Where possible, a comprehensive description of trials interventions has been presented for the majority of trials (additional file 2).
The theoretical underpinning and a comprehensive description of the intervention elements are provided in the first two columns of Table 1 in the Electronic Supplementary Material.
A qualitative evaluation is necessary to obtain a comprehensive description of the intervention's components, to explore conditions for implementation, to establish construct validity and to facilitate possible replication [ 9].
Adhering to such a framework is essential as it enables researchers to give a more comprehensive description of their intervention - in particular their content, delivery and contexts in which they are implemented and evaluated - enabling more successful transfer into the wider knowledge base and practice setting [ 28].
The aim of the present study was to give a comprehensive description of all non-pharmacological interventions provided by the psychiatric health services to a stratified sample of prison inmates.
Comprehensive descriptions of the interventions, methodologies and main findings from these studies have been published elsewhere.
The included studies represented a range of different countries, have used comparable outcome measures, and provided fairly comprehensive descriptions of the interventions studied.
First, we will provide a comprehensive description of a reform induced by the intervention of BTC in terms of access to health services and the various changes incurred in factors related to it.
Our first two objectives were to provide a comprehensive description of the changes induced by the intervention in terms of access to health services and changes incurred in the various factors related to it; and describe the process of how change occurred.
This paper provides a comprehensive description of the methodology used to implement and evaluate a volunteering intervention for seniors.
Methodological quality The two economic evaluations of treatments provided by APPs had methodological scores of 42% and 50% (Table 4) Comprehensive description of the competing alternatives was lacking for the two studies, especially for the description of the APP interventions (items 3).
