Clinical Research Oriented Workshop (CROW) Meeting: May 5, 2021

 

Present:   Levi Bonnell, Justine Dee, Nancy Gell, Emily Houston, Ben Littenberg, Charlie MacLean, Liliane Savard, Connie van Eeghen, Mariana Wingood (9)

 1.                   Warm Up: Covid vaccinations internationally are slowly picking up… but not in time for travel plans

2.                   Justine Dee’s poster for IASP: Was scooped on her dissemination plan; decided to proceed with poster as she had additional information related to the type of abuse involved

a.       Format

                                                   i.      Bullet points!

                                                 ii.      Reduce size of Odds Ratio tables

                                               iii.      OK to change the title on the poster, as long as it is not part of the way-finding process for viewers

                                               iv.      QR Code to Justine’s webpage

                                                 v.      Middle section: make decimal points consistent, in text, P values, OR tables, and on RR graph

                                               vi.      Use “adjusted” and “non adjusted” rather than “multi-variate” and “univariate”

b.       Analyses

                                                   i.      Odds ration or Relative Risk – not both

1.       Converting OR based on multi-variate analysis: identify the non-exposed prevalence (baseline prevalence in non-abused population: 8%)

2.       Use the Odds Ration to Risk Ratio Converter on the Internet

3.       https://clincalc.com/Stats/ConvertOR.aspx

c.       Message

                                                   i.      Key point: how pain is related to abuse or overall health impact

1.       Goal: make connections, gain new contacts, and learn new points

2.       The small interest group on torture survivors are looking for clinicians

3.       Focus the conclusion on the clinical relevance

                                                 ii.      How useful is the wide variability of abuse experience in the Background?

                                               iii.      There is a mix of groups in the poster:

1.       Background: refugees

2.       Methods and Results: immigrants

                                               iv.      Identify how pain is assessed?  How is abuse assessed?

1.       Instrument was burdensome (long and complex); may have affected reporting

2.       Does not identify rape as a kind of harm; may be under-reported

                                                 v.      Findings: express the populations more simply: immigrant population, abuse population

                                               vi.      Conclusion: use to identify the opportunity for clinical research, making connections to IASP

1.       There are data that show the need for trusting relationship and time to develop them

d.       This is interesting and relevant – keep going!

                                                   i.      Does not include/acknowledge asylees, those who do not have time to become refugees

3.                   Next week:  TBA