- noun
- /ˌnɒnˈtritmənt/
- Specialized
:
no tratamiento
- The noncompletion rate for the control group was similar to the results of Olenchak's (1988) research that reported that approximately 27% of the students in his nontreatment study failed to finish their Type III investigations.
Examples
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Seriously, to show that any remedy (including homeopathic and other alternative medicine ones) actually works, there has to be a difference between treatment and nontreatment.
Blog text (14) -
To think about this nontreatment situation in other settings, consider that some eminent scientists in the university hospital have designed a drug to combat cancer and wish to test its effectiveness.
Academic text (2006) -
You will be evaluating student performance in what is, in essence, a nontreatment or placebo.
Academic text (2006) -
Middle and high schools; spoken with parents, nontreatment control in with friends smoking prevention trial; 12.66 mean age; 52% girls; 47% PR; 17%.
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Thus, the generalizability to more natural conditions may be confounded by the use of nontreatment implementors as subjects.
Academic text (1992) -
Although social validation measures supported the meaningfulness of the treatment, there was no determination of whether these skills generalized to nontreatment situations or positively affected interpersonal interactions.
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These findings are consistent with Olenchak's research, which reported a mean score of 53.21 for the quality of nontreatment student products as measured by the SPAF (Renzulli & Reis, 1985).
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Results from the one-way ANOVAs and chi-square analyses show that the propensity score matching method successfully removed any significant observable differences in the intake measures between the treatment and nontreatment groups, with the exception of some significant age differences between groups.
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In many studies, researchers compare the effects of a new treatment with those of a nontreatment group to assess the treatment's effectiveness.
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The nontreatment approach allowed the patients to experience their conditions without any medical intervention.
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Etymology
Nontreatment breaks down into non- meaning 'not' and treatment, from treat meaning 'to care for' or 'to give medical help'. So nontreatment means the decision or situation of 'not giving care' or therapy, as when a study watches people who do not get the new medicine.