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2024 · Letter · Science & medicine in football

Individually randomized trial mislabeled as a cluster-randomized trial. Comment on: "Effectiveness of wearable technology to optimize youth soccer players' off-training behaviour and training responses: a cluster-randomized trial"

Jean Michel R S Leite; Jasmine Jamshidi-Naeini; Colby J Vorland; Lilian Golzarri-Arroyo; David B Allison

Identifies a youth soccer study as individually randomized despite its description as a cluster-randomized trial.

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sports-science · pediatrics · clinical-trials

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  • Jean Michel R S Leite: Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. · ORCID 0000-0002-4820-7743
  • Jasmine Jamshidi-Naeini: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN. · ORCID 0000-0003-4769-2764
  • Colby J Vorland: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN. · ORCID 0000-0003-4225-372X
  • Lilian Golzarri-Arroyo: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN. · ORCID 0000-0002-1221-6701
  • David B Allison: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN. · ORCID 0000-0003-3566-9399

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