The Single-Case Reporting Guideline In BEhavioural Interventions (SCRIBE) 2016 Statement.
Reporting guidelines, such as the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) Statement, improve the reporting of research in the medical literature (Turner et al., 2012). Many such guidelines exist, and the CONSORT Extension to Nonpharmacological Trials (Boutron et al., 2008) provides suitable guidance for reporting between-groups intervention studies in the behavioral sciences. The CONSORT Extension for N-of-1 Trials (CENT 2015) was developed for multiple crossover trials with single individuals in the medical sciences (Shamseer et al., 2015; Vohra et al., 2015), but there is no reporting guideline in the CONSORT tradition for single-case research used in the behavioral sciences. We developed the Single-Case Reporting guideline In Behavioral interventions (SCRIBE) 2016 to meet this need. This Statement article describes the methodology of the development of the SCRIBE 2016, along with the outcome of 2 Delphi surveys and a consensus meeting of experts. We present the resulting 26-item SCRIBE 2016 checklist. The article complements the more detailed SCRIBE 2016 Explanation and Elaboration article (Tate et al., 2016) that provides a rationale for each of the items and examples of adequate reporting from the literature. Both these resources will assist authors to prepare reports of single-case research with clarity, completeness, accuracy, and transparency. They will also provide journal reviewers and editors with a practical checklist against which such reports may be critically evaluated.
Robyn L. Tate, Kolling Institute of Medical Research and University of Sydney; robyn.tate@sydney.edu.au.
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Michael Perdices, Royal North Shore Hospital and University of Sydney.
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Ulrike Rosenkoetter, Kolling Institute of Medical Research and University of Sydney.
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William Shadish, University of California, Merced.
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Sunita Vohra, University of Alberta.
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David H. Barlow, Boston University.
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Robert Horner, University of Oregon.
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Alan Kazdin, Yale University.
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Thomas Kratochwill, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Skye McDonald, University of New South Wales.
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Margaret Sampson, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario.
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Larissa Shamseer, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and University of Ottawa.
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Leanne Togher, University of Sydney.
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Richard Albin, University of Oregon.
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Catherine Backman, University of British Columbia.
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Jacinta Douglas, La Trobe University.
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Jonathan J. Evans, University of Glasgow.
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David Gast, University of Georgia.
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Rumen Manolov, University of Barcelona.
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Geoffrey Mitchell, University of Queensland.
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Lyndsey Nickels, Macquarie University.
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Jane Nikles, University of Queensland.
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Tamara Ownsworth, Griffith University.
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Miranda Rose, La Trobe University.
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Christopher H. Schmid, Brown University.
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Barbara Wilson, Oliver Zangwill Centre.
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