The authors of the study concluded that dogs on a raw food diet may be a source of environmental contamination, although they caution about
the generalizability of their results due to the small number of dogs studied.
Limitations include small sample size,
generalizability of the results due to ethnicity and gender of participants, and lack of follow - up.
Limitations include
generalizability of the results due to not using a more culturally and socio - economically diverse population and reliability on self - reported measures.
Not exact matches
[9] While some have questioned the
generalizability of the ECLS - K
results due to sampling, [10] the qualitative
result has been replicated using the National Assessment
of Educational Progress (the 2017 Morgan et al. study), the Education Longitudinal Study
of 2002, [11] and the ECLS - Birth Cohort.
Limitations include small sample size, issues with the randomization
of participants that
resulted in differences between the groups at baseline, reliance on self - reported measures as reduction in symptoms were significant for adolescent reports but not for parent report, and
generalizability due to the primarily female participant gender.
Limitations include the lack
of a control group at the post-intervention follow - up and concerns about
generalizability of the
results,
due to the largely white, middle - class, and educated sample.