Completer’s Analysis
An intention-to-treat analysis allows one to assess whether An alternative analysis approach is to perform a completer’s analysis, in which the data of only those participants are analyzed who actually use the intervention. A completer’s analysis allows one to assess whether Another rationale for using an intention-to-treat analysis is that, in the presence of dropouts, including all participants in the analysis maintains the equivalence established among the different groups at the baseline. Although we performed a completer’s analysis, we found that the baseline equivalence was also maintained in our data. The baseline PHQ-9 scores for all the participants who were included in our primary analysis after removing dropouts remained similar (Kruskal-Wallis H(2)=1.11; 