Lessons from complex interventions to improve health

P Hawe - Annual review of public health, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Complexity—resulting from interactions among many component parts—is a property of both
the intervention and the context (or system) into which it is placed. Complexity increases the …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond the randomized controlled trial: a review of alternatives in mHealth clinical trial methods

Q Pham, D Wiljer, JA Cafazzo - JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2016 - mhealth.jmir.org
Background: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have long been considered the primary
research study design capable of eliciting causal relationships between health interventions …

Studying complexity in health services research: desperately seeking an overdue paradigm shift

T Greenhalgh, C Papoutsi - BMC medicine, 2018 - Springer
Complexity is much talked about but sub-optimally studied in health services research.
Although the significance of the complex system as an analytic lens is increasingly …

Process evaluation of complex interventions: Medical Research Council guidance

GF Moore, S Audrey, M Barker, L Bond, C Bonell… - bmj, 2015 - bmj.com
Process evaluation of complex interventions: Medical Research Council guidance Page 1
ReseaRch Methods & RepoRting 1 the bmj | BMJ 2015;350:h1258 | doi: 10.1136/bmj.h1258 …

Harnessing the power of theorising in implementation science

R Kislov, C Pope, GP Martin, PM Wilson - Implementation Science, 2019 - Springer
Theories occupy different positions in the scientific circle of enquiry as they vary in scope,
abstraction, and complexity. Mid-range theories play a crucial bridging role between raw …

Realist complex intervention science: applying realist principles across all phases of the Medical Research Council framework for developing and evaluating complex …

A Fletcher, F Jamal, G Moore, RE Evans… - …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The integration of realist evaluation principles within randomised controlled trials ('realist
RCTs') enables evaluations of complex interventions to answer questions about what works …

The redundancy of positivism as a paradigm for nursing research

M Corry, S Porter, H McKenna - Nursing Philosophy, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
New nursing researchers are faced with a smorgasbord of competing methodologies.
Sometimes, they are encouraged to adopt the research paradigms beloved of their senior …

Which design to evaluate complex interventions? Toward a methodological framework through a systematic review

L Minary, J Trompette, J Kivits, L Cambon… - BMC Medical Research …, 2019 - Springer
Background Evaluation of complex interventions (CI) is challenging for health researchers
and requires innovative approaches. The objective of this work is to present the main …

[PDF][PDF] Process evaluation of complex interventions

G Moore, S Audrey, M Barker, L Bond… - UK medical Research …, 2014 - core.ac.uk
The MRC Population Health Sciences Research Network (PHSRN) was established by the
UK Medical Research Council in 2005. The work of the network focuses on methodological …

Protocol—the RAMESES II study: developing guidance and reporting standards for realist evaluation

T Greenhalgh, G Wong, J Jagosh, J Greenhalgh… - BMJ open, 2015 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Realist evaluation is an increasingly popular methodology in health services
research. For realist evaluations (RE) this project aims to: develop quality and reporting …