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Developing a reporting guideline for social and psychological intervention trials

Evan Mayo-Wilson1, Paul Montgomery, Sally Hopewell

  • 1Evan Mayo-Wilson, DPhhil, MSc, Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, Research Department of Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK; Paul Montgomery, DPhil, Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Sally Hopewell, DPhil, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Geraldine Macdonald, MSc, Institute of Child Care Research, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast. UK; David Moher, PhD, MSc, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Centre for Practice-Changing Research (CPCR), The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada; Sean Grant, MSc, Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

The British Journal of Psychiatry : the Journal of Mental Science
|September 14, 2013
PubMed
Summary

Reporting guidelines improve randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for complex social and psychological interventions. CONSORT-SPI is a new guideline to enhance reporting quality and research utility.

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