Evaluating the quality of materials and methods for writings of final proposal in clinical trial studies in Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences based on Consort checklist

• Main Authors: Mohammad Taghi Moradi, Majid Asadi-Samani, Mahmoud Mobasheri
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences 2014-01-01
• Series: Majallah-i Bālīnī-i Parastārī va Māmāyī
• Subjects: evaluation; clinical trial; final reports; studies qualities
• Online Access: http://jcnm.skums.ac.ir/article-1-79-en.html

Background and aim: It is necessary to state total information about the design, procedures, intervention groups in study, results for data in order to present a suitable report of controlled randomized clinical trial. This study was aimed to evaluate the quality of materials and methods for the writings of final proposal in clinical trial studies in Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences. Methods: In this descriptive –analytic study, 53 approved final proposals of controlled randomized clinical trial studies in Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences were selected from 1998 to 2013. The selection and quality of material and method writing was evaluated based on final version of consort checklist. Results: The scores mean was obtained for the quality of materials and methods writings based on the checklist 6.75±1.92. The notation of interventions in each group (%96.2), identification of primary and secondary study (%88.7), and the state of statistical ways (% 86.8) showed the most scores and the randomizing the least score (%3.8). The projects which were the student theses rather than not being thesis (p=0.011). Conclusion: Performed clinical trials in Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences aren’t in a suitable report way. So, it is advised to provide a standard consort instruction and was delivered to researchers, reviewers, and statistical counselors in order to design study and report clinical trial studies.