Nita Signed Up for a Medication Trial at the Local

question 170

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Nita signed up for a medication trial at the local hospital. She was informed that she would be in the group taking a new diet pill and other groups would be taking a new energy pill. Nita began to notice that her clothes felt different, even though the scale showed no difference in her weight. She continued to feel like she was losing weight. At the end of the 6-week trial she was informed by researchers that she in fact was taking a water pill that would have no effect on weight loss. Nita was in the:

• A) empty control group.
• B) experimental group.
• C) placebo group.
• D) baseline group.

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