Investigating change across time in prevalence or association: the challenges of cross-study comparative research and possible solutions.
Investigating change across time in prevalence or association: the challenges of cross-study comparative research and possible solutions.
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10.1007/s44155-022-00021-1
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2022
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跨学科的研究举措，以了解随着时间的推移变化是社会和健康科学的一个日益突出的组成部分，但他们提出了相当大的实际，分析和概念上的挑战。首先，我们讨论了比较研究的主要挑战，作为检测社会变化的基础，以及可能的解决方案。我们专注于研究结果发生或关联的幅度和/或方向随时间的变化。我们讨论了这种研究的用途和重要性，研究纳入，偏见和缓解的来源，以及解释。其次，我们提出了一个结构化的框架（清单），旨在为未来的作者和评论家提供指导。第三，我们概述了一个新的开放获取教学资源，提供详细的指导和可重复使用的分析语法，以指导新人进行比较分析和数据可视化（R和Stata格式）的技术。在线版本包含补充材料，可通过10.1007/s44155-022-00021-1获取。
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). The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s44155-022-00021-1.