Use of Bland-Altman Analysis to Examine the Racial and Ethnic Representativeness of Study Populations in Community-Based Pediatric Health Research.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Children from marginalized racial and ethnic groups are underrepresented in health research. To improve external validity and routinize race and ethnicity reporting, a specific and standardized methodology for quantifying representativeness of participant populations is needed.

Objective

To develop a standardized method for quantifying the racial and ethnic representativeness of study samples.

Design, setting, and participants

In this cross-sectional study, data from 7 US community-based health studies (conducted between 2003 and 2017) were retrospectively pooled to assess the school-level representativeness of enrolled samples by race and ethnicity. The sampling frame for the study was constructed using the National Center of Education Statistics Common Co

SUBMITTER: Krobath DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10176118 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature