Quantitative Meta-analysis.pdf

The American Psychological Association (APA) provides guidelines for reporting quantitative meta-analyses, including information to be included in manuscripts. This information includes:
- Title and title page: research question, type of research synthesis, and author note with funding sources, conflicts of interest, and registry information.
- Abstract: objectives, eligibility criteria, methods of synthesis, results, and conclusions.
- Introduction: problem statement, historical background, theoretical and practical issues, populations and settings, rationale for study design and outcome selection, and psychometric characteristics of outcome measures.
- Protocol: location of full protocol or statement that no protocol was used.
- Method: inclusion and exclusion criteria, information sources, study selection process, data collection methods, methods for assessing risk to internal validity, and summary measures.
- Results: number of included studies and participants, primary outcome results, moderator analyses, effect sizes, and confidence intervals.
- Conclusions: strengths and limitations of evidence, inconsistency, imprecision, risk of bias, and reporting biases.