These include ethics (especially protecting patient confidentiality); science (ensuring research is well designed); information (ensuring that research findings are published and accessible); health and safety (ensuring the safety of staff and participants); and finance (being accountable for spending research funds).
This review identified very little Shiatsu research, suggesting well designed studies are needed.
The research is well designed and presented in a clear and comprehensible way.
Shiatsu practitioners should be encouraged to engage in research using well designed and reported studies, in particular with large samples and controlled designs.
Reflective lifeworld research is well designed to investigate phenomena as they are presented in daily life, which in this context are midwives' experiences of attending a birth in which the woman suffered a sphincter injury.
Recent well designed research (a double-blind randomised controlled trial) from Jessica Biesiekierski's research team in Belgium took 37 people with NCGS – defined as IBS that gets better on a gluten-free diet – and found that symptoms only improved on a low Fodmap diet.
More well designed research is required to support the tentative associations.
Based on the cleaner production drivers and barriers identified by research, the programs are well designed.
This research exemplifies that a well designed brand co-creation contest is a potent means which can not only enhance consumer engagement with the co-creation contest, but also turn engaged consumers into intangible assets for brand innovation.
If no instrument fulfilling the expert consensus exists, the international societies and other relevant healthcare bodies should set the research agenda for a well designed, carefully executed and validly analysed primary study.
Our hope is that a model will help refine the questions so that well designed research can answer them.
