Nagarajan Vetrivel Babu, Bhide Shruti, Kanase Hemant R, Potey Anirudha Vyankatesh, Tadavi Firoz
Post Graduate Resident,Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Seth GS Medical College, KEM Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Associate Professor,Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Seth GS Medical College, KEM Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Corresponding Author.
J Assoc Physicians India. 2018 Dec;66(12):39-42.
Quality of reporting is very important in medical research. To ensure a uniform and detailed reporting of observational studies experts came out with a checklist of items, named 'Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology' (STROBE). The present study examines the adherence of observational studies published in selected Indian journals from 2011-2015 to STROBE Statement.
7 open access Indian journals, belonging to different specialities were selected. All the observational studies were assessed by 5 independent reviewers for the adherence to STROBE checklist as 'yes, partly and no'. The completeness of reporting was also assessed.
A total of 271 articles were examined. Only 10 items (Abstract, Background/rationale, Objectives, Study Setting, Data sources/ measurement, Quantitative variables, number of Participants at each stage, Characteristics of study participants, Key results) out of the 22 items and their subdivisions of STROBE were adhered to, in more than 70% of articles. Other 10 items (bias, subgroup analysis, addressing missing data, sensitivity analysis, reason for nonparticipation, flow diagram, missing data) had adherence in less than 30% of the articles. The completeness of reporting was 50.5%, 49.12% and 43.06% in cross sectional, cohort and case control study, respectively.
The overall reporting was suboptimal. The completeness of reporting did not differ in the three types of observational study designs.
在医学研究中，报告质量非常重要。为确保对观察性研究进行统一且详细的报告，专家们制定了一份项目清单，名为“加强流行病学观察性研究报告（STROBE）”。本研究考察了2011年至2015年在印度选定期刊上发表的观察性研究对STROBE声明的遵循情况。
选取了7种不同专业的印度开放获取期刊。所有观察性研究由5名独立评审员评估其对STROBE清单的遵循情况，分为“是、部分遵循和否”。同时也评估了报告的完整性。
共检查了271篇文章。STROBE的22个项目及其细分项目中，只有10个项目（摘要、背景/原理、目的、研究背景、数据来源/测量、定量变量、各阶段参与者数量、研究参与者特征、主要结果）在超过70%的文章中得到遵循。其他10个项目（偏倚、亚组分析、处理缺失数据、敏感性分析、未参与原因、流程图、缺失数据）在不到30%的文章中得到遵循。横断面研究、队列研究和病例对照研究的报告完整性分别为50.5%、49.12%和43.06%。
总体报告情况欠佳。三种观察性研究设计的报告完整性没有差异。
