Summary: Meta-Analysis

The purpose of this research is to review factors that trigger elderly depression states, their physical and mental health conditions,

During meta-analysis, response rates varied by type of measure and study design, only 50% reported response rates (range = 21% - 95%, median=71%. 29% declined participating because they had no interest and 24% declined with no reason given. One major reason people declined to participate was because they had no access or could not use a computer. Multiple time measures were conducted in decision regret, it was noted that responses were reduced (Biedrzycki, 2010).

When conducting a research study, it is important to do so ethically and competently. This is also important because as future social workers we must abide by the ethical principles in the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics (NASW). Conducting ethical research pertains to respecting the inherent dignity and worth of a person. In the past, individuals have had their rights violated during research study’s. As a result, in 1974 there was legislation passed protecting the rights of all vulnerable individuals participating in study’s.

Meta-analysis has been much debated and criticized since its creation, and it has been argued that systematic reviews are superior. The present study examined the reverse idea – that meta-analysis is the superior method. A literature search was conducted of meta-analysis studies for psychotherapy within the PsycINFO database. The resulting studies were further examined and classified as either primary articles or secondary articles. Primary articles were further examined for secondary articles associated with them. It was found that there was some criticism within the literature. The results were compared to a study of systematic review literature conducted at the same time. The

2. a. Meta-Analysis- A statistical tool that incorporates data and results from many different studies of the same topic previously conducted into a one large analysis to further derive or validate conclusions of said topic of research. In a clinical aspect, this tool is provides a more precise look into the effect of a treatment on an ailment than just a single study may

A meta-analysis performed by Gu et al compared the safety and efficacy of propofol with midazolam for sedation of patients with severe traumatic brain injury. Gu et al performed this meta-analysis because of the lack of systematic reviews or meta-analysis available, which focus on TBI patients in the comparison of the safety and efficacy of propofol and midazolam.

On March 22, 2014, Annemarie K. Loth, Deborah A. G Drabrick, Ellen Leibenluft, and Leslie A. Hulvershorn released an article called Do Children Externalizing disorders predict adult depression? A Meta-Analysis. This article is located in the J Abnorm Child Psychol (2014) vol. 42, page 1103-1113. The given study was to analyze children with symptoms or the disorder of depression and the growth of adult depression. They preformed a statistical procedure for combining date from multiple to achieve their meta-analysis result. It was believed that children's psychopath disorders would be able predict depression for adulthood. The researchers hypothesis believed that there will be a connection between adult depression happen due to children showing

This evidence summary is based on organized search of the literature and evidence-based healthcare/nursing databases. The evidence included in this summary is from Sherrington, C., Tiedemann, A., Fairhall, N., Close, J., & Lord, S. (2011). Exercise to prevent falls in older adults: an updated meta-analysis and best practice recommendations. NSW Public Health Bulletin 22(4) 78-83. This systematic review update leverages off of an earlier study conducted in 2008, and the objective was to prove that exercise as a single intervention can prevent falls in elderly people. It included people living in residential care settings. The methodology used in this update was the same as the methodology used in the original study in 2008. This included a search of electronic databases like utilizing OVID to search MEDLINE, EMBASE, and CINAHL. For this update, databases were searched up to May 2010. Meta-regression analysis was applied to this study to explain variability between the two studies. The reason for this is that the new study

Mental disorders are becoming more prevalent in today's society as people add stress and pressure to their daily lives. The elderly population is not eliminated as a candidate for a disorder just because they may be retired. In fact, mental disorders affect 1 in 5 elderly people. One would think that with disorders being rather prevalent in this age group that there would be an abundance of treatment programs, but this is not the case. Because the diagnosis of an individual's mental state is subjective in nature, many troubled people go untreated regularly (summer 1998). Depression in the elderly population is a common occurrence, yet the diagnosis and treatment seem to slip

Despite the shortcomings of this article which lack ethical, cultural, sensitive information gathered, it still provides insight for practitioners and policy makers because it increases awareness of an issue facing a vulnerable population and it coincides with the mission of social work, seeking to meet the needs of a vulnerable population. Through research evaluation, social work practitioners seek to enhance their competency as practitioners and assess whether or not conducting additional research on this topic is feasible and an appropriate use of resources. The article posits that formal ethical approval was not required because it was deemed to be a study evaluation, even so they failed to include ethical considerations and include feedback from families who received very brief advice from SHS from HPC trained from this module. The limitations of the training module, such as the low response rate, small sample size, and the training software which is no longer used did not allow for participants to report who received the same questions at all three points, or the difficulty of the individual MCQ’s, are now identified and can be avoided if future research is conducted on this

This was a cross-sectional study, conducted using data collected from four hospitals affiliated with the Medical Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS). The four hospitals were chosen because they vary in the demographics of the communities they serve, in size and setting. Hospital 1 is a 918-bed general hospital with an average of approximately 4517 inpatients per month (mean 4517.3, standard deviation [SD] ± 417); Hospital 2 is a 837-bed general hospital with an average of approximately 5121 inpatients per month (mean 5120.6, SD ± 385); Hospital 3 is a 136-bed woman’s hospital with an average of approximately 1073 inpatients per month

Patten (2014) defines meta-analysis as “a set of statistical methods for combining the results of previous studies” and the conclusions are based on “mathematical synthesis” (p. 151). Cohn and Becker (2003) offer a reason why meta-analysis is done “conducting a meta-analysis is the increase in statistical power that it affords a reviewer” (p. 243). There are two goals for meta-analysis research. They include to estimate a population effect-size parameter and to increase the precision of the estimate of the effect size parameter (Cohn & Becker, 2003). There are two types of meta-analyses. They include fixed effect model and random effects model (Borenstein, Hedges, & Rothstein, 2007). Fixed effects models deals with only one true effect size in which all of the studies that are used whereas random effects refers to when the true effect varies between each individual study that is pulled (2007).

In this article, the authors used meta-analysis to address the efficacy of self-management education programs in managing symptoms and improving functions in people with arthritis. The American College of Rheumatology Sub-committee recommends that self-management education be an integral part of treatment programs for patients diagnosed with osteoarthritis. Results from the meta-analysis showed a moderate effect on pain and a small effect on disability, based on Cohen’s classification. The study discussed the importance of understanding the efficacy of self-management education programs in different settings before allocating resources to the programs.

Voyer, Daniel,Voyer, Susan D. Said that, female students or a female person has more achievements in academics, and it is a common finding when searching about gender differences between male and female when it comes to whos more efficient in academics. But still there are still questions concerning the quantificatio of these two genders and their differences, and the identification of relevant moderator variables. There is a present meta analysis made and its somehow answere the concerning questions about the gender differences when it comes to efficiency, by examining studies that included an evaluation about gender differences, including teachers, students junior high school, senior high school or even college students, both undergraduate

Now this work will attempt to examine the different approaches that feminists apply to social work. According to Collins English Dictionary, “social work” means “social services that give help and advice to the poor, the elderly, and families with problems.” (www.collinslanguage.com). It is very hard to define social work as its work is so varied and sparse within society today. Feminist social workers tend to work more with women and help them to understand and alleviate their problems. Dominelli (1997: 246) postulates “ I define feminist social work as a form of social work practice which takes gendered inequality and it’s elimination as the starting point for working