title: The Single-Case Reporting Guideline In BEhavioural Interventions (SCRIBE) 2016 Statement.
abstract: 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 BEhavioural 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.
authors: The Kolling Institute of Medical Research , St Leonards, New South Wales , Australia , and The University of Sydney.
authors: Robyn L
authors: RL
authors: Tate
authors: Royal North Shore Hospital , St Leonards , New South Wales , Australia , and The University of Sydney.
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Perdices
authors: The Kolling Institute of Medical Research , St Leonards, New South Wales , Australia , and The University of Sydney.
authors: Ulrike
authors: U
authors: Rosenkoetter
authors: University of California , Merced.
authors: William
authors: W
authors: Shadish
authors: University of Alberta.
authors: Sunita
authors: S
authors: Vohra
authors: Boston University.
authors: David H
authors: DH
authors: Barlow
authors: University of Oregon.
authors: Robert
authors: R
authors: Horner
authors: Yale University.
authors: Alan
authors: A
authors: Kazdin
authors: University of Wisconsin - Madison.
authors: Thomas
authors: T
authors: Kratochwill
authors: University of New South Wales.
authors: Skye
authors: S
authors: McDonald
authors: Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario , Ottawa , Ontario , Canada.
authors: Margaret
authors: M
authors: Sampson
authors: Ottawa Hospital Research Institute , Ottawa , Ontario , Canada , and University of Ottawa.
authors: Larissa
authors: L
authors: Shamseer
authors: The University of Sydney.
authors: Leanne
authors: L
authors: Togher
authors: University of Oregon.
authors: Richard
authors: R
authors: Albin
authors: University of British Columbia.
authors: Catherine
authors: C
authors: Backman
authors: La Trobe University.
authors: Jacinta
authors: J
authors: Douglas
authors: University of Glasgow.
authors: Jonathan J
authors: JJ
authors: Evans
authors: University of Georgia.
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Gast
authors: University of Barcelona.
authors: Rumen
authors: R
authors: Manolov
authors: University of Queensland.
authors: Geoffrey
authors: G
authors: Mitchell
authors: Macquarie University.
authors: Lyndsey
authors: L
authors: Nickels
authors: University of Queensland.
authors: Jane
authors: J
authors: Nikles
authors: Griffith University.
authors: Tamara
authors: T
authors: Ownsworth
authors: La Trobe University.
authors: Miranda
authors: M
authors: Rose
authors: Brown University.
authors: Christopher H
authors: CH
authors: Schmid
authors: Oliver Zangwill Centre , Cambridgeshire , United Kingdom.
authors: Barbara
authors: B
authors: Wilson
keywords: methodology; publication standards; reporting guidelines; single-case design