Failure to Report Effect Sizes: The Handling of Quantitative Results in Published Health Education and Behavior Research

Autor/inn/en	Barry, Adam E.; Szucs, Leigh E.; Reyes, Jovanni V.; Ji, Qian; Wilson, Kelly L.; Thompson, Bruce
Titel	Failure to Report Effect Sizes: The Handling of Quantitative Results in Published Health Education and Behavior Research
Quelle	In: Health Education & Behavior, 43 (2016) 5, S.518-527 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1090-1981
DOI	10.1177/1090198116669521
Schlagwörter	Effect Size; Periodicals; Professional Associations; Journal Articles; Health Education; Health Promotion; Health Behavior; Social Science Research; Online Surveys; Statistical Analysis; Statistical Significance; Research Methodology; Research Problems; Benchmarking; Guidelines + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Periodical; Journal; Zeitschrift; Fachzeitschrift; Periodikum; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gesundheitshilfe; Reihenuntersuchung; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung; Statistische Analyse; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Forschungskritik; Richtlinien
Abstract	Given the American Psychological Association's strong recommendation to always report effect sizes in research, scholars have a responsibility to provide complete information regarding their findings. The purposes of this study were to (a) determine the frequencies with which different effect sizes were reported in published, peer-reviewed articles in health education, promotion, and behavior journals and (b) discuss implications for reporting effect size in social science research. Across a 4-year time period (2010-2013), 1,950 peer-reviewed published articles were examined from the following six health education and behavior journals: "American Journal of Health Behavior," "American Journal of Health Promotion," "Health Education & Behavior," "Health Education Research," "Journal of American College Health," and "Journal of School Health." Quantitative features from eligible manuscripts were documented using Qualtrics online survey software. Of the 1,245 articles in the final sample that reported quantitative data analyses, approximately 47.9% (n = 597) of the articles reported an effect size. While 16 unique types of effect size were reported across all included journals, many of the effect sizes were reported with little frequency across most journals. Overall, odds ratio/adjusted odds ratio (n = 340, 50.1%), Pearson r/r[superscript 2] (n = 162, 23.8%), and eta squared/partial eta squared (n = 46, 7.2%) accounted for the most frequently used effect size. Quality research practice requires both testing statistical significance and reporting effect size. However, our study shows that a substantial portion of published literature in health education and behavior lacks consistent reporting of effect size. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01