Phase 3: data processing and verifying uncertainties

The JLA and Bates et al recommend the use of a literature review in an early stage of RPS and RCS exercises.^{26 27} For the RPS, this is to verify that each indicative question identified in the survey is a true uncertainty. For each indicative question, a search in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine’s (LSTM’s) library resources will be done to identify systematic and scoping reviews that might address the uncertainty. Any recommendations for further research identified in the reviews will be noted and may be included as priorities in the spreadsheet. Only up-to-date reviews, published in or after 2017, that focus on adolescent research in sub-Saharan Africa will be explored. For each research question, a question verification form²⁶ will be completed to show how the research team concluded that the question is broadly unanswered.