Results - Research Paper Example

In one of the studies, two (2) groups were on it. Six Minutes Walk Test was used for four hundred three (403) patients under the Pre and Post Respiratory Rehabilitation Programs in the Gold Coast Area in Australia.

The results gathered from these studies reflected whether the 6MWT is sensitive enough to the respiratory rehabilitation programs in the Gold Coast Area in Australia. To do this, meta-analysis and subgroup analysis were done on the data collected.

Main Effect Size for Eight (8) Groups of Seven (7) Studies

Table 1. Standard Difference in Means of Main Effect Size

Effect size and 95% confidence interval

Test of null

(2-Tail)

Heterogeneity

Model

No. Studies

Point est.

Std. error

Var.

Lower limit

Upper limit

Z-value

P-value

Q-value

df (Q)

P-value

I-squared

Tau Squared

Std. error

Var.

Tau Squared

Fixed

8

0.54

0.03

0.00

0.49

0.6

19.29

0

15.61

7

0.029

55.165

0.0082

0.008

0.000

0.090

Random Effects

8

0.54

0.04

0.00

0.45

0.63

12.11

0

Note: All studies are included here even the one that they did not provide the distance value for pre and post-rehabilitation programs-

Before the exclusion of one study which did not provide the exact distance for pre and post-rehabilitation programs, the above were the results of the study. The measure of heterogeneity (Q) was 15.6127 with df = 7 and p = 0.0289. The measure of the between-study variation, Tau-squared, was found to be 0.0082. On the other hand, I-squared was 55.165.