Ensuring Prevention Science Research is Synthesis-Ready for Immediate and Lasting Scientific Impact.

ABSTRACT: When seeking to inform and improve prevention efforts and policy, it is important to be able to robustly synthesize all available evidence. But evidence sources are often large and heterogeneous, so understanding what works, for whom, and in what contexts can only be achieved through a systematic and comprehensive synthesis of evidence. Many barriers impede comprehensive evidence synthesis, which leads to uncertainty about the generalizability of intervention effectiveness, including inaccurate titles/abstracts/keywords terminology (hampering literature search efforts), ambiguous reporting of study methods (resulting in inaccurate assessments of study rigor), and poorly reported participant characteristics, outcomes, and key variables (obstructing the calculation of an overall effect or th

SUBMITTER: Hennessy EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8776892 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature