Table 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

DomainInclusion criteriaExclusion criteria
General criteria
  • Publication date: January 2000–September 2021

  • Any scholarly (peer-reviewed) empirical study design — for example, randomised controlled trials, quantitative surveys, and qualitative interviews

  • Human research

  • Publication date: pre-2000

  • Non-empirical articles — for example, commentaries and opinion articles

Population
  • Involve a GP/family doctor and a population described as ‘priority’ — for example, indigenous, low-income, and culturally and linguistically diverse

  • No clear description of clinician involved

  • Generalist physician practising in a hospital setting

  • Involving health professionals but no GP

  • No clear description of priority patient population

Interventiona
  • A tangible, publicly available behaviour change tool or product that is not considered part of usual care

  • Behaviour change theory (for example, social cognitive theory), rather than a tool

  • Behaviour change approach (for example, counselling) rather than a tool

  • Screening tools without any behaviour change components

Setting
  • Primary health care

  • General practice

  • Family medicine

  • Aboriginal medical services

  • Acute care

  • Hospitals

Target behaviour
  • Health-related behaviours (for example, diet, smoking, and physical activity) and/or family doctor practices

  • Healthcare screening behaviours (for example, cancer screening)

  • Utilisation of healthcare services

  • Not informing a change in behaviour

Outcomes
  • Must evaluate effectiveness (such as rates of smoking cessation and patient weight loss) and/or feasibility/acceptability, such as perceived usefulness of the tool, perceived relevance, and impact on practice

  • No evaluation and clear description of tool effectiveness and/or feasibility/acceptability

  • a Although the review was not restricted to intervention studies, all included studies were required to report on use of a tool by family doctors.