Contemporary Evaluation of Interventions: Mobile, Digital, and Pragmatic

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Description

Workshop: Designing Practice-Facing Impact Evaluations
Professional evidence-based practice integrates various types of evidence, strategically combining them to suit specific contexts and professional considerations. Randomised studies play a crucial role in evaluating the causal effects of interventions. This workshop will outline the key elements and practical steps involved in planning, developing, conducting, and reporting such studies, with a particular focus on psychosocial interventions and between-group causal effects in pragmatic trials. We will briefly revisit the core logic and statistical reasoning behind randomised studies of interventions to clarify when such studies are appropriate and which type fits a given research question best. The main part of the workshop will focus on how to plan, design, and report such a study, including support resources such as international guidelines and formal requirements like trial registrations, protocols, and statistical analysis plans. Participants will engage in group tasks throughout the workshop, applying these concepts to their own research fields and experiences. By the end of the workshop, participants will have the necessary tools to critically assess published randomised studies on psychosocial interventions, and the knowledge to design and develop their own rigorous studies.
Period5 Jun 2025
Event typeWorkshop
LocationBern, SwitzerlandShow on map

Keywords

  • Randomised Controlled Trials
  • Mental health
  • Education
  • Educational Attainment
  • Impact evaluations
  • Causality

UN SDGs

This activity contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 4 - Quality Education

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