Table 2.
Document characteristics
|
Document Characteristics |
Full Sample of Documents (N= 121) |
|
|---|---|---|
| n | % | |
|
Document Type |
|
|
| Journal article |
99 |
81.8 |
| Book chapter |
5 |
4.1 |
| Dissertation |
7 |
5.8 |
| Report |
10 |
8.3 |
|
Intervention Foci |
|
|
| Pregnancy |
21 |
17.4 |
| Parenting |
53 |
43.8 |
| Both |
47 |
38.8 |
|
Date of Publication (years) |
Range 1978-2008 |
Median 1999 |
|
Document Length (in pages) |
Range 1-250 |
Median 11.00 |
|
Study Design |
|
|
| Randomized/experimental |
14 |
11.5 |
| Quasi-experimental |
44 |
36.4 |
| Pre-post |
28 |
23.1 |
| Non-experimental |
35 |
29.5 |
|
Study Series Status |
|
|
| Single publication |
40 |
33.1 |
| In a series |
81 |
66.9 |
|
Study quality |
|
|
| Jadad |
Range 1-3 |
Mean 1.67 |
| Newcastle-Ottawa Scale | Range 0-6 | Mean 2.45 |