Table 1 Main characteristics of identified instruments

 AMMHTA

Acceptance of mobile mental health treatment applications [53]

To assess the acceptance and intention to use mobile mental health treatment applications by young adults

7 subscales

33 items

(Potential) patients using mobile mental health treatment applications

Mobile mental health treatment applications

Germany

 AGS

Attitudes Towards Guidelines Scale [54]

To assess attitudes towards guidelines

7 subscales

14 items

Nurses working in an acute care hospital setting

Implementation of an evidence-based fall-prevention guideline into nursing practice in an acute care hospital setting

Austria

 APOI-HP

Attitudes towards Psychological Online Interventions – Health Professionals [34]

To assess psychotherapists’ acceptance of internet interventions

4 subscales

16 items

Psychotherapists with practice license

Web-based intervention to treat mild to moderate depression (EVIDENT trial)

Germany

 APOI

Attitudes towards Psychological Online Interventions [38]

To assess participants’ acceptance of internet interventions

4 subscales

16 items

Participants of a web-based intervention for treatment of depression

Web-based intervention to treat mild to moderate depression (EVIDENT trial)

Germany

 CSQ-I

Client Satisfaction Questionnaire adapted to Internet-based interventions [33, 58]

To assess global satisfaction with web-based interventions

1 scale

8 items

Participants of different interventions

Web-based psychosocial interventions (to prevent MDD, to treat vaginismus, or stress-management trainings)

Germany

 CSQ-8

Client Satisfaction Questionnaire; [59, 63, 64]

Brief global measure to assess client satisfaction

1 scale

8 items

Patients receiving psychosocial or pain-related treatments

Satisfaction with different psychosocial or health-related treatments

Germany, Switzerland

 CVF

Competing Values Framework [55, 67]

To assess the organizational culture

4 subscales

25 items

Nurses working in an acute care hospital setting

Implementation of an evidence-based fall-prevention guideline into nursing practice in an acute care hospital

Austria

 DTSQ(C)

Diabetes Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire (Change) [32, 56]

To assess diabetes treatment satisfaction sensitive to even small changes in satisfaction

1 scale

6 items

Patients relying on insulin therapy

Trainings for diabetes patients using different insulin treatments

Austria; Germany, Switzerland

 DTSQ(S)

Diabetes Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire (Status) [32, 57]

To assess diabetes treatment satisfaction

1 scale

6 items

Patients relying on insulin therapy

Trainings for diabetes patients using different insulin treatments

Austria; Austria, Germany, Switzerland

 EUUS

Ease of Use and Usefulness Scale [47]

To assess the perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and their intention for future teletreatment use

4 subscales

16 items

Patients participating in a myofeedback-based teletreatment

A myofeedback-based teletreatment for subjects with complaints in the neck and shoulder region

Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden

 EHRAS

Electronic Health Record Acceptance Scale [41]

To identify the extent of acceptance of the electronic health record system and to examine influencing factors

8 subscales

30 items

General practitioners

Implementation of a nationwide electronic health record system for all patients

Austria

 EGIP

Evaluation of Guideline Implementation Process [55, 67]

To assess individuals’ perceptions of changes in relation to organizational changes

6 subscales

27 items

Nurses working in an acute care hospital setting

Implementation of an evidence-based fall-prevention guideline into nursing practice in an acute care hospital setting

Austria

 FraSiK

Frankfurt Patient Safety Climate Questionnaire for General Practices [49]

To assess safety culture (i.e., “an integrated pattern of individual and organizational behavior, based upon shared beliefs and values that continuously seeks to minimize patient harm”)

9 subscales

72 items in total, finally 47 items were used in factor analysis

Health care professionals working in general practices

Patient safety intervention in general practices

Germany

 GQ-TPB

Generic Questionnaire assessing “Theory of planned Behaviour” [30]

To assess physicians’ willingness to implement complex medical interventions and the factors influencing this willingness

2 subscales

41 items

General practitioners who received a training in arriba-lib

Arriba-lib, a multimodular electronic library of decision aids

Germany

 GUQ-DUR

German Utilization Questionnaire - Dissemination and Use of Research [50]

To measure attitude, availability, and support towards implementation of research in nursing practice

4 subscales

original version: 47 items

extended version: 58 items

Registered nurses (non-) participating in trainings in evidence-based nursing

Additional courses and training in evidence-based nursing to increase the research use in daily practice

Austria

 HSOPSC

Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture [43]

To assess safety climate from a staff perspective with 10 safety climate dimensions and 2 outcome dimensions

12 subscales

39 items

Clinicians and staff

A standardized team-training program for health care professionals (Zech et al., 2017)

Switzerland

 KFPG

Knowledge about fall prevention guideline [54]

To assess knowledge about the guideline, fall prevention, recommended intervention, and risk of falls

1 scale (7 single- and 6 multiple-choice items)

Nurses working in an acute care hospital setting

Implementation of an evidence-based fall-prevention guideline into nursing practice in an acute care hospital setting

Austria

 OLS

Organisational Learning Survey Instrument [55, 67]

To assess the organizational learning capability

5 subscales

21 items

Nurses working in an acute care hospital setting

Implementation of an evidence-based fall-prevention guideline into nursing practice in an acute care hospital setting

Austria

 PEACS

Patients’ Experiences Across Health Care Sectors [35]

Using a generic questionnaire to assess the experiences and reported outcomes in patients receiving treatment across a range of health care sectors

3 subscales for rating scales: 12 items

6 subscales for reporting items: 28 items

Patients having undergone another surgery or treatment in the past 12 months

Quality of care across different health care sectors

Germany

 PUA-MSM

Physicians’ usage and acceptance of different medication safety measures [42]

To measure user acceptance of a decision support system

12 subscales

27 items

Permanent emergency department staff in one hospital

Medication safety interventions such as repeated training, pocket checklists listing critical drugs and symptoms, computerized clinical decision support system

Germany

 SAMS-P and SAMS-S

Satisfaction with Medication Scale - Parents version (P) or Patients version (S) [51]

To assess the satisfaction with ADHD medication of parents and children in a post-marketing observational study

SAMS-P:

one scale

12 items

SAMS-S:

2 subscales

12 items

Children suffering from ADHD and receiving medication

Assessment of the effectiveness and safety of Equasym XL ®, a ADHD medication

Germany

 SOAPC

Survey of Organizational Attributes for Primary Care [31]

To assess organizational attributes and internal resources in general practices

4 subscales

23 items

Clinicians and staff

Protocol-based care management delivered by medical assistants [80]

Germany

 USE

Usefulness Scale for Patient Information Material [48]

To assess cognitive, emotional, and behavioral aspects of “subjective usefulness” of a patient information material

3 subscales (final version)

9 items

Clinical sample of patients with depression or patients with chronic low back pain

Written patient information material about either chronic low back pain or depression depending on the diagnosis

Germany

 CtI

Commitment to Innovation [52]

To assess the directors of child care centres commitment to innovation

1 scale

2 items

Early childhood educators in child care centers

School-specific compensatory education before entering the school system

Germany

 SVS

Social Validity Scale [36]

To assess the social validity of prevention programs (acceptance of programs, importance of prevention effects)

3 subscales

17 items

Primary school children and their parents

School-based program to foster social competence or prevent aggressive behavior

Germany

 IOHORC

Individual and organizational health-oriented readiness for change [45]

To assess the individual and organizational health-oriented readiness for change to target individuals’ behavior and the work environment

4 subscales

8 items

Participants of a stress management intervention

Comprehensive longitudinal stress management intervention

Switzerland

 WHPCI

Worksite Health Promotion Capacity Instrument [39]

To assess health promotion willingness of a company to implement worksite health promotion; to assess the extent of health promotion management

2 subscales

21 items

Company representatives (owner, managing director, head of division, …)

Worksite health promotion intervention

Germany

 GSE

General Self-Efficacy Scale [55, 65, 66]

To assess optimistic self-beliefs to cope with a variety of difficult demands in life

1 scale

10 items

Breimaier et al.: nurses working in an acute care hospital;

Hinz et al.: general population

Implementation of an evidence-based fall-prevention guideline into nursing practice in an acute care hospital setting

Austria; Germany

 GLTSI

German version of the Learning Transfer Systems Inventory [37, 40, 60, 61]

To assess information about the creation of circumstances to foster the training transfer effects

Kauffeld et al. (2008) [37]:

16 subscales

67 items

Training participants

Trainings to improve work-related social skills or to increase empowerment

Germany

 PKSMHP

Perceived Knowledge of the Skills (PKS) needed in the area of mental health promotion (MHP) [46]

To assess the perceived need of knowledge and skills in the area of mental health promotion

3 subscales

9 items

Practitioners in different settings

Intervention to promote people’s mental health in different settings

Austria, Germany, Estonia, Finland, Ireland

 SS-TC

Short Scale - Technology [44, 62]

To assess technology commitment in terms of three facets: technology acceptance, technology competence, technology control

3 subscales

12 items

General population and specific older users of a new technology

Acceptance of seniors towards automatic in home fall detection devices or acceptance of mobility platform for older inhabitants

Germany