ArticlePilot and feasibility studies2020
Guidance for conducting feasibility and pilot studies for implementation trials.
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Who cites it
262 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Methods used to design audit and feedback interventions to change clinical practice: a scoping review.Frontiers in health services · 2026Pooled it
- Implementation strategies to increase tobacco treatment in mental health settings: a systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Health behaviour interventions to improve mental health outcomes for students in the university setting: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Pooled it
- Development and evaluation of a de-escalation training intervention in adult acute and forensic units: the EDITION systematic review and feasibility trial.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2024Pooled it
- Evaluability and feasibility of an intervention combining gaming and social activities to improve mental wellbeing and health behaviour in adolescents facing social challenges.BMC pediatrics · 2026Trial
- A nurse navigator program for the management of hepatitis C virus in patients with severe mental disorder. A feasibility trial.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
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- Evaluating the Sustaining Play, Sustaining Health programme in Australian early childhood education and care services: a pilot randomized controlled trial.Health promotion international · 2025Trial
- Initial outcomes from the Confident Moves online intervention to promote physical activity in adults with obesity: a longitudinal feasibility and acceptability pilot trial.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- Effect of prophylactic fibrinogen concentrate in scoliosis surgery (EFISS): a randomised pilot trial.BMJ open · 2025Trial
- Mechanisms of change in a randomized control pilot study of partner-involved financial incentive treatments for dual-smoking couples.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025Trial
- Feasibility of a web video-based positive word stimulation program for older patients with cardiac disease and subthreshold depression admitted to an acute care ward: a pilot randomized controlled trial.European geriatric medicine · 2025Trial
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Eczema Management Program for Children With Eczema: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2025Trial
- Randomized Feasibility Pilot of an Executive Functioning Intervention Adapted for Children's Mental Health Settings.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Trial
- The effect of healthier menu item price reductions in the out-of-home food sector on energy purchased and consumed: a restaurant-based pilot experiment.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- An App-Based WHO Mental Health Guide for Depression Detection: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- Impact of a multi-component implementation strategy to increase outdoor free play opportunities in early childhood education and care (ECEC) services: the get outside get active (GOGA) randomised controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Trial
- Randomised feasibility study of an intestinal adsorbent in acute diarrhoea in The Gambia.BMJ paediatrics open · 2025Trial
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Abstract
backgroundImplementation trials aim to test the effects of implementation strategies on the adoption, integration or uptake of an evidence-based intervention within organisations or settings. Feasibility and pilot studies can assist with building and testing effective implementation strategies by helping to address uncertainties around design and methods, assessing potential implementation strategy effects and identifying potential causal mechanisms. This paper aims to provide broad guidance for the conduct of feasibility and pilot studies for implementation trials.
methodsWe convened a group with a mutual interest in the use of feasibility and pilot trials in implementation science including implementation and behavioural science experts and public health researchers. We conducted a literature review to identify existing recommendations for feasibility and pilot studies, as well as publications describing formative processes for implementation trials. In the absence of previous explicit guidance for the conduct of feasibility or pilot implementation trials specifically, we used the effectiveness-implementation hybrid trial design typology proposed by Curran and colleagues as a framework for conceptualising the application of feasibility and pilot testing of implementation interventions. We discuss and offer guidance regarding the aims, methods, design, measures, progression criteria and reporting for implementation feasibility and pilot studies.
conclusionsThis paper provides a resource for those undertaking preliminary work to enrich and inform larger scale implementation trials.
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