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creators_name: Harrison, BA
creators_name: Mayo-Wilson, E
title: Trial Registration: Understanding and Preventing Reporting Bias in Social Work Research
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divisions: UCL
divisions: A01
divisions: B02
divisions: C07
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abstract: Randomized controlled trials are considered the gold standard for evaluating social work interventions. However, published reports can systematically overestimate intervention effects when researchers selectively report large and significant findings. Publication bias and other types of reporting biases can be minimized through prospective trial registration that is now an accepted part of medical research. In this article, we explain how trial registration can promote ethical and valid trials in social work, and we explain how social work researchers can register trials. We conclude that journal editors should ask authors to report trial registration numbers in all reports of randomized trials in social work.
date: 2014-05-01
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049731513512374
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
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primo_central: open_green
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doi: 10.1177/1049731513512374
lyricists_name: Harrison, Bronwyn
lyricists_id: BHARR96
full_text_status: public
publication: Research on Social Work Practice
volume: 24
number: 3
pagerange: 372 - 376
issn: 1049-7315
citation:        Harrison, BA;    Mayo-Wilson, E;      (2014)    Trial Registration: Understanding and Preventing Reporting Bias in Social Work Research.                   Research on Social Work Practice , 24  (3)   372 - 376.    10.1177/1049731513512374 <https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731513512374>.       Green open access   
 
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