quint (version 1.0)

bcrp: Breast Cancer Recovery Project

Description

Data from a three-arm randomized controlled trial. Women with early-stage breast cancer were randomly assigned to a nutrition intervention ($n = 85$), an education intervention ($n = 83$) or standard care ($n = 84$). They were measured before and after treatment. These data contain the baseline measurement and the 9-month follow-up.

Usage

data(bcrp)

source

The authors thank M.F. Scheier for making his data available.

Details

IMPORANT: for questions about these data contact Elise Dusseldorp: [e-mail].

References

If you use these data, please refer to: Scheier M.F., Helgeson V.S., Schulz R., et al. (2007). Moderators of interventions designed to enhance physical and psychological functioning among younger women with early-stage breast cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 25, 5710-5714. An application of quint to these data is given in: Dusseldorp E. and Van Mechelen I. (2013). Qualitative interaction trees: a tool to identify qualitative treatment-subgroup interactions. Statistics in Medicine, first online 6 Aug 2013. DOI: 10.1002/sim.5933.

Examples

data(bcrp)
names(bcrp)
dim(bcrp)