Using the MRC framework for complex interventions to develop a childhood obesity prevention trial: the baby milk trialObesity is common even in young preschool children. In England by the time children start school, more than 1 in 5 are overweight or obese. Infancy is a period of rapid growth...
The MRC framework for complex interventions. In defence of inappropriate methodologiesdoi:10.1136/bmj.a1655David KernickBMJ
can be considered to be in three different pools: i) free water, modelling CSF space; ii) restricted water, modelling dendrites and axons; and iii) hindered water, modelling diffusion within glial cells, neuronal cell bodies and the extracellular environment. This more complex modelling enables es...
A conceptual framework for research on subjective cognitive decline in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimers Dement. 2014;10:844–52. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Galvin JE, Roe CM, Powlishta KK, Coats MA, Muich SJ, Grant E, et al. The AD8: a brief informant ...
The framework of the Medical Research Council (MRC) for the development and evaluation of complex interventions was used to develop Fostering Connections: The Trauma-informed Foster Care Programme. A prior narrative review of the evidence base of similar programs was combined with a prior qualitative...
The MRC framework therefore incorporates a range of methodologies that generates data that spans a 'hierarchy of evidence' (Craig et al., 2008), from qualitative interview studies, to clinical trials and metaanalyses, to examine in detail the specific mechanisms of action of complex interventions....
New MRC guidance on evaluating complex interventions - Anderson () Citation Context ..., evaluation, and implementation which take place as an iterative rather than a linear process. However, the MRC framework has been criticized for not including theory-driven approaches to evaluation =-=[3]-=...
An exploratory study using the UK Medical Research Council's framework for the evaluation of complex interventions. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 6: 37. doi: 10.1186/1472-6882-6-37.Thompson TD, Weiss M. Homeopathy-what are the active ingredi- ents? An exploratory study using the ...