Session: PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP I: META-ANALYTIC METHODS FOR EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF PREVENTION PROGRAMS (Society for Prevention Research 24th Annual Meeting)

The purpose of this workshop is to provide attendees with the skills and knowledge needed to conduct a meta-analysis to examine the effects of prevention and intervention programs. The goals of the workshop are to provide attendees with training on the technical issues and statistical analyses distinctive to meta-analysis, providing hands-on experience using meta-analytic statistical techniques with R/Stata. By the end of the workshop, attendees should have the tools and skills needed to (a) be informed consumers of meta-analyses, (b) extract effect sizes from primary studies and create meta-analytic databases, (c) quantitatively synthesize effect sizes across studies, and (d) explore variability in effect sizes across studies.