Systematic Reviews of Health Promotion and Public Health interventions
Rebecca Armstrong, Elizabeth Waters on behalf of the Guidelines for Systematic Reviews in Health Promotion and Public Health Taskforce.
Version 2, October 2007
Available online PDF [52p.] at: http://www.ph.cochrane.org/Files/Website%20Documents/Guidelines%20HP_PH%20reviews.pdf
“…These guidelines complement Sections 3 to 11 of the Cochrane Reviewers’ Handbook. The content has been prepared by health promotion and public health researchers, decision-makers and practitioners experienced with both the use and conduct of systematic reviews. While these guidelines were originally developed to support the conduct of systematic reviews, they are also important for the conduct of primary research and for more informal reviews of research
evidence. Many of the topics may not be unique to health promotion and public health reviews, but they are issues that are important in enabling research to be used in public health policy and practice decision making.
Conducting systematic reviews of complex health promotion and public health interventions can be methodologically challenging due to a number of reasons.[1] Systematic reviews should aim to address two questions;
1) does the intervention work (effectiveness), and
2) why does it work (including how does it work)? The guidelines present recommendations to enable authors to address the above questions.
The guidelines contain twelve topic areas. Each topic is designed with two sections: background and recommendations. The guidelines suggest that review authors consider and address each of the recommendations in their review. Whilst it may not be possible to elicit some of the recommended information from the studies, for example, intervention context, theoretical frameworks, and process data, it is important to report when this data is not available. The gaps in reporting should stimulate further improvements in public health and health promotion research, and its publication….”
Content:
1. Planning the review
2. Study designs to include
3. Searching for health promotion and public health literature
4. Quality Assessment
5. Theoretical framework
6. Integrity of intervention
7. Heterogeneity in public health and health promotion reviews
8. Integrating qualitative and quantitative studies
9. Ethics, equity and inequalities
10. Sustainability
11. Context
12. Applicability
References
Guidelines for Systematic Reviews in Health Promotion and Public Health
Nicki Jackson
Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field
Victorian Health Promotion Foundation
The production of this handbook was funded by a grant from the Australian Government Public Health Education and Research Program (PHERP).
Available online as PDF file [98p.] at: http://www.ph.cochrane.org/Files/Website%20Documents/HPPH_systematic_review_handbook.pdf
This handbook provides a working framework to conduct a systematic review of a health promotion or public health intervention. The purpose of this handbook is to describe the steps of the systematic review process and provide some working examples to practice prior to commencing a review. The handbook, however, is not intended to be used as a single resource for conducting reviews.
Contents
Introduction
Unit One: Background to Systematic Reviews
Unit Two: International Systematic Review Initiatives
Unit Three: Resources Required
Unit Four: Developing a Protocol
Unit Five: Asking an Answerable Question
Unit Six: Finding The Evidence
Unit Seven: Data Abstraction
Unit Eight: Principles of Critical Appraisal
Unit Nine: Synthesising the Evidence
Unit Ten: Interpretation of Results
Unit Eleven: Writing the Systematic Review
Professor Elizabeth Waters Director, Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field, Chair in Public Health,
Dr Celia McMichael School of Public Health, La
Dr Lucie Rychetnik Sydney Health Projects Group, The
John Bennett Project coordinator,
Train the Trainer manual:
PDF 146p. at: http://www.ph.cochrane.org/Files/Website%20Documents/Train_the_trainer_manual.pdf
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