Ensuring Prevention Science Research is Synthesis-Ready for Immediate and Lasting Scientific Impact.

Autor: Hennessy EA; Center for Addiction Medicine, Recovery Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. ehennessy@mgh.harvard.edu., Acabchuk RL; Institute for Collaboration On Health, Intervention, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut & Policy, Mansfield, USA., Arnold PA; Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia., Dunn AG; Biomedical Informatics and Digital Health, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia., Foo YZ; Evolution & Ecology Research Centre and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia., Johnson BT; Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, 406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020, Storrs, CT, 06269-1020, USA., Geange SR; Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway., Haddaway NR; Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.; Mercator Research Institute On Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin, Germany.; Africa Centre for Evidence, Johannesburg, South Africa., Nakagawa S; Evolution & Ecology Research Centre and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia., Mapanga W; Faculty of Health Sciences, Non-Communicable Diseases Research Division of the Wits Health Consortium, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa., Mengersen K; School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia., Page MJ; School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia., Sánchez-Tójar A; Department of Evolutionary Biology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany., Welch V; School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Bruyere Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada., McGuinness LA; Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research [Prev Sci] 2022 Jul; Vol. 23 (5), pp. 809-820. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jul 21.
DOI: 10.1007/s11121-021-01279-8
Abstrakt: When seeking to inform and improve prevention efforts and policy, it is important to be able to robustly synthesize all available evidence. But evidence sources are often large and heterogeneous, so understanding what works, for whom, and in what contexts can only be achieved through a systematic and comprehensive synthesis of evidence. Many barriers impede comprehensive evidence synthesis, which leads to uncertainty about the generalizability of intervention effectiveness, including inaccurate titles/abstracts/keywords terminology (hampering literature search efforts), ambiguous reporting of study methods (resulting in inaccurate assessments of study rigor), and poorly reported participant characteristics, outcomes, and key variables (obstructing the calculation of an overall effect or the examination of effect modifiers). To address these issues and improve the reach of primary studies through their inclusion in evidence syntheses, we provide a set of practical guidelines to help prevention scientists prepare synthesis-ready research. We use a recent mindfulness trial as an empirical example to ground the discussion and demonstrate ways to ensure the following: (1) primary studies are discoverable; (2) the types of data needed for synthesis are present; and (3) these data are readily synthesizable. We highlight several tools and practices that can aid authors in these efforts, such as using a data-driven approach for crafting titles, abstracts, and keywords or by creating a repository for each project to host all study-related data files. We also provide step-by-step guidance and software suggestions for standardizing data design and public archiving to facilitate synthesis-ready research.
(© 2021. Society for Prevention Research.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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