Not exact matches
We conducted an a priori
subgroup analysis comparing risk of bias, results and conclusions of reviews with
different industry sponsors (for example, cane and beet sugar industry sponsored reviews vs artificial sweetener industry sponsored reviews).
Planned
subgroup analyses involved comparisons between
different approaches to delivery for four key characteristics: group or individual or self - administered, length of programme (same or
different), index child involvement or adjunctive treatment.
Although the results of the meta - regression showed no evidence of significant heterogeneity between
subgroups, summary association estimates were slightly
different in
subgroup analyses by study design and exposure assessment.
Therefore, for the review's four primary outcomes we carried out
subgroup analysis to explore the impact of interventions involving
different types of supporter (professional versus lay person, or both); types of support (face - to - face versus telephone support or both); timing of support (antenatal and postnatal versus postnatal alone); whether the support was proactive (scheduled contacts) or reactive (women needed to request support); and whether support interventions had similar effects in settings with
different background breastfeeding initiation rates (low, medium or high background rates).
The
analysis calculated rates of vaginal birth of a healthy singleton at term in natural and assisted reproduction conception comparing women in the intervention (lifestyle modification) group and those in the control (prompt treatment) group according to six
different subgroups: these
subgroups were defined by age (over or under 36 years), cycle regularity (ovulatory or anovulatory) and body weight (above or below a BMI of 35 kg / m2).
The benefits of gabapentin were also similar on
analysis of
different subgroups, including patient considered at high risk of nausea and vomiting.
Additionally, whereas the BioCycle Study had greater racial diversity than comparable studies (3 — 6), our study was limited by
different sample sizes among the racial groups, which may have limited our power to detect significant differences in some of our
subgroup analyses.
For my nine insurance
subgroups (bigger than Mr. Spehar's
analysis — I cover them all), almost all of the intercept terms are
different than zero with statistical significance.
8 One problem, they note, may be that the overall picture may be merging
subgroups that are going in
different directions — so it may require more refined
analyses to discern differential impacts.
For example, a tobacco - focused review which included any intervention type, classified interventions with a component of resilience content into
different subgroups such as social competence or social influence interventions, finding evidence for both broad intervention approaches.6 For the alcohol - focused review, only universal interventions were included with such interventions grouped according to whether they targeted alcohol alone or targeted multiple substance types.5 While meta -
analysis was not conducted due to the heterogeneity of studies, the review concluded that some psychosocial and developmental prevention programmes were effective.
Subgroup analyses showed that the prevalence of depression and depressive symptoms in
different specialties varied from 17.0 % to 53.0 %.
The additional
analysis indicated that
different subgroups were present for boys and girls.
The nature of significant interaction effects was determined by examining the main effects of sample status separately for the
different levels of the moderator in GLM
analyses of covariance, to statistically test the sample differences within the
subgroups.
Planned
subgroup analyses involved comparisons between
different approaches to delivery for four key characteristics: group or individual or self - administered, length of programme (same or
different), index child involvement or adjunctive treatment.
To identify
different subgroups of adolescents with psychopathic traits, Latent Class
Analyses (LCA; Muthén and Muthén 1998 — 2006) were performed using standardized scores (z - scores).