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Letter Report on Review of Department of Veterans Affairs Monograph on Potential Therapeutic Effects of Service and Emotional Support Dogs on Veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (2021)

Chapter: Attachment E: Additional Minor Points for the VA Study Team to Consider

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Suggested Citation:"Attachment E: Additional Minor Points for the VA Study Team to Consider." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Letter Report on Review of Department of Veterans Affairs Monograph on Potential Therapeutic Effects of Service and Emotional Support Dogs on Veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26039.
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Attachment E
Additional Minor Points for the VA Study Team to Consider

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Page 69 (lines 1822–1831)
  1. It would be helpful to clearly define linear repeated measures mixed model and contrast it with the linear repeated measures mixed model with random intercepts. The reader may presume that the first, without random intercept, may be a standard linear repeated measures model with some covariance structure. The covariance structure assumptions should also be specified.
  2. It would be helpful to state here what type of contrast coding is used for inference (dummy, sum, effect coding, etc.).
Page 150 (line 3256) Reference listed as M.B. McConnell. This should be P.B. McConnell.
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In response to a request from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, this publication reviews the Department of Veterans Affairs Monograph titled A Randomized Trial of Differential Effectiveness of Service Dog Pairing Versus Emotional Support Dog Pairing to Improve Quality of Life for Veterans with PTSD. Review of Department of Veterans Affairs Monograph on Potential Therapeutic Effects of Service and Emotional Support Dogs on Veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder critiques the draft monograph and reviews it for consistency with accepted scientific principles and its suitability for publication.

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