¶ … Tobacco control and stress reduction Data interpretation is a critical component of the research process, one which is necessary to ensure that the data has program significance -- i.e., can provide useful guidelines for changes in policy or to add to the existing research -- and also to ensure that the data simply meets basic statistical criteria for validity. In the case of the smoking cessation program profiled in the text by McKenzie, Neiger, & Thackeray, R. (2013), there are several obvious problems with the data -- only a limited number of the pooled workplaces (67%) actually completed the survey, 251 in total. 198 of the profiled workplaces (79%) had fewer than 51 employees. This means that the data may be incomplete regarding the full extent that such programs have been implemented (or the lack of extent to which they have been implemented) and most of the programs have a relatively limited number of involved persons. According to Fitzpatrick (2004 et al., cited by McKenzie, Neiger & Thackeray 2013) one method of data analysis is "comparing assessed...
For example, 52% of organizations did not allow smoking within the buildings at all while 37% allowed it only within designated areas (10% had no such policies). There was also an overrepresentation of large businesses within the sample, further complicating the results. Thus, the data presented is problematic for a variety of potential uses -- in terms of evaluating the utility of such a program in discouraging tobacco use, the surveyed entities are extremely varied in terms of the specifics of the programs they are using. The sampling is relatively incomplete and skewed in favor of particular types of businesses at the expense of others. Variance in program types for an already small…
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