Developmental Childhood Stammering PSP question verification form

The purpose of this Question Verification Form is to enable Priority Setting Partnerships (PSPs) to describe clearly how they checked that their questions were unanswered, before starting the interim prioritisation stage of the process.

The JLA requires PSPs to be transparent and accountable in defining their own scope and evidence checking process. This will enable researchers and other stakeholders to understand how individual PSPs decided that their questions were unanswered, and any limitations of their evidence checking.

Name of the PSP

Developmental Childhood Stammering PSP

Please describe the scope of the PSP

The scope of the Developmental Childhood Stammering PSP is defined as:

• Children and young people (between two and 25 years of age) who have a developmental stammer in the UK, inclusive of all language backgrounds.
• Epidemiology of stammering
• Intervention approaches for childhood stammering
• Social, emotional and mental health development in children and young people who stammer

Please provide a brief overview of your approach to checking whether the questions were unanswered

We will follow a two-step process to verify whether questions have been answered by existing research:

Step 1 – several members of the steering group will sift through the questions and identify those questions that they are aware have been robustly researched and addressed, and provide sources

Step 2 – a sub-committee from the steering group will be created to check all outstanding questions against the existing literature.

Please list the type(s) of evidence you used to verify your questions as unanswered

We intend to use the following published evidence including from:

• Systematic reviews (SR)
• Meta-analyses (MA)
• Randomised control trials (RCT)

Please list the sources that you searched in order to identify that evidence

We intend to search the following sources:

• NICE guidelines
• SIGN clinical guidelines
• RCSLT clinical guidelines
• Cochrane database of systematic reviews
• Prospero
• Relevant databases for the field: PubMed, Medline, CINAHL

What search terms did you use?

CINAHL, Cochrane Database, Prospero

Search terms:
Stutter* OR Stammer*
Filtered by: Systematic Review, RCT

PubMed

Search terms:
Stutter* OR stammer*
Filtered by: SR, RCT and meta-analysis and published in last 10 years.

Medline

Search terms:
Stammer* OR stutter*
AND key words from question

Please describe the parameters of the search (eg time limits, excluded sources, country/language) and the rationale for any limitations

• Reviews of the existing literature will have been published in the last 10 years
• Reviews published in English will be included
• Research that is undertaken worldwide will be included if publication language is English
• Exclude charity reports as insufficiently robust methodology and tendency towards campaign/lobbying

Names of individuals who undertook the evidence checking

Step 1 – Sharon Millard, Kate Watkins, Ria Bernard
Step 2 – Ria Bernard, Kate Watkins, Phoebe Avbulimen

On what date was the question verification process completed?

6ᵗʰ March

Any other relevant information

N/A