Reporting Guidelines for Community-Based Participatory Research Did Not Improve the Reporting Quality of Published Studies: A Systematic Review of Studies on Smoking Cessation

Daisuke Kato; Yuki Kataoka; Erfen Gustiawan Suwangto; Makoto Kaneko; Hideki Wakabayashi; Daisuke Son; Ichiro Kawachi

doi:10.3390/ijerph17113898

Reporting Guidelines for Community-Based Participatory Research Did Not Improve the Reporting Quality of Published Studies: A Systematic Review of Studies on Smoking Cessation

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 May 31;17(11):3898. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17113898.

Authors

Daisuke Kato¹, Yuki Kataoka², Erfen Gustiawan Suwangto³, Makoto Kaneko^{4

5}, Hideki Wakabayashi⁶, Daisuke Son⁷, Ichiro Kawachi⁸

Affiliations

¹ Department of Family Medicine, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie 514-0104, Japan.
² Hospital Care Research Unit and Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki General Medical Center, Hyogo 660-8550, Japan.
³ Institute for Networking Development of Primary Care Clinics, Department of Medical Ethics, Law, and Primary Care, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta 12930, Indonesia.
⁴ Department of Family and Community Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 431-3125, Japan.
⁵ Primary Care Research Unit, Graduate School of Health Data Science, Yokohama City University Yokohama, Kanagawa 236-0027, Japan.
⁶ Department of Community Medicine, Kameyama, Mie University School of Medicine, Mie 514-0104, Japan.
⁷ Department of Medical Education Studies, International Research Center for Medical Education, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan.
⁸ Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA 02115, USA.

Abstract

The objective of this study was to assess the impact of a 2010 community-based participatory research (CBPR) reporting guideline on the quality of reporting a CBPR on smoking cessation. We searched the MEDLINE, Embase, the Cochrane Central Register for Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), PsycINFO, and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) databases and included articles published up to December 2019 (PROSPERO: CRD42019111668). We assessed reporting quality using the 13-item checklist. Of the 80 articles identified, 42 (53%) were published after 2010. The overall reporting quality before and after 2010 was poor and did not differ significantly (mean difference: 0.66, 95% confidence interval [CI]: -0.21 to 1.53). The total reporting scores of the studies did not differ significantly according to the effect size of the intervention (beta coefficient: -2.86, 95% CI: -5.77 to 0.04). This study demonstrates the need to improve the quality of reporting CBPRs. We recommend that journal editors endorse the CBPR reporting guideline to encourage its use by more researchers.

Keywords: community-based participatory research; literature review; reporting guideline; smoking cessation.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Systematic Review

MeSH terms

Checklist
Community-Based Participatory Research*
Humans
Publications*
Smoking Cessation*
Text Messaging*