Table 2 Inclusion and exclusion criteria using an adapted version of the PICo framework
| Â | Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria |
|---|---|---|
Population | PCPs (general practitioners/family doctors, physicians in community paediatrics, community obstetrics and gynaecology or general internal medicine) | • Participant roles unclear • PCP data not reported separately from data regarding non-PCPs, students, patients or carers |
Phenomena of interest | Barriers and facilitators (directly reported by PCPs or extracted from views, perceptions, beliefs, attitudes and experiences of PCPs) to clinical behaviour change (any behaviour in relation to patient care, including diagnosis, management, communication with patients and shared-decision-making, and inter-professional collaboration). Barriers were defined as factors which obstruct or prevent clinical behaviour change. Facilitators were defined as factors which support or promote behaviour change. | Barriers and facilitators to: • patient or carer behaviour change • change in PCP knowledge or attitudes to a patient sub-group |
Context | Majority high-income primary healthcare settings (as defined by The World Bank country classification [43]) | • Non-primary healthcare settings • Majority low-middle-income settings |
Types of studies | Any type of review (including but not limited to systematic, narrative, realist, meta-aggregation, meta-ethnography) examining qualitative, quantitative or mixed empirical studies in English | • Reviews in a language other than English • Reviews of reviews, abstracts, protocols, errata, editorials and conference reports |