ReviewPilot and feasibility studies2019
Developing interventions to improve health: a systematic mapping review of international practice between 2015 and 2016.
Review in Pilot and feasibility studies, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review of behavioural and exercise interventions for the prevention and management of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy symptoms.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2023Pooled it
- Barriers and Facilitators of Adherence to Nicotine Replacement Therapy: A Systematic Review and Analysis Using the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation, and Behaviour (COM-B) Model.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- Guidance for reporting intervention development studies in health research (GUIDED): an evidence-based consensus study.BMJ open · 2020Guideline
- Exercise snacking to improve physical function in pre-frail older adult memory clinic patients: a 28-day pilot study.BMC geriatrics · 2023Trial
- Positive attitudes toward adoption of a multi-component intervention strategy aimed at improving HIV outcomes among adolescents and young people in Nampula, Mozambique: perspectives of HIV care providers.BMC health services research · 2023Trial
- Design and Implementation of the Irie Homes Toolbox: A Violence Prevention, Early Childhood, Parenting Program.Frontiers in public health · 2020Trial
- Co-Creation of a Study Protocol to Assess the Effect of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in the Management of Fatigue in Children and Young People With Acquired Brain Injury (Fatiguebrain-tDCS).Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Article
- Development and preliminary testing of a culturally competent behaviour change intervention framework to enhance utilisation of sexual and reproductive health services among migrant adolescents in Ghana: an intervention design.International journal for equity in health · 2025Article
- Practices and Perceptions of Community Health Centres Professionals Toward Evaluation: A Qualitative Study.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2025Article
- Designing Child Nutrition Interventions to Engage Fathers: Qualitative Analysis of Interviews and Co-Design Workshops.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2024Article
- The co-production process of an assessment programme: Between clarifying identity and developing the quality of French-speaking Belgian community health centres.Health research policy and systems · 2024Article
- The Biology of Chronic Pain and Its Implications for Pain Neuroscience Education: State of the Art.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Using the COM-B model and Behaviour Change Wheel to develop a theory and evidence-based intervention for women with gestational diabetes (IINDIAGO).BMC public health · 2023Article
- Co-design and implementation of a mHealth intervention targeting fathers and mothers to improve breastfeeding.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2023Article
- Co-Design of an eHealth Intervention to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Male Taxi Drivers: ManGuard.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Improving public health sector service delivery in the Free State, South Africa: development of a provincial intervention model.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- The utility of the implementation science framework "Integrated Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services" (i-PARIHS) and the facilitator role for introducing patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in a medical oncology outpatient department.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2021Article
- Using Total Worker HealthInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Improving uptake of Fracture Prevention drug treatments: a protocol for Development of a consultation intervention (iFraP-D).BMJ open · 2021Article
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7 authors.
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Abstract
backgroundResearchers publish the processes they use to develop interventions to improve health. Reflecting on this endeavour may help future developers to improve their practice.
methodsOur aim was to collate, describe, and analyse the actions developers take when developing complex interventions to improve health. We carried out a systematic mapping review of empirical research studies that report the development of complex interventions to improve health. A search was undertaken of five databases over 2015-2016 using the term 'intervention dev*'. Eighty-seven journal articles reporting the process of intervention development were identified. A purposive subset of 30 articles, using a range of published approaches to developing interventions, was selected for in-depth analysis using principles of realist synthesis to identify the actions of intervention development and rationales underpinning those actions.
resultsThe 87 articles were from the USA (39/87), the UK (32/87), continental Europe (6/87), and the rest of the world (10/87). These mainly took a pragmatic self-selected approach (
conclusionsDevelopers take a variety of approaches to the international endeavour of complex intervention development. We have identified and described a set of actions taken within this endeavour regardless of whether developers follow a published approach or not. Future developers can use these actions and the rationales that underpin them to help them make decisions about the process of intervention development.
trial registrationPROSPERO, CRD42017080545.
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