Guidance on how to develop complex interventions to improve health and healthcare.
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ABSTRACT: Objective
To provide researchers with guidance on actions to take during intervention development.Summary of key points
Based on a consensus exercise informed by reviews and qualitative interviews, we present key principles and actions for consideration when developing interventions to improve health. These include seeing intervention development as a dynamic iterative process, involving stakeholders, reviewing published research evidence, drawing on existing theories, articulating programme theory, undertaking primary data collection, understanding context, paying attention to future implementation in the real world and designing and refining an intervention using iterative cycles of development with stakeholder input throughout.Conclusion
Researchers should consider each action by addressing its relevance to a specific intervention in a specific context, both at the start and throughout the development process.
SUBMITTER: O'Cathain A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6701588 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Guidance on how to develop complex interventions to improve health and healthcare.
O'Cathain Alicia A Croot Liz L Duncan Edward E Rousseau Nikki N Sworn Katie K Turner Katrina M KM Yardley Lucy L Hoddinott Pat P
BMJ open 20190815 8
<h4>Objective</h4>To provide researchers with guidance on actions to take during intervention development.<h4>Summary of key points</h4>Based on a consensus exercise informed by reviews and qualitative interviews, we present key principles and actions for consideration when developing interventions to improve health. These include seeing intervention development as a dynamic iterative process, involving stakeholders, reviewing published research evidence, drawing on existing theories, articulati ...[more]
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