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The authors respond to 2 victimological critiques of their 1998 meta-analysis on child sexual abuse (CSA). S. J. Dallam et al. (2001) claimed that B. Rind, P. Tromovitch, and R. Bauserman (1998) committed numerous methodological and statistical errors, and often miscoded and misinterpreted data. The authors show all th…

A meta-analysis of one approach to measuring expectancy and self-efficacy was conducted. Although used for over 25 years, this measure has yet to be named or integrated across the two theoretical domains. We proposed to label this measure a Multilevel Performance Probability and conducted a meta-analysis. The search fo…

This article demonstrates that the weighting-according-to-the-variance method may introduce biases in meta-analyses of binary outcomes. The weighting favors studies that have certain frequencies of outcome events and weights given to studies of the same size may differ tens to thousands of times merely because of varia…

Preventing cancer depends on the ability to recognize and remove causal factors. In current practice, the methods used to judge cause from epidemiologic, clinical trials and biologic evidence include systematic narrative reviews, criteria-based inference methods, and meta-analysis. Subjectivity and values play a key ro…

Meta-analyses of Furberg's original data (after correction of two minor errors) were performed using six different methods. Only three of them gave significant results at p < 0.05. The sensitivity analysis showed that taking into account some of the criticisms applied to the original meta-analysis did not change the re…

1. To state the expected rates of spontaneous improvement for untreated acute otitis media (AOM), recurrent AOM, and otitis media with effusion (OME). 2. To state the expected impact of antibiotic therapy on AOM, recurrent AOM, and OME in terms of the number of children needed to be treated to cure or prevent a single…

Meta-analyses of diagnostic test accuracy are uncommon and often based on separate pooling of sensitivity and specificity, which can lead to biased estimates. Recently, several appropriate methods have been developed for meta-analysing diagnostic test data from primary studies. Primary studies usually only provide bina…

Evaluation of adjuvant immunochemotherapy using Polysaccharide K (PSK) for advanced gastric cancers was performed by meta-analysis of 6 clinical trials in which 5-year survival has been reported in distinguished journals of Japan. The odds ratio of 0.75 (95% confidence interval 0.62-0.93, p < 0.01) favored immunochemot…

Bayes' theorem with the independence assumption is applied to a test sample of 141 subjects, using two sets of test sensitivities and specificities. The first set is derived by averaging over literature reports on the accuracy of the exercise electrocardiogram, exercise thallium scintigraphy, and carciac fluoroscopy. T…

INTRODUCTION: Undergraduate nursing education is essential in preparing competent and compassionate healthcare professionals capable of addressing the complex challenges in today's healthcare landscape. This protocol proposes a systematic review of the educational outcomes of virtual/augmented reality, flipped classroo…

Meta-analysis is used to aggregate the effects of interest across multiple studies, while its methodology is largely underexplored in mediation analysis, particularly in estimating the total mediation effect of high-dimensional omics mediators. Large-scale genomic consortia, such as the Trans-Omics for Precision Medici…

INTRODUCTION: In recent decades, clinical research has seen significant advancements, both in the generation and synthesis of evidence through meta-analyses. Despite these methodological advancements, there is a growing concern about the accumulation of repetitive and redundant literature, potentially contributing to r…

The importance of self-care interventions is progressively recognized, marked by a rapidly aging population that results in growing demands on costly tertiary and institutional care services, placing substantial pressure on health and social care systems. Against this background, in this study, we will provide evidence…

INTRODUCTION: The hospital ethical climate refers to the ethical work environment within a hospital, which may positively or negatively impact individual nurses, nursing organisations and patient care. Most of studies investigating the hospital ethical climate among Korean nurses have been published in Korean. However,…

INTRODUCTION: Stroke is one of the most common causes of death and acquired disability worldwide. The burden of death and disability-adjusted life-years lost (DALYs) in lower-and-middle income countries (LMIC), were 86% and 89%, respectively. Ethiopia, one of SSA countries, is being affected by stroke and its consequen…

BACKGROUND: Epicardial fat represents visceral adiposity. Many observational studies have reported that increased epicardial is associated with adverse metabolic profile, cardiovascular risk factors, and coronary atherosclerosis in patients with cardiovascular diseases and in general population. We and others have prev…

BACKGROUND: Uterine fibroids are common benign tumors in premenopausal women. Surgery is the preferred treatment for symptomatic uterine fibroids. An alternative of hysterectomy to manage symptomatic uterine fibroids is selective uterine artery embolization. We performed a protocol for systematic review and meta-analys…

BACKGROUND: Migraine causes health problems in 1 billion people worldwide and imposes a huge social burden. Acupuncture therapy has a good clinical effect in migraine prophylaxis and is recommended by authoritative journals. We plan to conduct a Bayesian network meta-analysis to compare the efficacies of different acup…

BACKGROUND: Anal sinusitis is an acute or chronic inflammation of the anal sinus, anal flap, and anal glands. There are many traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) therapies for anal sinusitis, and most of them can achieve satisfactory results. Retention enema is one effective treatment for anal sinusitis. Although a numbe…

BACKGROUND: Degenerative lumbar diseases are common in the aging population, and is one of the most frequent causes of disability. Lumbar fusion is an effective surgical procedure for alleviating pain and improving function. A variety of fusion techniques applied where necessary are available and the optimal method rem…