Statistical Reporting in Nursing Research: Addressing a Common Error in Reporting of p Values (p =.000).
Purpose: The confidence in a study will be reduced due to the incorrect representation of statistical results. However, it is unknown to what extent p values are incorrectly represented in published nursing journals. The study aims to evaluate the articles in 30 nursing journals in terms of the erro...
| Published in: | Journal of Nursing Scholarship Vol. 52; no. 6; pp. 688 - 696 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2020
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=147049875&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 147049875 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 15276546 6QP jtl: Journal of Nursing Scholarship issn: 15276546 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Nov2020 vid: 52 iid: 6 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 147049875 145905843 147049875 147049875 10.1111/jnu.12595 147049875 ppf: 688 ppct: 8 formats: tig: atl: Statistical Reporting in Nursing Research: Addressing a Common Error in Reporting of p Values (p =.000). aug: au: Wu, Yanni Zhou, Chunlan Wang, Run Ye, Xiaoling Yang, Lixiao Li, Chaixiu Hu, Mingyu Cong, Weilian affil: Senior Editor, Journal of Nursing (China), Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, PR China sug: subj: Research, Nursing Publishing Standards Statistics Standards P-Value Standards Human Error Bibliometrics Serial Publications Citation Analysis Manuscripts Data Analysis Software Fisher's Exact Test Edit and Review ab: Purpose: The confidence in a study will be reduced due to the incorrect representation of statistical results. However, it is unknown to what extent p values are incorrectly represented in published nursing journals. The study aims to evaluate the articles in 30 nursing journals in terms of the error in reporting of p values (p =.000). Design and Methods: This was a bibliometric analysis. All papers published in 10 leading nursing journals (between 2015 and 2019), the 10 bottom nursing journals (2019), and 10 selected key nursing journals (2019) indexed in the Science Citation Index Journal Citation Reports were reviewed to detect errors in reporting of p values (p =.000). Results: A total of 3,788 papers were reviewed. Notably, it was found that 93.3% (28/30) of the nursing journals contained incorrect representation of p values (p =.000). The reporting rate of these journals ranges from 0% to 57.1%, with an overall rate of 12.8% (486/3,788). In addition, the rate of incorrect representation of p values (p =.000) showed no statistically significant difference between different publication years (Χ2 = 4.976, p =.290). However, the rate of reporting was different between study types, journals, and regions (p =.007, p =.020, and p <.001, respectively). Conclusions: The incorrect representation of p values is common in nursing journals. Clinical Relevance: We recommend that both publishers and researchers be responsible for preventing statistical errors in manuscripts. Furthermore, various kinds of statistical training methods should be adopted to ensure that nurses and journal reviewers have enough statistical literacy. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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