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Development of a checklist to assess the quality of reporting of knowledge translation interventions using the Workgroup for Intervention Development and Evaluation Research (WIDER) recommendations

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Albrecht, Lauren, Archibald, Mandy, Arseneau, Danielle, Scott, Shannon D·2013·Implementation Science

DOI 10.1186/1748-5908-8-52PMC PMC3661354

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Background: Influenced by an important paper by Michie et al., outlining the rationale and requirements for detailed reporting of behavior change interventions now required by Implementation Science, we created and refined a checklist to operationalize the Workgroup for Intervention Development and Evaluation Research (WIDER) recommendations in systematic reviews. The WIDER recommendations provide a framework to identify and provide detailed reporting of the essential components of behavior change interventions in order to facilitate replication, further development, and scale-up of the interventions. Findings: The checklist was developed, applied, and improved over the course of four systematic reviews of knowledge translation (KT) strategies in a variety of healthcare settings conducted by Scott and associates. The checklist was created as one method of operationalizing the work of the WIDER in order to facilitate comparison across heterogeneous studies included in these systematic reviews. Numerous challenges were encountered in the process of creating and applying the checklist across four stages of development. The resulting improvements have produced a ‘user-friendly’ and replicable checklist to assess the quality of reporting of KT interventions in systematic reviews using the WIDER recommendations. Conclusions: With journals, such as Implementation Science, using the WIDER recommendations as publication requirements for evaluation reports of behavior change intervention studies, it is crucial to find methods of examining, measuring, and reporting the quality of reporting. This checklist is one approach to operationalize the WIDER recommendations in systematic review methodology.

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Authors: Albrecht, L., Archibald, M., Arseneau, D., & Scott, S. D.
Affiliations: University of Alberta (CA)
Corresponding author: Scott, Shannon D
ORCID: Albrecht, Lauren
Archibald, Mandy
Arseneau, Danielle
Scott, Shannon D
Venue: Implementation Science
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2013-05-16
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Pages: 52-52
ISSN: 1748-5908 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1186/1748-5908-8-52
PMC: PMC3661354
OpenAlex: W2168880871
Cited by: 252
References: 10
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FWCI: 19.96
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: gold
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Licence: cc-by
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Locations: Implementation Science (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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Funders: University of Alberta
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (102071_1)
Topics: Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Policy Implementation Science
Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Clinical practice guidelines implementation
Keywords: knowledge translation intervention, behaviour change interventions, systematic review methodology, intervention development and evaluation
MeSH terms: Forecasting, Humans, Quality Assurance, Health Care, Research Design, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Program Development, Translational Research, Biomedical, Checklist

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