基于学校的集群的集群内相关系数的模式,对改善学生社会情绪功能结果的干预措施的随机对照试验:对五项英国研究的二次数据分析
Kitty Parker1, Michael Nunns2, ZhiMin Xiao3
1NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South West Peninsula (PenARC), University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
BMC medical research methodology
|May 3, 2025
概括
在基于学校的试验中,社会情绪功能的集群内相关系数 (ICC) 因报告者而异. 教师报告的ICC通常更高,影响了集群随机试验的样本大小计算.
科学领域:
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 生物统计学 生物统计学
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
背景情况:
- 集群随机试验 (CRT) 越来越多地用于基于学校的干预措施.
- 准确的集群内相关系数 (ICC) 值对于CRT中的样本大小计算至关重要.
- 本研究检查了英国学校CRT中社会情绪功能结果的ICC.
研究的目的:
- 估计和描述ICC中社会情绪功能结果的模式.
- 为未来学校CRT的样本大小计算提供信息.
- 根据报告员类型和结果,识别ICC的变化.
主要方法:
- 利用了来自英国五所学校的CRT的数据.
- 采用混合效应线性回归模型来估计ICC和方差元件.
- 使用无效模型分析了基线数据,并根据试验组状态调整后续数据.
主要成果:
- 据估计,学校,年级组和教室各级有529个ICC.
- 在小学和中学之间的ICC中发现的差异很小.
- 与学生 (高达0.1) 和家长 (高达0.035) 报告的结果相比,对于教师报告的结果 (高达0.25) 观察到更高的ICC,特别是对于共同的经验和内化行为.
结论:
- 对于基于学校的CRT的样本大小计算,必须考虑较低级别集群 (例如教室) 的子样本.
- 由于为多个学生提供数据,教师报告的ICC通常更大.
- 报告者类型和结果特点显著影响ICC值,需要仔细考虑样本大小的确定.
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