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A typology of useful evidence: approaches to increase the practical value of intervention research
BACKGROUND: Too often, studies of evidence-based interventions (EBIs) in preventive, community, and health care are not sufficiently useful to end users (typically practitioners, patients, policymakers, or other researchers). The ways in which intervention studies are conventionally conducted and re...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7254642/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32460833 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-00992-2 |
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description | BACKGROUND: Too often, studies of evidence-based interventions (EBIs) in preventive, community, and health care are not sufficiently useful to end users (typically practitioners, patients, policymakers, or other researchers). The ways in which intervention studies are conventionally conducted and reported mean that there is often a shortage of information when an EBI is used in practice. The paper aims to invite the research community to consider ways to optimize not only the trustworthiness but also the research’s usefulness in intervention studies. This is done by proposing a typology that provides some approaches to useful EBIs for intervention researchers. The approaches originate from different research fields and are summarized to highlight their potential benefits from a usefulness perspective. MAIN MESSAGE: The typology consists of research approaches to increase the usefulness of EBIs by improving the reporting of four features in intervention studies: (1) the interventions themselves, including core components and appropriate adaptations; (2) strategies to support–high-quality implementation of the interventions; (3) generalizations about the evidence in a variety of contexts; and (4) outcomes based on end users’ preferences and knowledge. The research approaches fall into three levels: Description, Analysis, and Design. The first level, Description, outlines what types of information about the intervention and its implementation, context, and outcomes can be helpful for end users. Research approaches under analysis offers alternative ways of analyzing data, increasing the precision of information provided to end users. Approaches summarized under design involve more radical changes and far-reaching implications for how research can provide more useful information. These approaches partly flip the order of efficacy and effectiveness, focusing not on whether an intervention works in highly controlled and optimal circumstances, but first and foremost whether an intervention can be implemented and lead to anticipated outcomes in everyday practice. CONCLUSIONS: The research community, as well as the end users of research, are invited to consider ways to optimize research’s usefulness as well as its trustworthiness. Many of the research approaches in the typology are not new, and their contributions to quality have been described for generations – but their contributions to useful knowledge need more attention. |
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spelling | pubmed-72546422020-06-07 A typology of useful evidence: approaches to increase the practical value of intervention research Hasson, Henna Leviton, Laura von Thiele Schwarz, Ulrica BMC Med Res Methodol Debate BACKGROUND: Too often, studies of evidence-based interventions (EBIs) in preventive, community, and health care are not sufficiently useful to end users (typically practitioners, patients, policymakers, or other researchers). The ways in which intervention studies are conventionally conducted and reported mean that there is often a shortage of information when an EBI is used in practice. The paper aims to invite the research community to consider ways to optimize not only the trustworthiness but also the research’s usefulness in intervention studies. This is done by proposing a typology that provides some approaches to useful EBIs for intervention researchers. The approaches originate from different research fields and are summarized to highlight their potential benefits from a usefulness perspective. MAIN MESSAGE: The typology consists of research approaches to increase the usefulness of EBIs by improving the reporting of four features in intervention studies: (1) the interventions themselves, including core components and appropriate adaptations; (2) strategies to support–high-quality implementation of the interventions; (3) generalizations about the evidence in a variety of contexts; and (4) outcomes based on end users’ preferences and knowledge. The research approaches fall into three levels: Description, Analysis, and Design. The first level, Description, outlines what types of information about the intervention and its implementation, context, and outcomes can be helpful for end users. Research approaches under analysis offers alternative ways of analyzing data, increasing the precision of information provided to end users. Approaches summarized under design involve more radical changes and far-reaching implications for how research can provide more useful information. These approaches partly flip the order of efficacy and effectiveness, focusing not on whether an intervention works in highly controlled and optimal circumstances, but first and foremost whether an intervention can be implemented and lead to anticipated outcomes in everyday practice. CONCLUSIONS: The research community, as well as the end users of research, are invited to consider ways to optimize research’s usefulness as well as its trustworthiness. Many of the research approaches in the typology are not new, and their contributions to quality have been described for generations – but their contributions to useful knowledge need more attention. BioMed Central 2020-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7254642/ /pubmed/32460833 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-00992-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 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 in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Debate Hasson, Henna Leviton, Laura von Thiele Schwarz, Ulrica A typology of useful evidence: approaches to increase the practical value of intervention research |
title | A typology of useful evidence: approaches to increase the practical value of intervention research |
title_full | A typology of useful evidence: approaches to increase the practical value of intervention research |
title_fullStr | A typology of useful evidence: approaches to increase the practical value of intervention research |
title_full_unstemmed | A typology of useful evidence: approaches to increase the practical value of intervention research |
title_short | A typology of useful evidence: approaches to increase the practical value of intervention research |
title_sort | typology of useful evidence: approaches to increase the practical value of intervention research |
topic | Debate |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7254642/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32460833 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-00992-2 |
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