Morph's video: SWAT Delivery Animation

Transcript SWAT Delivery To ensure smooth delivery of a study within a trial, a SWAT, you should consider the following guidance. PPI Review Patient and public input is important, just as it is in a trial. It can help to develop or modify the SWAT intervention to make it suitable for the patient population. It can also help you decide if participant information sharing, or consent for the SWAT, is needed. Approvals Most SWATs need research ethics approval. However operational or study management SWATs for example, study training delivery methods, may not require approval. SWATs can either be included in the main host trial approval or later as an amendment. When obtaining approvals be clear what is part of the SWAT and what is part of the host trial. Include details if the SWAT has previously been approved and conducted by someone else. Ethics committees may query whether participants should be informed about and consent to the SWAT. Participants' awareness can jeopardise the SWAT and is usually not required. Registration It is important to register SWATs so the wider research community knows which have been proposed, or are being undertaken. The SWAT repository is the best resource for this. Monitoring Monitoring of intervention delivery should be planned from the outset, just as it would be in a trial. This is important where technology is used, particularly if this is automated or delivered by a third party. Analysis An analysis plan should be written either within that of the host trial or separately, prior to doing the analysis. Analysis is often simple. While this can be completed by a statistician… it is also possible for researchers or students to complete it. If a SWAT replicates an existing SWAT… a meta-analysis combining all available data should be carried out as part of the analysis.