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Editorial Perspective: When is a ‘small effect’ actually large and impactful?

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العنوان: Editorial Perspective: When is a ‘small effect’ actually large and impactful?
المؤلفون: Carey, Emma Grace, Ridler, Isobel, Ford, Tamsin Jane, Stringaris, Argyris
المصدر: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry ; volume 64, issue 11, page 1643-1647 ; ISSN 0021-9630 1469-7610
بيانات النشر: Wiley
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Wiley Online Library (Open Access Articles via Crossref)
الوصف: Reporting of effect sizes is standard practice in psychology and psychiatry research. However, interpretation of these effect sizes can be meaningless or misleading – in particular, the evaluation of specific effect sizes as ‘small’, ‘medium’ and ‘large’ can be inaccurate depending on the research context. A real‐world example of this is research into the mental health of children and young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Evidence suggests that clinicians and services are struggling with increased demand, yet population studies looking at the difference in mental health before and during the pandemic report effect sizes that are deemed ‘small’. In this short review, we utilise simulations to demonstrate that a relatively small shift in mean scores on mental health measures can indicate a large shift in the number of cases of anxiety and depression when scaled up to an entire population. This shows that ‘small’ effect sizes can in some contexts be large and impactful.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.13817
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13817Test
حقوق: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.8C46E945
قاعدة البيانات: BASE