title: Developing a reporting guideline for social and psychological intervention trials.
abstract: Social and psychological interventions are often complex. Understanding randomised 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 paper, 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: CONSORT-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).
authors.affiliation: Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, Research Department of Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB, UK.
authors.forename: Evan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mayo-Wilson
authors.forename: Sean
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Grant
authors.forename: Sally
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hopewell
authors.forename: Geraldine
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Macdonald
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moher
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Montgomery
mesh_terms: D032921:Consensus; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D023381:Endpoint Determination / Q000592:standards; D017408:Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000592:standards*; D011643:Publishing / Q000592:standards*; D011786:Quality Control; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards*; D012962:Sociology, Medical / Q000592:standards*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
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