Consideration of confounding was suboptimal in the reporting of observational studies in psychiatry: a meta-epidemiological study

Objectives When reporting observational studies, authors should explicitly discuss the potential for confounding and other biases, but it is unclear to what extent this is carried out within the psychiatric field. Study Design and Setting We reviewed a random sample of 120 articles in the five psychiatric specialty journals with the highest 5-year impact factor in 2015–2018. We evaluated how confounding and bias was considered in the reporting...