Hi all,
I am working on a systematic review on accommodation
settings and one of the outcome of interest is the CIQ scores of three groups of
patients. It appears that the CIQ scores are skewed based on the non-parametric
methods used in the analysis of included papers.
I have a couple of issues here.
1. 1. Can the CIQ scores be
considered as continuous data? From what I understand, it looks more like categorical.
As an example, a zero is given for a person who does not go shopping, one is
given if that person goes shopping with another person and two is given if that
person can go shopping alone. Obviously, a person who could go shopping on his
own may be more integrated to the community compared to a person who does not do
that at all, but does that mean he is twice as good (at least for shopping) compared
to a person who does shopping with another person?
2. 2. Is anyone aware of a systematic
review that combined CIQ scores from different papers? If so, would you mind
letting me know about it? It would be really helpful.
Thank you very much for your input, in advance.
Kind regards,
Loyal Pattuwage