External validity in healthy public policy: application of the RE-AIM tool to the field of housing improvement.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Researchers and publishers have called for improved reporting of external validity items and for testing of existing tools designed to assess reporting of items relevant to external validity. Few tools are available and most of this work has been done within the field of health promotion.

Methods

We tested a tool assessing reporting of external validity items which was developed by Green & Glasgow on 39 studies assessing the health impacts of housing improvement. The tool was adapted to the topic area and criteria were developed to define the level of reporting, e.g. "some extent". Each study was assessed by two reviewers.

Results

The tool was applicable to the studies but some items required considerable editing to facilitate agreement between the two revi

SUBMITTER: Thomson HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3481477 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature