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ECAP Journal - February 2026 issue
Editorial: How universal quality standards in intervention meta-analyses favor evidence from medical over psychosocial studies by Annabeth P. Groenman, Anouk van Dijk, Tycho J. Dekkers, Barbara J. van den Hoofdakker, Saskia van der Oord, Marjolein Luman & Constantina Psyllou
“…the current quality criteria for intervention studies a) disproportionately downgrade complete fields of evidence and b) complicate cross-domain comparisons, such as meta-analyses including both medical and psychosocial intervention studies. Such comparisons are highly clinically relevant, as clinicians are often faced with the practical question which type of intervention to offer. The aim of this editorial is to outline this issue and clarify what is at stake for researchers, practitioners and clients receiving evidence-based intervention recommendations.”
The European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP) is a not-for-profit association whose purpose is to promote the mental health and wellbeing of children, adolescents and their families. As well as to improve the quality of their lives and to ensure children’s right for support to healthy mental development and for appropriate preventive and therapeutic mental health services and interventions.
