Better reporting of interventions: template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide

By Tammy Hoffmann, P. Glasziou, I. Boutron, R. Milne, R. Perera, David Moher, Douglas G. Altman, V. Barbour, H. Macdonald, Marie Johnston and 6 more. British medical journal, 2014

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Effective behaviour change techniques for physical activity and healthy eating in overweight and obese adults; systematic review and meta-regression analyses (2017, methodology): “Methods The reporting of this systematic review were performed in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and meta-analysis guidelines (PRISMA) and Template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide [22, 23].”
Behavior Change Techniques and Their Mechanisms of Action: A Synthesis of Links Described in Published Intervention Literature (2018, methodology): “Intervention evaluations, replications, and syntheses have benefitted, in recent years, from the development of guidance for reporting interventions, such as the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) [10], and BCT Taxonomy version 1 (BCTTv1) [7, 11].”
A taxonomy of behaviour change methods: an Intervention Mapping approach (2015, neutral): “Note that practical applications therefore have as one of their characteristics one or more mode(s) of delivery, such as ‘ face to face ’ , ‘ internet ’ , or ‘ telephone ’ (Hoffmann et al., 2014).”
CONSORT 2025 statement: updated guideline for reporting randomised trials (2025, positive): “We have added seven new checklist items, revised three items, deleted one item, and integrated several items from key CONSORT extensions (Harms, 24 Outcomes, 25 Non-pharmacological Treatment 27 ) and other related reporting guidelines (TIDieR 28 ).”
Guidelines for reporting of health interventions using mobile phones: mobile health (mHealth) evidence reporting and assessment (mERA) checklist (2016, background): “14 However, no reporting guidelines exist that capture the priority descriptors needed to adequately understand and potentially replicate ICT interventions for health.”
SQUIRE 2.0 (Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence): revised publication guidelines from a detailed consensus process (2015, neutral): “Complete description of an intervention includes its inputs, internal activities, and outputs (in the form of a logic model, for example), and the mechanism(s) by which these components are expected to produce changes in a system’s performance.(17) Opportunity costs—Loss of the ability to perform ot”
Using the Delphi expert consensus method in mental health research (2015, methodology): “…criteria for quality assessment of randomized clinical trials (Verhagen et al., 1998), guidelines for clinical trial protocol content (Tetzlaff et al., 2012), standards for reporting interventions used in trials (Hoffmann et al., 2014) and methods used in systematic reviews (Pincus et al., 2011).”
Interventions to support autonomy, competence, and relatedness needs in organizations: A systematic review with recommendations for research and practice (2021, background): “Whilst highly tailored interventions can help to aid relevance across unique work contexts and may enhance ecological validity, it may also conceal the ability to determine the primary contributors to treatment effects (Hoffmann et al., 2014; Mars et al., 2013).”