Cargando…
Quality and Reporting of Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials Evaluating Occupational Therapy Interventions: A Systematic Review
Growing use of cluster randomized control trials (RCTs) in health care research requires careful attention to study designs, with implications for the development of an evidence base for practice. The objective of this study is to investigate the characteristics, quality, and reporting of cluster RC...
Autores principales: | , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
SAGE Publications
2015
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4766971/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27504689 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1539449215618625 |
_version_ | 1782417763427418112 |
---|---|
author | Tokolahi, Ema Hocking, Clare Kersten, Paula Vandal, Alain C. |
author_facet | Tokolahi, Ema Hocking, Clare Kersten, Paula Vandal, Alain C. |
author_sort | Tokolahi, Ema |
collection | PubMed |
description | Growing use of cluster randomized control trials (RCTs) in health care research requires careful attention to study designs, with implications for the development of an evidence base for practice. The objective of this study is to investigate the characteristics, quality, and reporting of cluster RCTs evaluating occupational therapy interventions to inform future research design. An extensive search of cluster RCTs evaluating occupational therapy was conducted in several databases. Fourteen studies met our inclusion criteria; four were protocols. Eleven (79%) justified the use of a cluster RCT and accounted for clustering in the sample size and analysis. All full studies reported the number of clusters randomized, and five reported intercluster correlation coefficients (50%): Protocols had higher compliance. Risk of bias was most evident in unblinding of participants. Statistician involvement was associated with improved trial quality and reporting. Quality of cluster RCTs of occupational therapy interventions is comparable with those from other areas of health research and needs improvement. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-4766971 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2015 |
publisher | SAGE Publications |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-47669712016-04-01 Quality and Reporting of Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials Evaluating Occupational Therapy Interventions: A Systematic Review Tokolahi, Ema Hocking, Clare Kersten, Paula Vandal, Alain C. OTJR (Thorofare N J) Articles Growing use of cluster randomized control trials (RCTs) in health care research requires careful attention to study designs, with implications for the development of an evidence base for practice. The objective of this study is to investigate the characteristics, quality, and reporting of cluster RCTs evaluating occupational therapy interventions to inform future research design. An extensive search of cluster RCTs evaluating occupational therapy was conducted in several databases. Fourteen studies met our inclusion criteria; four were protocols. Eleven (79%) justified the use of a cluster RCT and accounted for clustering in the sample size and analysis. All full studies reported the number of clusters randomized, and five reported intercluster correlation coefficients (50%): Protocols had higher compliance. Risk of bias was most evident in unblinding of participants. Statistician involvement was associated with improved trial quality and reporting. Quality of cluster RCTs of occupational therapy interventions is comparable with those from other areas of health research and needs improvement. SAGE Publications 2015-12-23 2016-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4766971/ /pubmed/27504689 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1539449215618625 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Articles Tokolahi, Ema Hocking, Clare Kersten, Paula Vandal, Alain C. Quality and Reporting of Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials Evaluating Occupational Therapy Interventions: A Systematic Review |
title | Quality and Reporting of Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials Evaluating Occupational Therapy Interventions: A Systematic Review |
title_full | Quality and Reporting of Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials Evaluating Occupational Therapy Interventions: A Systematic Review |
title_fullStr | Quality and Reporting of Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials Evaluating Occupational Therapy Interventions: A Systematic Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Quality and Reporting of Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials Evaluating Occupational Therapy Interventions: A Systematic Review |
title_short | Quality and Reporting of Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials Evaluating Occupational Therapy Interventions: A Systematic Review |
title_sort | quality and reporting of cluster randomized controlled trials evaluating occupational therapy interventions: a systematic review |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4766971/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27504689 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1539449215618625 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT tokolahiema qualityandreportingofclusterrandomizedcontrolledtrialsevaluatingoccupationaltherapyinterventionsasystematicreview AT hockingclare qualityandreportingofclusterrandomizedcontrolledtrialsevaluatingoccupationaltherapyinterventionsasystematicreview AT kerstenpaula qualityandreportingofclusterrandomizedcontrolledtrialsevaluatingoccupationaltherapyinterventionsasystematicreview AT vandalalainc qualityandreportingofclusterrandomizedcontrolledtrialsevaluatingoccupationaltherapyinterventionsasystematicreview |