PRM263 - THE USE OF PRISMA STATEMENT IMPROVES THE REPORTING QUALITY OF META-ANALYSES PUBLISHED IN THE FIELD OF PSYCHOLOGY

To assess the overall reporting quality of recent Meta-Analyses (MAs) in psychology through the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-analyses) statement. We searched for MAs indexed in the PsycINFO database in 2016 through a pre-specified search strategy (N=2159). In accordance with our study objective and statistical power analysis, we randomly selected 207 MAs, 100 with the explicit statement, in their methods...