Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria for the scoping review
Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria |
|---|---|
1. English language | 1. Non-English language |
2. Published between January 2011 to the present (or January 2015 to the present for articles identified by hand-searching key journals) | 2. Full text unavailable |
3. Published prior to 2011 (or 2015 for articles identified by hand-searching key journals) | |
4. Commentaries, discussion or working papers, policy documents, editorials, opinions and letters, conference proceedings, quantitative research that does not meet the inclusion criteria | |
3. Full text available | |
4. Describe an equity-focused implementation science TMF, i.e. equity (or related terms like disparity or inequality) is explicitly mentioned or equity (or parity/equality) is an explicit aim of the TMF, with or without operationalisation in intervention implementation | |
5. Studies describing TMFs from fields other than implementation science, e.g. health equity frameworks | |
6. Studies describing interventions targeting non-ethnicity-related health inequities | |
5. Describe the use of an established implementation science TMF to implement an intervention in an Indigenous or other minoritised ethnic/’racial’ group | 7. Studies in non-healthcare settings (e.g. schools, churches) without health provider involvement |
8. Interventions that do not address a particular health need | |
9. Study protocols that lacked sufficient detail about the TMF | |
6. Interventions conducted in healthcare settings; this included community-based health interventions if there was health provider involvement |