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Maximising the impact of qualitative research in feasibility studies for randomised controlled trials: guidance for researchers

Feasibility studies are increasingly undertaken in preparation for randomised controlled trials in order to explore uncertainties and enable trialists to optimise the intervention or the conduct of the trial. Qualitative research can be used to examine and address key uncertainties prior to a full t...

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Autores principales: O’Cathain, Alicia, Hoddinott, Pat, Lewin, Simon, Thomas, Kate J., Young, Bridget, Adamson, Joy, Jansen, Yvonne JFM., Mills, Nicola, Moore, Graham, Donovan, Jenny L.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5154038/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27965810
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-015-0026-y
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author O’Cathain, Alicia
Hoddinott, Pat
Lewin, Simon
Thomas, Kate J.
Young, Bridget
Adamson, Joy
Jansen, Yvonne JFM.
Mills, Nicola
Moore, Graham
Donovan, Jenny L.
author_facet O’Cathain, Alicia
Hoddinott, Pat
Lewin, Simon
Thomas, Kate J.
Young, Bridget
Adamson, Joy
Jansen, Yvonne JFM.
Mills, Nicola
Moore, Graham
Donovan, Jenny L.
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description Feasibility studies are increasingly undertaken in preparation for randomised controlled trials in order to explore uncertainties and enable trialists to optimise the intervention or the conduct of the trial. Qualitative research can be used to examine and address key uncertainties prior to a full trial. We present guidance that researchers, research funders and reviewers may wish to consider when assessing or undertaking qualitative research within feasibility studies for randomised controlled trials. The guidance consists of 16 items within five domains: research questions, data collection, analysis, teamwork and reporting. Appropriate and well conducted qualitative research can make an important contribution to feasibility studies for randomised controlled trials. This guidance may help researchers to consider the full range of contributions that qualitative research can make in relation to their particular trial. The guidance may also help researchers and others to reflect on the utility of such qualitative research in practice, so that trial teams can decide when and how best to use these approaches in future studies.
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spelling pubmed-51540382016-12-13 Maximising the impact of qualitative research in feasibility studies for randomised controlled trials: guidance for researchers O’Cathain, Alicia Hoddinott, Pat Lewin, Simon Thomas, Kate J. Young, Bridget Adamson, Joy Jansen, Yvonne JFM. Mills, Nicola Moore, Graham Donovan, Jenny L. Pilot Feasibility Stud Review Feasibility studies are increasingly undertaken in preparation for randomised controlled trials in order to explore uncertainties and enable trialists to optimise the intervention or the conduct of the trial. Qualitative research can be used to examine and address key uncertainties prior to a full trial. We present guidance that researchers, research funders and reviewers may wish to consider when assessing or undertaking qualitative research within feasibility studies for randomised controlled trials. The guidance consists of 16 items within five domains: research questions, data collection, analysis, teamwork and reporting. Appropriate and well conducted qualitative research can make an important contribution to feasibility studies for randomised controlled trials. This guidance may help researchers to consider the full range of contributions that qualitative research can make in relation to their particular trial. The guidance may also help researchers and others to reflect on the utility of such qualitative research in practice, so that trial teams can decide when and how best to use these approaches in future studies. BioMed Central 2015-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5154038/ /pubmed/27965810 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-015-0026-y Text en © O’Cathain et al. 2015 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Hoddinott, Pat
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Adamson, Joy
Jansen, Yvonne JFM.
Mills, Nicola
Moore, Graham
Donovan, Jenny L.
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