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Interventions for improving the design and conduct of scientific research: A scoping review protocol
Andrew Mott1, Catriona McDaid1, Catherine Hewitt1
1York Trials Unit, University of York, UK, York, North Yorkshire, YO10 5DD, UK.
Background:
Research waste is prevalent in many scientific fields despite a number of initiatives to improve research practices. Interventions to improve practice are often implemented without evaluating their effectiveness. It is therefore important to identify the interventions that have been evaluated, assess how they have been evaluated and to identify areas where further research is required.
Objectives:
A scoping review will be undertaken to assess what interventions, aimed at researchers or research teams, to improve research design and conduct have been evaluated. This review will also consider when in the research pathway these interventions are implemented; what aspects of research design or conduct are being targeted; and who is implementing these interventions.
Methods:
Interventions which aim to improve the design or conduct of research will be eligible for inclusion. The review will not include interventions aimed at hypothetical research projects or interventions implemented without evaluation.The following sources will be searched: MEDLINE, EMBASE, ERIC, HMIC, EconLit, Social Policy and Practice, ProQuest theses, and MetaArXiv. Hand searching of references and citations of included studies will also be undertaken. Searches will be limited to articles published in the last 10 years.Data extraction will be completed using a data extraction template developed for this review. Results will be tabulated by type of intervention, research stage, and outcome. A narrative review will also be provided addressing each of the objectives.
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