Learning from OCTET - exploring the acceptability of clinical trials management methods.

Trials
Catherine Arundel, Judith Gellatly

Abstract

Conducting research can be time consuming, difficult and challenging. Guidance and pragmatic advice focussing on randomised controlled trial conduct are available but do not necessarily constitute comprehensive guidance. A successful trial is one that recruits to time and target and collects high-quality data within the originally agreed budget. Standardised trial management tools have outlined key project management elements for a successful trial as a method of ensuring good practice in research trials: initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and closure. Lessons are also frequently learnt during the development and conduct of trials but rarely shared for the benefit of others. For the wider research team, the key focus will always be on the execution and delivery of a study. The aim of this study was to evaluate the acceptability of clinical trials management methods, focussing on study execution and monitoring, as implemented in the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment Programme-funded Obsessive Compulsive Treatment Efficacy Trial (OCTET). Workshops, questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were used to explore acceptability of trial management methods with members of the OCTET Trial ...Continue Reading

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
cognitive

Software Mentioned

COREQ
NVivo
YBOCS
OCTET
Excel

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