Research Resource for Systematic Reviews of Complementary and Integrative Health (R24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

This initiative will support a research resource for the continuation of a database of controlled trials of complementary and integrative health interventions, which are useful to those conducting systematic reviews. The research team will need to describe how to establish a database, maintain an existing database, or convert an existing database, as well as how it will be maintained and kept current during the award. The initiative will encourage increasing outreach, access, and availability of the database to a broader scientific community, the public and policy makers. The resource should update multiple reviews with current evidence and conduct new systematic reviews each year focusing on topics that are of priority to NCCIH (NCCIH Strategic Plan 2021-2025), particularly topics related to whole person research that include multi-component complementary and integrative health interventions. In the context of whole person health, topics should focus on the exploration of the fundamental science of interconnected systems, investigating multicomponent interventions or therapeutic systems, and/or examining the impact of these interventions on multisystem or multiorgan outcomes are of particular interest.
Categories: Health.