title: Developing a Reporting Guideline for Social and Psychological Intervention Trials.
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).
authors: Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
authors: Sean
authors: S
authors: Grant
authors: Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
authors: Paul
authors: P
authors: Montgomery
authors: Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
authors: Sally
authors: S
authors: Hopewell
authors: Institute of Child Care Research, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK.
authors: Geraldine
authors: G
authors: Macdonald
authors: Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Centre for Practice-Changing Research (CPCR), The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Moher
authors: Research Department of Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology, Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, University College London, London, UK.
authors: Evan
authors: E
authors: Mayo-Wilson
keywords: CONSORT-SPI; RCT; randomized controlled trial; reporting guideline; reporting standards