Table 2 Quality assessment of reports on intervention theories of change
Intervention name | Clear pathways from intervention components to outcomes | Constructs or concepts clearly defined | Clearly describes how constructs are inter-related | Clearly explains mechanisms underlying inter-relationships between constructs | Engages with how mechanisms and outcomes might vary by context | Initial agreement between reviewers (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
China – Gate HIV Prevention Programme Online Intervention (no name) Cheng [59] | Y | Y | N | N | N | 100 |
Cognitive Vaccine Approach Davidovich [70] | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | 100 |
Gay Cruise Kok [73] | Y | Y | N | N | N | 20 |
HealthMindr Sullivan [84] | N | N | N | N | N | 80 |
Jones [66] | Y | Y | Y | N | N | 80 |
Hot and Safe M4M (website name) Carpenter [68] | Y | N | Y | N | N | 60 |
Internet-Based Safer Sex Intervention (no name) Milam [76] | N | N | N | N | N | 100 |
Keep it Up! Mustanski [77] | N | Y | N | N | N | 80 |
Greene [71] | Y | Y | N | N | N | 80 |
Mustanski [79] | N | N | N | N | N | 80 |
Mustanski [80] | N | N | N | N | N | 100 |
Madkins [64] | N | Y | N | N | N | 80 |
myDEx Bauermeister [55] | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | 100 |
Bauermeister [2019] | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | 100 |
MOTIVES Linnemayr [74] | Y | N | N | N | Y | 60 |
MyPEEPS Mobile Kuhns [88] | N | Y | N | N | N | 80 |
Online Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (no name) Avellar [58] | Y | Y | N | N | N | 60 |
People Like Us Tan [65] | N | Y | N | N | N | 100 |
Queer Sex Ed Mustanski [78] | N | Y | Y | N | N | 60 |
Rainbow SPARX Lucassen [75] | Y | Y | N | N | N | 100 |
Role-Playing Game Coulter [62] | Y | Y | Y | N | N | 80 |
Safe Behaviour and Screening Chiou [61] | N | Y | N | N | N | 100 |
Sex Positive! Hirshfield [72] | Y | Y | N | N | N | 80 |
Hirshfield [63] | N | N | N | N | N | 100 |
Sexpulse Rosser [82] | N | N | N | N | N | 80 |
Wilkerson [86] | N | N | N | N | N | 0 |
Smartphone Self-Monitoring (no name) Swendeman [85] | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | 100 |
SOLVE Christensen [69] | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | 100 |
TXT-Auto Reback [81] | N | N | N | N | N | 100 |
WRAPP Bowen [67] (internet-delivered risk reduction; no name; preliminary work to WRAPP) | N | Y | Y | N | N | 60 |
Bowen [56] | Y | Y | Y | N | N | 100 |
Williams [87] (Hope Project; extends WRAPP) | N | Y | N | N | N | 80 |
Schonnesson [83] (SMART; Swedish adaptation of WRAPP) | Y | Y | Y | N | N | 100 |