Richardson, Michelle;
Lorenc, Theo;
Sutcliffe, Katy;
Sowden, Amanda;
Thomas, James;
(2025)
Best evidence toolkits: a case study on interventions for preventing violence against women and girls (VAWG).
Systematic Reviews
, 14
, Article 112. 10.1186/s13643-025-02798-z.
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Abstract
Research teams report challenges in conducting overviews and many of these relate to the synthesis of outcome data from multiple reviews that lead to unclear evidence. This limits research from being used by policymakers and other review users who need accessible robust evidence. In this commentary, we present a case study on creating a toolkit of interventions for preventing violence against women and girls (VAWG). This toolkit is underpinned by systematic methods and a priori criteria that identify a single best up-to-date systematic review of each subtopic. The best evidence toolkit approach does not require the synthesis of multiple reviews and produces clear, standardised evidence across subtopics efficiently. This approach offers a pragmatic alternative to overviews when presenting a broad spectrum of intervention approaches, populations or outcomes. This approach may be particularly beneficial when the primary aim is to communicate with policymakers.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Best evidence toolkits: a case study on interventions for preventing violence against women and girls (VAWG) |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s13643-025-02798-z |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-025-02798-z |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | Toolkits, Best evidence, Knowledge translation, Overviews |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10209165 |
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