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Investigating change across time in prevalence or association: the challenges of cross-study comparative research and possible solutions

Cross-study research initiatives to understand change across time are an increasingly prominent component of social and health sciences, yet they present considerable practical, analytical and conceptual challenges. First, we discuss the key challenges to comparative research as a basis for detectin...

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Autores principales: Bann, David, Wright, Liam, Goisis, Alice, Hardy, Rebecca, Johnson, William, Maddock, Jane, McElroy, Eoin, Moulton, Vanessa, Patalay, Praveetha, Scholes, Shaun, Silverwood, Richard J., Ploubidis, George B., O’Neill, Dara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9613735/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36317190
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s44155-022-00021-1
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Sumario:Cross-study research initiatives to understand change across time are an increasingly prominent component of social and health sciences, yet they present considerable practical, analytical and conceptual challenges. First, we discuss the key challenges to comparative research as a basis for detecting societal change, as well as possible solutions. We focus on studies which investigate changes across time in outcome occurrence or the magnitude and/or direction of associations. We discuss the use and importance of such research, study inclusion, sources of bias and mitigation, and interpretation. Second, we propose a structured framework (a checklist) that is intended to provide guidance for future authors and reviewers. Third, we outline a new open-access teaching resource that offers detailed instruction and reusable analytical syntax to guide newcomers on techniques for conducting comparative analysis and data visualisation (in both R and Stata formats). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s44155-022-00021-1.