What is a meta-analysis?
A plain-language tour of how meta-analyses pool evidence, why they sit at the top of the evidence hierarchy, and how they can still mislead.
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RESEARCH LITERACY
Reading anxiety research
7 pages · Updated 2026-05-18
How to read studies, weigh evidence, and avoid common misreadings of mental-health research. These pages translate research methodology into plain language for non-clinicians.
Research literacy topics
Correlation vs causation
Why an association between two variables doesn't, on its own, support a causal claim, with anxiety-specific examples.
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Statistical vs clinical significance
Why a statistically significant finding can be clinically trivial, and the concepts that bridge the gap.
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Why mental health studies disagree
How differences in population, outcome measure, and follow-up window explain most apparent contradictions between studies on the same intervention.
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Why one study shouldn't change treatment
Reproducibility, publication bias, and the difference between population-level findings and individual care.
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How to read psychiatric study headlines
A short checklist for triaging news coverage of anxiety and depression research.
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Levels of evidence
A plain-language tour of the evidence hierarchy, from case reports to clinical practice guidelines.
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