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Moving beyond randomized controlled trials in the evaluation of compulsory community treatment
Author(s) -
Duncan Craig,
Weich Scott,
Moon Graham,
Twigg Liz,
Fenton SarahJane,
Bhui Kamaldeep,
Canaway Alastair,
CrepazKeay David,
Keown Patrick,
Madan Jason,
McBride Orla,
Parsons Helen,
Singh Swaran
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of evaluation in clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.737
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1365-2753
pISSN - 1356-1294
DOI - 10.1111/jep.13245
Subject(s) - randomized controlled trial , mental illness , scale (ratio) , clinical trial , alternative medicine , psychology , medicine , mental health , sociology , psychiatry , physics , surgery , pathology , quantum mechanics
Abstract Compulsory community treatment for people with severe mental illness remains controversial due to conflicting research evidence. Recently, there have been challenges to the conventional view that trial‐based evidence should take precedence. This paper adds to these challenges in three ways. First, it emphasizes the need for critiques of trials to engage with conceptual and not just technical issues. Second, it develops a critique of trials centred on both how we can have knowledge and what it is we can have knowledge of. Third, it uses this critique to develop a research strategy that capitalizes on the information in large‐scale datasets.