ABSTRACT

Ballester et al.’s (2021) Ballester, L., Amer, J., Sánchez-Prieto, L., & Valero De Vicente, M. (2021). Universal family drug prevention programs. A systematic review. Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 18(2), 192–213. https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2020.1822976[Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar] Ballester and colleagues' review of family-based drug prevention programs has at least two fundamental methodological problems that bring its results, and the conclusions drawn from these, into question. The first problem concerns the use of brief narrative summaries of the results from each paper that do not always accurately describe the results reported. The second problem concerns the failure to adequately describe the assessment of various forms of bias present in each of the papers reviewed. These problems are illustrated by examining the way in which Ballester et al. assessed potential outcome reporting bias in the seven papers from evaluations of the Strengthening Families Program 10–14 (SFP 10–14) included in their review and the manner in which they selectively highlight positive results from these papers in their narrative summaries while ignoring results that support the null hypothesis of no effect.

摘要

Ballester 等人 (2021) Ballester, L.、Amer, J.、Sánchez-Prieto, L.和Valero De Vicente, M.（2021 年）。普遍的家庭毒品预防计划。系统评价。循证社会工作，18（2），192 - 213。https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2020.1822976 [Taylor & Francis Online]  , [Google Scholar]Ballester 及其同事对以家庭为基础的药物预防计划的审查至少有两个基本的方法学问题，使其结果和由此得出的结论受到质疑。第一个问题涉及对每篇论文结果的简短叙述性摘要的使用，这些摘要并不总是准确描述报告的结果。第二个问题涉及未能充分描述对所审查的每篇论文中存在的各种形式的偏见的评估。通过检查 Ballester 等人的方式来说明这些问题。