A new framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions: update of Medical Research Council guidance

Kathryn Skivington; Lynsay Matthews; Sharon Anne Simpson; Peter Craig; Janis Baird; Jane M Blazeby; Kathleen Anne Boyd; Neil Craig; David P French; Emma McIntosh; Mark Petticrew; Jo Rycroft-Malone; Martin White; Laurence Moore

doi:10.1136/bmj.n2061

A new framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions: update of Medical Research Council guidance

BMJ. 2021 Sep 30:374:n2061. doi: 10.1136/bmj.n2061.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
² Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
³ Medical Research Council ConDuCT-II Hub for Trials Methodology Research and Bristol Biomedical Research Centre, Bristol, UK.
⁴ Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment Unit, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
⁵ Public Health Scotland, Glasgow, UK.
⁶ Manchester Centre for Health Psychology, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
⁷ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁸ Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
⁹ Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Abstract

The UK Medical Research Council’s widely used guidance for developing and evaluating complex interventions has been replaced by a new framework, commissioned jointly by the Medical Research Council and the National Institute for Health Research, which takes account of recent developments in theory and methods and the need to maximise the efficiency, use, and impact of research.

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research / methods*
Guidelines as Topic*
Humans
Outcome Assessment, Health Care / methods*
Research Design / standards*
United Kingdom

Abstract

MeSH terms

Grants and funding