Process evaluation of complex interventions: Medical Research Council guidance

By G. Moore, S. Audrey, M. Barker, L. Bond, C. Bonell, W. Hardeman, L. Moore, Alicia O'Cathain, T. Tinati, D. Wight and 1 more. British medical journal, 2015

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Process evaluation is an essential part of designing and testing complex interventions. New MRC guidance provides a framework for conducting and reporting process evaluation studies

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions

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The Person-Based Approach to Intervention Development: Application to Digital Health-Related Behavior Change Interventions (2015, neutral): “Including qualitative studies can be extremely valuable in trial and implementation settings, where they are now recommended as part of the wider mixed methods evaluation of implementation [55].”
CONSORT Statement for Randomized Trials of Nonpharmacologic Treatments: A 2017 Update and a CONSORT Extension for Nonpharmacologic Trial Abstracts. (2017, background): “Nonpharmacologic treatments frequently involve multicomponent interventions delivered by multiple care providers, and each component or provider may influence the success of the overall intervention (20).”
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists clinical practice guidelines for mood disorders (2015, background): “It has therefore been argued that RCTs are not optimal methodologies for validating psychotherapies, and instead process evaluation is required (Moore et al., 2015).”
Realist review (2021, background): “Whilst acknowledging that no intervention is likely to be ‘simple’ the United KingdomMedical Research Council (Moore et al., 2015) described a complex intervention as one that is multi-faceted, with numerous interacting components that may often require tailoring or adaptation, and which is subject ”
Guidance on how to develop complex interventions to improve health and healthcare (2019, methodology): “Indeed, they are advocated for use in process evaluations alongside outcome evaluations in the recent MRC Guidance on process evaluation.(15)”