Natural experiments: an overview of methods, approaches, and contributions to public health intervention research

P Craig, SV Katikireddi, A Leyland… - Annual review of public …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Population health interventions are essential to reduce health inequalities and tackle other
public health priorities, but they are not always amenable to experimental manipulation …

The impact of trial stage, developer involvement and international transferability on universal social and emotional learning programme outcomes: A meta-analysis

M Wigelsworth, A Lendrum, J Oldfield… - Social and Emotional …, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
This study expands upon the extant prior meta-analytic literature by exploring previously
theorised reasons for the failure of school-based, universal social and emotional learning …

A new framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions: update of Medical Research Council guidance

K Skivington, L Matthews, SA Simpson, P Craig, J Baird… - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
The UK Medical Research Council's widely used guidance for developing and evaluating
complex interventions has been replaced by a new framework, commissioned jointly by the …

[HTML][HTML] Framework for the development and evaluation of complex interventions: gap analysis, workshop and consultation-informed update

K Skivington, L Matthews, SA Simpson… - Health technology …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The Medical Research Council published the second edition of its framework in
2006 on developing and evaluating complex interventions. Since then, there have been …

From complex social interventions to interventions in complex social systems: future directions and unresolved questions for intervention development and evaluation

GF Moore, RE Evans, J Hawkins, H Littlecott… - …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Complex systems approaches to social intervention research are increasingly advocated.
However, there have been few attempts to consider how models of intervention science …

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 …

Theory of change: a theory-driven approach to enhance the Medical Research Council's framework for complex interventions

MJ De Silva, E Breuer, L Lee, L Asher, N Chowdhary… - Trials, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Background The Medical Research Councils' framework for complex interventions
has been criticized for not including theory-driven approaches to evaluation. Although the …

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 …

Taking account of context in population health intervention research: guidance for producers, users and funders of research

P Craig, E Di Ruggiero, KL Frolich, E Mykhalovskiy… - 2018 - storre.stir.ac.uk
Population health intervention research (PHIR) seeks to develop and evaluate policies,
programmes and other types of interventions that may affect population health and health …

Developing mixed methods research in sport and exercise psychology: Potential contributions of a critical realist perspective

TV Ryba, G Wiltshire, J North… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Notwithstanding diverse opinions and debates about mixing methods, mixed methods
research (MMR) is increasingly being used in sport and exercise psychology. In this paper …