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ArticleResearch on social work practice2013

Developing a Reporting Guideline for Social and Psychological Intervention Trials.

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

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Article in Research on social work practice, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Guideline
  4. Article
  5. Common Methodological Problems in Randomized Controlled Trials of Preventive Interventions.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2021
    Review
  6. A manifesto for reproducible science.Nature human behaviour · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Sean GrantCentre for Evidence-Based Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Paul MontgomeryCentre for Evidence-Based Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Sally HopewellCentre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Geraldine MacdonaldInstitute of Child Care Research, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK.
David MoherClinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Centre for Practice-Changing Research (CPCR), The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Evan Mayo-WilsonResearch Department of Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology, Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, University College London, London, UK.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/J004871/1
6 · The paper itself

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).

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CONSORT-SPIrandomized controlled trialRCTreporting guidelinereporting standards

Identifiers

PMID25076832
PMCPMC4108299

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