RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Single-Case Reporting Guideline In BEhavioural Interventions (SCRIBE) 2016 Statement
JF Physical Therapy
JO Phys Ther
FD American Physical Therapy Association
SP e1
OP e10
DO 10.2522/ptj.2016.96.7.e1
VO 96
IS 7
A1 Tate, Robyn L.
A1 Perdices, Michael
A1 Rosenkoetter, Ulrike
A1 Shadish, William
A1 Vohra, Sunita
A1 Barlow, David H.
A1 Horner, Robert
A1 Kazdin, Alan
A1 Kratochwill, Thomas
A1 McDonald, Skye
A1 Sampson, Margaret
A1 Shamseer, Larissa
A1 Togher, Leanne
A1 Albin, Richard
A1 Backman, Catherine
A1 Douglas, Jacinta
A1 Evans, Jonathan J.
A1 Gast, David
A1 Manolov, Rumen
A1 Mitchell, Geoffrey
A1 Nickels, Lyndsey
A1 Nikles, Jane
A1 Ownsworth, Tamara
A1 Rose, Miranda
A1 Schmid, Christopher H.
A1 Wilson, Barbara
YR 2016
UL http://jcore-reference.highwire.org/content/96/7/e1.abstract
AB Abstract We developed a reporting guideline to provide authors with guidance about what should be reported when writing a paper for publication in a scientific journal using a particular type of research design: the single-case experimental design. This report describes the methods used to develop the Single-Case Reporting guideline In BEhavioural interventions (SCRIBE) 2016. As a result of 2 online surveys and a 2-day meeting of experts, the SCRIBE 2016 checklist was developed, which is a set of 26 items that authors need to address when writing about single-case research. This article complements the more detailed SCRIBE 2016 Explanation and Elaboration article (Tate et al., 2016) that provides a rationale for each of the items and examples of adequate reporting from the literature. Both these resources will assist authors to prepare reports of single-case research with clarity, completeness, accuracy, and transparency. They will also provide journal reviewers and editors with a practical checklist against which such reports may be critically evaluated. We recommend that the SCRIBE 2016 is used by authors preparing manuscripts describing single-case research for publication, as well as journal reviewers and editors who are evaluating such manuscripts.Scientific Abstract Reporting guidelines, such as the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) Statement, improve the reporting of research in the medical literature (Turner et al., 2012). Many such guidelines exist and the CONSORT Extension to Nonpharmacological Trials (Boutron et al., 2008) provides suitable guidance for reporting between-groups intervention studies in the behavioral sciences. The CONSORT Extension for N-of-1 Trials (CENT 2015) was developed for multiple crossover trials with single individuals in the medical sciences (Shamseer et al., 2015; Vohra et al., 2015), but there is no reporting guideline in the CONSORT tradition for single-case research used in the behavioral sciences. We developed the Single-Case Reporting guideline In BEhavioural interventions (SCRIBE) 2016 to meet this need. This Statement article describes the methodology of the development of the SCRIBE 2016, along with the outcome of 2 Delphi surveys and a consensus meeting of experts. We present the resulting 26-item SCRIBE 2016 checklist. The article complements the more detailed SCRIBE 2016 Explanation and Elaboration article (Tate et al., 2016) that provides a rationale for each of the items and examples of adequate reporting from the literature. Both these resources will assist authors to prepare reports of single-case research with clarity, completeness, accuracy, and transparency. They will also provide journal reviewers and editors with a practical checklist against which such reports may be critically evaluated.Keywords: single-case design, methodology, reporting guidelines, publication standardsSupplemental materials: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/arc0000026.supp