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Dear Colleagues, With apologies for cross-postings... Guidelines to help report studies evaluating health promotion interventions Last year I presented some preliminary work on a set of guidelines to help improve the quality of reporting of evaluative studies in health promotion at the 1st UK Health Promotion Research Conference in Edinburgh (together with Ashley Adamson, Leslie Carlin and Judith Rankin). We invited colleagues to help in the development of the guidelines by taking part in a piloting exercise and several delegates took up this challenge. For a number of reasons it has taken longer than we anticipated to complete the necessary development work, but we have now reached the stage where critical feedback would be of value. We would like to extend our invitation to a wider audience and now seek others who are currently writing up the results of a health promotion evaluation, who might be interested to try out the guidelines. The only condition is that you complete a brief questionnaire (by e-mail, pos tor fax) on your experience of using the guidelines by the end of January 1999. Critical comments from peers will help us to achieve a degree of consensus over the guidelines which will in turn help to ensure that they are useful when published. We will take on board as many constructive suggestions as possible and all contributions will be fully acknowledged in the finished product. Please contact me if you think would be interested to help and let me know what study you are writing up. I can then send you the guidelines in an appropriate format. Looking forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Yours sincerely, Martin... ---------------------------------------------------- Dr Martin White Senior Lecturer in Public Health Department of Epidemiology & Public Health School of Health Sciences The Medical School University of Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH United Kingdom Telephone: +44 (0)191 222 6275 Fax: +44 (0)191 222 8211 Visit our departmental WWW site at: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/deph/ ----------------------------------------------------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%