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Erin Dieguez 

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Re:Topic 8 DQ 2

Significance is noted to be the importance of something or possessing the important quality. The statistical significance of something means that it did not happen just by chance, but because it was true. “Significant, in terms of statistics, is defined as “probably caused by something other than mere chance.” Researchers proclaim a study finding to be “statistically significant” or not, depending on whether their research result is less than the a priori alpha level set before the study commenced.” (Thompson, 2017)

“ Clinical significance , or clinical importance : Is the difference between new and old therapy found in the study large enough for you to alter your practice? Because there is always a leap of faith in applying the results of a study to your patients (who, after all, were not in the study), perhaps a small improvement in the new therapy is not sufficient to cause you to alter your clinical approach. Note that you would almost certainly not alter your approach if the study results were not statistically significant (i.e. could well have been due to chance).” (Significance vs. Importance, n.d.)

This is such a hard concept for me to understand honestly. What does make sense to me is that statistics and statistical evidence are actual facts and what makes sense to me is that the significance is based on actual factors and not just a random result. The clinical significance is necessarily just by chance but you are taking a little more of a “leap of faith”, as they stated, in applying their results to the actual practice. They are not sure if this result is for sure the answer to treatments and if it will work on every single person  but there is a strong possibility based on research that this will work for most of the population.

 

References

Significance vs. Importance. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.med.uottawa.ca/sim/data/Statistical_significance_importance_e.htm

Thompson, C. (2017, April 11). What’s the Difference Between Statistical Significance and Clinical Significance? Retrieved from https://nursingeducationexpert.com/difference-statistical-significance-clinical-significance/