Review initiation: Indicate whether reported that PT is used to communicate aims of review in engaging with stakeholder or involving/recruiting different team members or obtaining funding | Review question/methodology: Indicate whether reported that PT is based on, or adapted from, existing tools/theories | Review question/background: Indicate assumptions on what intervention(s) may be likely to work/not work for SES populations? (a priori PT) | Review question/background: Indicate assumptions on how/why intervention(s) may be likely to work/not work for SES populations? (a priori PT) | Search strategy (selection criteria): Indicate whether reported that PT is used to make decisions on the inclusion criteria for studies in the review | Description of study characteristics: Indicate whether reported that PT is used to make decisions on coding information on study characteristics (data extraction) | Quality and relevance assessment: Indicate whether reported that PT is used as reference point in choosing quality assessment tools | Used to guide analyses: State that they specifically used their PT of how the intervention may work to guide the analysis | Synthesis: Present their synthesis based on their PT | Discussion/Conclusion: Use programme theory to explain what intervention(s) may be likely to work/not work for SES populations at the end of the review to explain their findings? (a posteriori PT) | Discussion/Conclusion: Revise or revisit or state their programme theory of how the intervention is likely to work’ at the end of the review to explain their findings? (a posteriori PT) | Additional considerations: Indicate whether reported that tool is based on shared consensus across the team or across stakeholders | Additional considerations: Was PT tested? | |
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Backholeret al. [28] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
Bambra et al. [29]a | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Bambra et al. [29]b | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Beauchamp et al. [33] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
Boelsen-Robinson et al. [34] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
Brown et al. [36]c | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Brown et al. [37] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||
Brown et al. [38] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||
Brown et al. [39] | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||
Bull et al. [50] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
Ciciriello et al. [58] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
Cleland et al. [41] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||
Ejemot-Nwadiaro et al. [59] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||
Everson-Hock et al. [42] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
Gardner et al. [43] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||
Gittelsohn et al. [60] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||
Gurol-Urganci et al. [61] | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||
Hartmann-Boyce et al. [62] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
Hill et al. [44] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||
Hollands et al. [45] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
Kader et al. [46] | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||
Kendrick et al. [47] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||
Kristjansson et al. [48] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
Kroon et al. [63] | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||||
Laba et al. [49] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
Laws et al. [50] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
Lutge et al. [64] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||
Magnee et al. [51] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
McGill et al. [52] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
McLean et al. [20] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Mizdrak et al. [53] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||
Moore et al. [54] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
Moredich et al. [55] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||
Pega et al. [65] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||
Polec et al. [66] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Rojas-Garcia et al. [56] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
Sarink et al. [57] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Total | 2 | 15 | 32 | 28 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 15 | 15 | 34 | 31 | 2 | 21 |