Developing a Reporting Guideline for Social and Psychological Intervention Trials

Sean Grant; Paul Montgomery; Sally Hopewell; Geraldine Macdonald; David Moher; Evan Mayo-Wilson

doi:10.1177/1049731513498118

Developing a Reporting Guideline for Social and Psychological Intervention Trials

Sean Grant^*
, Paul Montgomery
, Sally Hopewell
, Geraldine Macdonald
, David Moher
, Evan Mayo-Wilson

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Social and psychological interventions are often complex. Understanding randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of these complex interventions requires a detailed description of the interventions tested and the methods used to evaluate them; however, RCT reports often omit, or inadequately report, this information. Incomplete and inaccurate reporting hinders the optimal use of research, wastes resources, and fails to meet ethical obligations to research participants and consumers. In this article, we explain how reporting guidelines have improved the quality of reports in medicine and describe the ongoing development of a new reporting guideline for RCTs: Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials-SPI (an extension for social and psychological interventions). We invite readers to participate in the project by visiting our website, in order to help us reach the best-informed consensus on these guidelines (http://tinyurl.com/CONSORT-study).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	595-602
Number of pages	8
Journal	Research on Social Work Practice
Volume	23
Issue number	6
Early online date	01 Aug 2013
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731513498118
Publication status	Published - Oct 2013

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Keywords

randomized controlled trial
RCT
CONSORT-SPI
reporting guideline
reporting standards
RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED-TRIALS
PUBLIC-HEALTH INTERVENTIONS
BEHAVIOR-CHANGE INTERVENTIONS
OF-PEDIATRIC-PSYCHOLOGY
CONSORT STATEMENT
ALLOCATION CONCEALMENT
CLINICAL-TRIALS
EXTENSION
QUALITY
IMPLEMENTATION

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