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.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Trial Registration: Understanding and Preventing Reporting Bias in Social Work Research |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1049731513512374 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049731513512374 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1469468 |
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