Table 2 Inclusion and exclusion criteria
Included | Excluded |
|---|---|
Published evaluation studies including real-world or service evaluations, randomised control trials, observational and natural experiments, feasibility and pilot studies, outcome and process evaluations, quasi-experimental, pre-post designs, effectiveness and impact studies. All types of evaluations using quantitative and/or qualitative methods will be included, whether they have used specified frameworks or not. | Commentaries or discussion papers, conceptual papers, published extracts, books, editorials, systematic reviews, clinical case-reports, research protocols and reported programme designs. |
Reported evaluation studies of programmes that have increasing physical activity as the primary stated goal of the programme, including reduced sitting time or sedentary behaviour. | Reported evaluation studies of programmes that have other health behaviours as the primary stated goal of the programme, e.g. smoking, alcohol, substance abuse, eating disorder behaviours. Reported evaluation studies that state other behavioural outcomes or clinical measures as the primary goal of the programme, e.g. programmes aimed at weight loss, maintaining a healthy weight, prevention or management of diabetes, prevention of stroke or heart attack, improvement of aerobic or cognitive function, reduction of fall,; improvement of physical performance/function through physical activity or exercise. |
Evaluations of programmes that align with approaches to behaviour change, i.e. programmes that correspond to any of the nine intervention functions on the Behaviour Change Wheel (education, persuasion, incentivisation, coercion, training, enablement, modelling, environmental restructuring and restrictions) [21]. | Evaluations of programmes that do not correspond to any of the nine intervention functions on the Behaviour Change Wheel (education, persuasion, incentivisation, coercion, training, enablement, modelling, environmental restructuring and restrictions). |
Studies that referred to one or more evaluation frameworks. | Studies that did not refer to any evaluation framework. |