What does smart design mean?

The Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART)—a type of research design—was developed explicitly for the purpose of building optimal adaptive interventions by providing answers to such questions.

Who owns Smart Design?

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What is a smart trial?

A SMART is a multistage, randomized trial in which each stage corresponds to an important treatment decision point. Participants are enrolled in a SMART and followed throughout the trial, but each participant may be randomized more than once.

What is a micro randomized trial?

Micro-randomized trial design Micro-randomization involves randomly assigning an intervention option at each relevant decision point: a point in time when—based on theory, participant’s past behavior, and the participant’s current context—a particular intervention component might be efficacious.

What is sequential randomization?

Sequential randomization refers to the randomization of an individual multiple times throughout the course of the trial. Suppose there are two types of interventions, such as learners in a MOOC receiving videos taught by a female instructor (intervention A) or a male instructor ( intervention B).

What is a just in time intervention?

Background: The just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI) is an intervention design aiming to provide the right type/amount of support, at the right time, by adapting to an individual’s changing internal and contextual state.

What are smart trials?

Overview: Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trials (SMARTs) randomize participants into different sequences of intervention options based on a set of decision rules about when to adjust a participant’s treatment. Participants who do not show the desired outcome are then randomized to one of these options.

What is sequential assignment?