A Psychiatrist Is Interested in Comparing Two Different Drugs to Treat

question 260

Multiple Choice

A psychiatrist is interested in comparing two different drugs to treat depression in a sample of patients.Because the drugs may differ in terms of both their effectiveness and side effects,patients are randomly assigned to the two drug conditions.Randomly assigning patients to groups satisfies which feature of ethical research?

• A)external validity
• B)beneficence
• C)being just
• D)respecting people

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