Greetings,
I wish to conduct a meta-analysis for which the outcome is a continuous  
variable measured on the same individuals before and after an intervention.  
Hence, the comparison is not made between two groups, but within groups, at  
diffrent times.

Each study reports the mean outcome and SD before the intervention and the  
mean outcome and SD after the intervention. While p-values for paired  
t-test (or similar methods for paired data) are reported in the studies, no  
estimate of the variability of the individual differences are available.

Can metafor deal with this sort of meta-analysis? I know that I can  
technically run metafor on these data, assuming that the groups are  
independent but my inference is likely to be wrong. On the other hand, I  
have no idea of the correlation within individuals.

Thanks in advance,
MP

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