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© 2022 The Authors. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Current methods for reporting interventions do not allow key questions of importance to practitioners, service providers, policy-makers and people with DLD to be answered, and hence limit the implementation of effective interventions in the real world. To extend the existing EQUATOR guidelines to the context of speech language therapy/pathology for children with language disorder and to provide more specific guidance on participants, interventions and outcomes within the CONSORT checklist (used to improve the reporting of randomised controlled trials) and TIDieR (Template for Intervention Description and Replication) to ensure consistency of reporting. We will develop a core team to include representatives from each of the key groups who will either use or be influenced by the final reporting guidance across different countries. To achieve each set of aims, we will conduct reviews of the literature (which present typologies of intervention characteristics in (D)LD and related disorders); carry out focus groups; and use systematic consensus methods such as the Delphi technique, nominal group technique or consensus development conferences. Through the development and adoption of standard intervention reporting criteria, we anticipate that we will overcome the numerous barriers for practitioners, services and policy-makers in applying intervention evidence to practice. We believe that establishing international consensus on reporting guidelines would significantly accelerate progress in DLD research and the ease with which it can be used in clinical practice, by capitalising on the growth in intervention studies to enable international collaboration and new methodologies of data pooling, meta-analyses and cross-study comparisons.
Author(s): Frizelle P, McKean C, Eadie P, Ebbels S, Firicke S, Justice LM, Kunnari S, Leitao S, Morgan AT, Munro N, Murphy C-A, Storkel HL, Van Horne AO
Publication type: Editorial
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Year: 2023
Volume: 64
Issue: 3
Pages: 474-479
Print publication date: 01/03/2023
Online publication date: 20/09/2022
Acceptance date: 21/08/2022
ISSN (print): 0021-9630
ISSN (electronic): 1469-7610
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13694
DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.13694
