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Challenges to evaluating complex interventions: a content analysis of published papers

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, June 2013
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Title
Challenges to evaluating complex interventions: a content analysis of published papers
Published in
BMC Public Health, June 2013
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-13-568
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Authors

Jessica Datta, Mark Petticrew

Abstract

There is continuing interest among practitioners, policymakers and researchers in the evaluation of complex interventions stemming from the need to further develop the evidence base on the effectiveness of healthcare and public health interventions, and an awareness that evaluation becomes more challenging if interventions are complex.We undertook an analysis of published journal articles in order to identify aspects of complexity described by writers, the fields in which complex interventions are being evaluated and the challenges experienced in design, implementation and evaluation. This paper outlines the findings of this documentary analysis.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 9 2%
Spain 2 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Sierra Leone 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 351 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 75 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 61 17%
Student > Master 44 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 26 7%
Student > Bachelor 22 6%
Other 71 19%
Unknown 70 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 95 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 53 14%
Social Sciences 47 13%
Psychology 28 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 12 3%
Other 51 14%
Unknown 83 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 July 2021.
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#3,092,188
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Outputs from BMC Public Health
#3,781
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#25,856
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#55
of 269 outputs
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