Badu Eric, Okyere Paul, Bell Diane, Gyamfi Naomi, Opoku Maxwell Peprah, Agyei-Baffour Peter, Edusei Anthony Kwaku
1Department of Health Promotion and Disability Studies, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
2Business Faculty, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa.
Res Integr Peer Rev. 2019 Jan 16;4:1. doi: 10.1186/s41073-018-0061-3. eCollection 2019.
The abstracts of a conference are important for informing the participants about the results that are communicated. However, there is poor reporting in conference abstracts in disability research. This paper aims to assess the reporting in the abstracts presented at the 5th African Network for Evidence-to-Action in Disability (AfriNEAD) Conference in Ghana.
This descriptive study extracted information from the abstracts presented at the 5th AfriNEAD Conference. Three reviewers independently reviewed all the included abstracts using a predefined data extraction form. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the extracted information, using Stata version 15.
Of the 76 abstracts assessed, 54 met the inclusion criteria, while 22 were excluded. More than half of all the included abstracts (32/54; 59.26%) were studies conducted in Ghana. Some of the included abstracts did not report on the study design (37/54; 68.5%), the type of analysis performed (30/54; 55.56%), the sampling (27/54; 50%), and the sample size (18/54; 33.33%). Almost all the included abstracts did not report the age distribution and the gender of the participants.
The study findings confirm that there is poor reporting of methods and findings in conference abstracts. Future conference organizers should critically examine abstracts to ensure that these issues are adequately addressed, so that findings are effectively communicated to participants.
会议摘要对于让参会者了解所交流的研究结果很重要。然而，残疾研究领域的会议摘要报告质量欠佳。本文旨在评估在加纳举行的第五届非洲残疾循证行动网络（AfriNEAD）会议上所展示摘要的报告情况。
这项描述性研究从第五届AfriNEAD会议展示的摘要中提取信息。三位评审员使用预定义的数据提取表独立评审所有纳入的摘要。使用Stata 15版本进行描述性统计分析提取的信息。
在评估的76篇摘要中，54篇符合纳入标准，22篇被排除。所有纳入摘要中超过一半（32/54；59.26%）是在加纳开展的研究。一些纳入摘要未报告研究设计（37/54；68.5%）、所进行的分析类型（30/54；55.56%）、抽样情况（27/54；50%）以及样本量（18/54；33.33%）。几乎所有纳入摘要都未报告参与者的年龄分布和性别。
研究结果证实会议摘要在方法和结果报告方面存在不足。未来会议组织者应严格审查摘要，以确保这些问题得到充分解决，从而将研究结果有效地传达给参会者。
