Do We Report the Information that is Necessary to Give Psychology Away? A Scoping Review of the Psychological Intervention Literature 2000-2018

Abstract

Psychologists are spending a considerable amount of time researching and developing interventions, in hopes that our efforts can help to tackle some of society’s pressing problems. Unfortunately, those hopes are often not realized—many interventions are developed and reported in our journals but do not make their way into the broader world they were designed to change. One potential reason for this is that there may be a gap between the information reported in our papers, and the information others, such as practitioners, need to implement our findings. We explored this possibility in the current paper. We conducted a scoping review to assess the extent to which the information needed for implementation is reported in psychological intervention papers. Results suggest psychological intervention papers report, at most, 64% of the information needed to implement interventions. We discuss the implications of this for both psychological theories and applying them in the world.

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“…Unlike systematic reviews that synthesize literature on a more narrowly defined (and often disciplinebound) question, scoping reviews synthesize research from multiple fields that work on topic areas to provide coherent insights into the conceptual state of research. 47,48 Scoping reviews map literatures in terms of the volume, nature, and characteristics of relevant research. They allow scholars to identify gaps in the literature in ways that do not impose strict constraints that characterize meta-analyses or other synthesis techniques.…”

“…They allow scholars to identify gaps in the literature in ways that do not impose strict constraints that characterize meta-analyses or other synthesis techniques. [48][49][50]…”