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ReviewPrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2022

Network Meta-Analysis Techniques for Synthesizing Prevention Science Evidence.

G Seitidis, S Nikolakopoulos, E A Hennessy, E E Tanner-Smith, D Mavridis

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Review in Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

G SeitidisDepartment of Primary Education, School of Education, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece. g.seitidis@uoi.gr.ORCID 0000-0003-0856-1892
S NikolakopoulosDepartment of Primary Education, School of Education, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
E A HennessyRecovery Research Institute, Center for Addiction Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
E E Tanner-SmithDepartment of Counseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
D MavridisDepartment of Primary Education, School of Education, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Network meta-analysis is a popular statistical technique for synthesizing evidence from studies comparing multiple interventions. Benefits of network meta-analysis, over more traditional pairwise meta-analysis approaches, include evaluating efficacy/safety of interventions within a single framework, increased precision, comparing pairs of interventions that have never been directly compared in a trial, and providing a hierarchy of interventions in terms of their effectiveness. Network meta-analysis is relatively underutilized in prevention science. This paper therefore presents a primer of network meta-analysis for prevention scientists who wish to apply this method or to critically appraise evidence from publications using the method. We introduce the key concepts and assumptions of network meta-analysis, namely, transitivity and consistency, and demonstrate their applicability to the field of prevention science. We then illustrate the method using a network meta-analysis examining the comparative effectiveness of brief alcohol interventions for preventing hazardous drinking among college students. We provide data and code for all examples. Finally, we discuss considerations that are particularly relevant in network meta-analyses in the field of prevention, such as including non-randomized evidence.

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PMID34387806

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