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The goal of this registry is to provide research evidence for use in decision making. This site will provide a rating of the methodological quality for each review, along with a summary statement outlining the review contents, methods, findings and implications for policy and practice. Summary statements will be provided for higher quality evidence first, and as soon as funding and appropriate authors are located. At present, not all reviews have summary statements and we are working to increase the number of summary statements provided.

Every review in the registry has been subjected to the following:

1. Relevance tested:
   All reviews must meet 5 relevance criteria to ensure that they are reviews of public health and health promotion interventions. A dictionary accompanies the quality assessment tool to define each criterion for the user.
   
   view relevance tool (pdf download)
   view dictionary tool (pdf download)
   
   
2. Quality assessed:
   All reviews are assessed for methodological quality using a quality assessment tool adapted by the research team from commonly-accepted evidence-informed principles. Reviews are given a rating of strong, moderate, or weak, so that users can decide whether to view evidence of a certain quality rating. A dictionary accompanies the quality assessment tool to define each criterion for the user.
   
   view quality assessment tool (pdf download)
   view dictionary (pdf download)
   
   
3. Keyworded:
   All reviews have been keyworded according to commonly-used public health and health promotion terms, so the registry can easily be searched by focus of review (e.g., mental health), population, intervention location, and intervention strategies.
   
   view keyword tool (pdf download)
   
   
4. Summarized:
   A summary statement has been written to provide a clear overview, in plain language, of the full review. Summary statements describe the issue (framed in a Canadian context), review content, methods and findings, and discuss implications for policy and practice. The summary statements were co-written by public health researchers and public health/health promotion decision makers.
   
   view summary statement template (pdf download)