Question

In the following study, describe the treatment, the treatment group and the control group: One hundred arthritis suffers reported the severity of their symptoms daily for a month. Fifty of the subjects were given Epsom salt to bathe in at least every other day. At the end of the month, 30% the subjects who used Epsom salt reported decrease in severity of their symptoms compared to 5% in the other group.

Answer 1

Treatment: Epsom salt

Control Group: 50 people not receiving the Epsom salt to bathe

Treatment Group: 50 people that received the Epsom salt to bathe

Explanation:

Treatment refers to the object in which is being used to treat the patients.

Control Group means the group that didn't receive any treatment, remained neutral to the experiment.

Treatment group is the group that received treatment.