| Ref ID | 1063 |
| First Author | J. Sonis |
| Journal | CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW |
| Year Of Publishing | 2023 |
| URL | https://www-sciencedirect-com.sheffield.idm.oclc.org/science/article/pii/S0272735823000818?via%3Dihub |
| Keywords |
• Mental health • Missing data |
| Problem(s) |
• Errors in study inclusion or omission of relevant studies • Ignores setting or context of included studies which limits review applicability |
| Article Type | Editorial |
| Article Subtype | Comment/letter |
| First Author Country | United States |
| Aim | To highlight some concerns in a systematic review of mediators of treatments for PTSD published in 2023. |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | The letter's authors found the following concerns relating to the conduct of the systematic review. The authors did not: 1) include the causal mediation framework to help guide the methodological standards included in the review; 2) recognise the ramifications of the fact that many of the included studies used time, rather than treatment type, as the primary independent variable of interest; 3) include assessment of mediator-outcome confounding in their list of methodological standards. Another limitation was exclusive focus on statistical significance and a vote-counting approach for assessing mediators the PTSD research literature. |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 1 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 1 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
| Treatment impacted description | |
| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
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