Investigating theoretical concepts relevant to evidence based public health

Abstract

The PRISMA flow diagram for this CLR, presented in Figure A.1 (see Appendix), gives an overview of the main statistics from the various phases of the search strategy. Combined with this, it is important to recognise that after screening the full-text articles during the eligibility phase of the search strategy, the reviewer recognised that the two articles, despite failing to satisfy the publication criterion for inclusion and exclusion, were evidently seminal studies regarding the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of EBPH. Hence, the justifiable decision was made by the reviewer to include both studies in stage 1 of the present CLR. As documented in the literature, these EBPH-focused change management and PHI design frameworks, especially 6SQuID, have yielded positive outcomes, a prominent example being the Scottish CARE intervention designed by Hartley et al. (2018)