Meanings of descriptive studies in English

Eligibility criteria: Eligible studies were observational or descriptive studies conducted in mainland China.

Evidence for such a claim is based principally upon descriptive studies.

Two critical appraisal tools were used to critically appraise descriptive studies and opinion publications.

The intervention research begins with descriptive studies and has subdivisions for primary and secondary symptoms.

Abstracts were then categorized as reporting treatment outcomes, health services research, descriptive studies or literature reviews.

Moreover, descriptive studies indicate that consumers may hold the belief that hookah smoking is safer than smoking cigarettes.

The selected literature included 27 interventional and 38 descriptive studies.

Qualitative and descriptive studies, and reviews that addressed pregnant women's perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes about personal cannabis use were included.

The review included theoretical and opinion pieces, case studies, descriptive studies, frameworks and systematic reviews describing processes, and conceptual models for assessing research impact.

Results: In total, 3777 articles were found, of which 27 studies were included: twelve intervention studies and fifteen descriptive studies.

Thirty five (35) studies (25 case reports, seven descriptive studies and three analytical studies) were included in the review.

The final 11 studies consisted of 1 randomised controlled trial, 4 comparative and 6 descriptive studies yielding 12 heterogeneous procedural assessment tools for analysis.