Unreliable Findings Due to Miscalculations and Errors. Comment on Nally et al. The Effectiveness of School-Based Interventions on Obesity-Related Behaviours in Primary School Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials.

Keara Ginell, Beate Henschel, Lilian Golzarri-Arroyo, Yasaman Jamshidi-Naeini, Andrew W Brown, David B Allison

Abstract read

In one paragraph

Article in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

2citing papers in PubMed

–field-weighted citation impact

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Keara GinellDepartment of Cognitive Science, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6928-1080

Beate HenschelDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0708-5660

Lilian Golzarri-ArroyoDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1221-6701

Yasaman Jamshidi-NaeiniDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4769-2764

Andrew W BrownDepartment of Applied Health Science, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.

David B AllisonDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3566-9399

Funding

Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity ResearchR25HL124208 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI ALLISON, DAVID B, BROWN, ANDREW W · 2014 to 2023

$1.8M

The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity ResearchR25DK099080 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI DAVID B ALLISON, Andrew W Brown · 2013 to 2026

$1.2M

NHLBI NIH HHS R25 HL124208NIDDK NIH HHS R25 DK099080NIH HHS R25HL124208, R25DK099080

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nally et al. [...].

Identifiers

PMID37892323

DOI10.3390/children10101660

PMCPMC10605774

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