Trials Register of Promoting Health Interventions (TRoPHI)
About this database
 

Introduction

The Trials Register of Promoting Health Interventions (TRoPHI) is unique in its focussed coverage of trials of interventions in health promotion and public health worldwide. It covers both randomised and non-randomised controlled trials and currently contains details of over 12,000 trials.

All reports of trials are assessed and systematically keyworded with generic keywords (e.g. country, health focus, population group, intervention characteristics (including setting, provider and type) and trial type (RCT or trial).

Using TRoPHI

  • Searches can be carried out using keyword and free-text terms. Searches can be combined using AND, OR, NOT, within the search history page. It is also possible to search by year and use wildcards.

  • Reports enable visual mapping and analysis of the search results.

  • Help provides advice on using this database.

Recording your findings

  • Search results can be exported in RIS format.

  • Reports can be cut and pasted into word processing software. Landscape format provides the best results

  • Search strategies can be exported in XML format for the purposes of uploading and re-running at a later date.

Obtaining further information on the study

The study record includes the citation and researcher-assigned keywords. There are links for seeking out the record on PubMed and Google. Items in PubMed often include the abstracts, and these can be added to a PubMed clipboard for saving or exporting.

How are the trials identified?

The reports are identified in the following ways:

  • As a result of searches to identify studies for systematic reviews within the EPPI-Centre;

  • Quarterly sensitive searches since August 2004;

  • As the official register of the former Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health field, it contains the results of hand searching journals conducted by the Field.

How current is the register?

TRoPHI is updated quarterly to keep it as current as possible.

User consultation

We welcome any feedback on the utility and usability of TRoPHI. Please send any comments to EPPIAdmin@ioe.ac.uk

 		 

NB: please bookmark this introduction page rather than the other pages if you'd like to remember this address.


(Landscape mode works best if you are printing wide search results or report tables.)

EPPI-Centre
This database is hosted by the EPPI-Centre which is part of the Social Science Research Unit at the UCL Institute of Education, London.