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Methodological Study in Environmental Health and Public Health

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2023) | Viewed by 6666

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Masahiro Banno

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1. Department of Psychiatry, Seichiryo Hospital, Nagoya 466-0064, Japan
2. Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Nagoya 466-8560, Japan
3. Systematic Review Workshop Peer Support Group (SRWS-PSG), Osaka 541-0043, Japan
Interests: clinical epidemiology; psychiatry
Dr. Yasushi Tsujimoto

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1. Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine and Public Health, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
2. Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, Kyoritsu Hospital, Kawanishi, Japan
3. Systematic Review Workshop Peer Support Group (SRWS-PSG), Osaka, Japan
Interests: clinical epidemiology; nephrology
Dr. Yuki Kataoka

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1. Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine and Public Health, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
2. Hospital Care Research Unit, Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki General Medical Center, Amagasaki, Japan
3. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki General Medical Center, Amagasaki, Japan
4. Systematic Review Workshop Peer Support Group (SRWS-PSG), Osaka, Japan
Interests: prediction model; medical education; clinical epidemiology

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Methodological studies (also known as methodological review, methodological survey, meta-research, research on research, meta-epidemiological study, and so on) are recently becoming established as a research field, and the number of publications has increased (Mbuagbaw L, Lawson DO, Puljak L, et al. “A Tutorial on Methodological Studies: The What, When, How and Why. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2020 Sep 7;20(1):226. doi: 10.1186/s12874-020-01107-7.). The proposed aim of the field is to investigate methods in primary or secondary research or records related to research (for example, records in clinical trials registries), which van help researchers to improve the quality of the research method, reporting, and interpretation.

Recently, methodological studies have accumulated, assessing the reporting quality of systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials in COVID-19 and investigating the characteristics of publication in preprint platforms. However, the methodological issue on specific fields such as environmental health or digital health which are the scope of IJERPH has not been well studied.

In this Special Issue, we seek recent progress in the research fields of methodological studies in environmental health and public health. We will accept articles in the nineteen major sections of IJERPH. We would like to invite contributions that report on the design, conduct, analysis or reporting in primary or secondary research or records related to research. Papers on the concept, definition, and reporting quality of methodological studies with quantitative data are also welcome.

Dr. Masahiro Banno
Dr. Yasushi Tsujimoto
Dr. Yuki Kataoka
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • methodological study
  • methodological review
  • methodological survey
  • meta-research
  • research on research
  • meta-epidemiological study

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Inappropriate Evaluation of Effect Modifications Based on Categorical Outcomes: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials
by Akihiro Shiroshita, Norio Yamamoto, Natsumi Saka, Motohiro Okumura, Hiroshi Shiba and Yuki Kataoka
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(22), 15262; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph192215262 - 18 Nov 2022
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Our meta-epidemiological study aimed to describe the prevalence of reporting effect modification only on relative scale outcomes and inappropriate interpretations of the coefficient of interaction terms in nonlinear models on categorical outcomes. Our study targeted articles published in the top 10 high-impact-factor journals [...] Read more.
Our meta-epidemiological study aimed to describe the prevalence of reporting effect modification only on relative scale outcomes and inappropriate interpretations of the coefficient of interaction terms in nonlinear models on categorical outcomes. Our study targeted articles published in the top 10 high-impact-factor journals between 1 January and 31 December 2021. We included two-arm, parallel-group, interventional superiority randomized controlled trials to evaluate the effects of modifications on categorical outcomes. The primary outcomes were the prevalence of reporting effect modifications only on relative scale outcomes and that of inappropriately interpreting the coefficient of interaction terms in nonlinear models on categorical outcomes. We included 52 articles, of which 41 (79%) used nonlinear regression to evaluate effect modifications. At least 45/52 articles (87%) reported effect modifications based only on relative scale outcomes, and at least 39/41 (95%) articles inappropriately interpreted the coefficient of interaction terms merely as indices of effect modifications. The quality of the evaluations of effect modifications in nonlinear models on categorical outcomes was relatively low, even in randomized controlled trials published in medical journals with high impact factors. Researchers should report effect modifications of both absolute and relative scale outcomes and avoid interpreting the coefficient of interaction terms in nonlinear regression analyses. Full article
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Use of the Hospital Survey of Patient Safety Culture in Norwegian Hospitals: A Systematic Review
by Espen Olsen and Ann-Chatrin Linqvist Leonardsen
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(12), 6518; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph18126518 - 17 Jun 2021
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This review aims to provide an overview of empirical studies using the HSOPSC in Norway and to develop recommendations for further research on patient safety culture. Oria, an online catalogue of scientific databases, was searched for patient safety culture in February 2021. In [...] Read more.
This review aims to provide an overview of empirical studies using the HSOPSC in Norway and to develop recommendations for further research on patient safety culture. Oria, an online catalogue of scientific databases, was searched for patient safety culture in February 2021. In addition, three articles were identified via Google Scholar searches. Out of 113 retrieved articles, a total of 20 articles were included in our review. These were divided into three categories: seven perception studies, six intervention studies, and seven reliability and validation studies. The first study conducted in Norway indicated a need to improve patient safety culture. Only one intervention study was able to substantially improve patient safety culture. The validity of HSOPSC is supported in most studies. However, one study indicated poor quality in relation to the testing of criteria related to validity. This review is limited to Norwegian healthcare but has several relevant implications across the research field, namely that intervention studies should (1) validate dimensions more carefully, (2) avoid pitfalls related to both factor analysis methods and criteria validity testing, (3) consider integrating structural models into multilevel improvement programs, and (4) benefit from applying different, new versions of HSOPSC developed in Norway. Full article
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