Pre-conference Workshops > Workshop #5
Basics to understand and perform a meta-analysis for RCTs
Date and time: Wednesday May 27th, morning 10-13 a.m
The current workshop aims at providing the basic steps to understand and perform a meta-analysis for randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
In particular, the workshop will provide the Congress delegates with the essential first step to become familiar with the essential theoretical concepts of a meta-analysis. This involves the description of what a meta-analysis is dealing with and the presentation of prospective measures and outcomes in relationship to the meta-analysist’s interest in practice and research. Congress delegates will also become familiar with the essential steps towards the effective taxonomy of the literature findings before relevant data input is finalized towards a meta-analysis. This taxonomy includes data coding upon the literature shortcomings and flaws and the research question including its dendrites the researcher is focused on. Data coding will enable the meta-analysist to test for the overall effect and involved inflation and to perform various subgroups analyses; in this vein, the researcher is able to crystallize key issues in the field of interest. In addition, Congress delegates will become familiar with the risk of bias analysis, which is a fundamental aspect of a meta-analysis because it clarifies the methodological qualities of the reviewed RCTs and relevant extracted data. Further, the workshop will present the initial steps on how data input and data handling are operated into meta-analysis software. To this extent, the essential operational steps towards a basic meta-analysis of inserted data will be presented to record the effect size and associated variance indices and to depict relevant forest plots. In line, statistical tests with funnel plots and other plots and infographics will be presented to explain key aspects involved in the estimation and interpretation of a meta-analytic finding.
Who Is This Workshop For?
Designed for professionals working in and around sport, including:
- Sport psychologists
- Performance and Mental Skills Consultants
- Coach educators and developers
- Sport coaches
- PE teachers and practitioners working in performance and development contexts
About the Workshop Leader
Dr Morres is an Exercise Psychologist, certified in Behavioral Medicine by the National Health Institute of Behavioral Medicine in the USA. His work has received awards by scientific Associations of Mental Health and National Institutes of Health Research. International peer-reviewed scientific journals have also recognised his work. Dr Morres teaching centers around sport/exercise psychology, and he is the leader of the module "clinical exercise psychology" in the European Master of "Sport and Exercise Psychology", University of Thessaly. His research activities involve pragmatic trials and systematic reviews and meta-analyses with more than 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals. Dr Morres' clinical practice in National Health Systems has focused on the implementation of exercise on prescription for mental health disorders, whereas his personal and clinical development includes 400 psychoanalytic sessions.
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