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Erschienen in: BMC Public Health 1/2015

Open Access 01.12.2015 | Research article

Implementation conditions for diet and physical activity interventions and policies: an umbrella review

verfasst von: Karolina Horodyska, Aleksandra Luszczynska, Catherine B. Hayes, Miriam P. O’Shea, Lars J. Langøien, Gun Roos, Matthijs van den Berg, Marieke Hendriksen, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Johannes Brug

Erschienen in: BMC Public Health | Ausgabe 1/2015

Abstract

Background

This umbrella review aimed at identifying evidence-based conditions important for successful implementation of interventions and policies promoting a healthy diet, physical activity (PA), and a reduction in sedentary behaviors (SB). In particular, we examined if the implementation conditions identified were intervention-specific or policy-specific. This study was undertaken as part of the DEterminants of DIet and Physical Activity (DEDIPAC) Knowledge Hub, a joint action as part of the European Joint Programming Initiative a Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life.

Methods

A systematic review of reviews and stakeholder documents was conducted. Data from nine scientific literature databases were analyzed (95 documents met the inclusion criteria). Additionally, published documentation of eight major stakeholders (e.g., World Health Organization) were systematically searched (17 documents met the inclusion criteria). The RE-AIM framework was used to categorize elicited conditions. Across the implementation conditions 25 % were identified in at least four documents and were subsequently classified as having obtained sufficient support.

Results

We identified 312 potential conditions relevant for successful implementation; 83 of these received sufficient support. Using the RE-AIM framework eight implementation conditions that obtained support referred to the reach in the target population; five addressed efficacy of implementation processes; 24 concerned adoption by the target staff, setting, or institutions; 43 referred to consistency, costs, and adaptations made in the implementation process; three addressed maintenance of effects over time. The vast majority of implementation conditions (87.9 %; 73 of 83) were supported by documents referring to both interventions and policies. There were seven policy-specific implementation conditions, which focused on increasing complexities of coexisting policies/legal instruments and their consequences for implementation, as well as politicians’ collaboration in implementation.

Conclusions

The use of the proposed list of 83 conditions for successful implementation may enhance the implementation of interventions and policies which pursue identification of the most successful actions aimed at improving diet, PA and reducing SB.
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Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Authors’ contributions

KH contributed to the conception of the study and its design, conducted data search, data extraction, data analysis and synthesis, drafted and revised the manuscript. AL contributed to the conception of the study and its design, conducted data extraction, contributed to data analysis and synthesis, and revised the manuscript. CBH contributed to the conception of the study, its design, conducted data search and data extraction, contributed to data analysis and synthesis, and revised the draft of the manuscript. MOS participated in the conception of the study and its design conducted data search and data extraction, contributed to data analysis and synthesis, and revised the draft of the manuscript. LJL contributed to the conception of the study and its design, conducted data search data extraction, contributed to data analysis and synthesis, and revised the draft of the manuscript. GR participated in the conception of the study and its design and data extraction, contributed to analysis and synthesis, and revised the draft of the manuscript. MvdB participated in the conception of the study and its design, data synthesis, and revised the draft of the manuscript. MH conceived of the study and its design, participated in data synthesis, and revised the draft of the manuscript. IDB contributed to conception of the study and revised the manuscript. HB contributed to conception of the study and revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Abkürzungen
DEDIPAC
The determinants of diet and physical activity knowledge hub
MQC
Methodological quality checklist
MQC-SP
Methodological quality checklist – for stakeholder documents and position papers

Background

Positive changes in diet, physical activity (PA), and sedentary behaviors (SB) may serve the same health-related goals such as maintaining healthy body weight, reducing risk for non-communicable diseases (including cancer, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases) and improving health in general [1]. These behaviors therefore may be jointly addressed in guidelines issued by major health organizations and they may be targeted jointly in interventions and policies [1, 2]. Health promotion efforts are directed at developing interventions and policies that result in significant and sustainable changes in dietary, physical activity (PA), and sedentary behaviors (SB) [3]. Policies and interventions are formed as purposive courses of actions to promote such positive changes in these behaviors [4]. Both policies and interventions may target individuals’ skills or beliefs, address contexts such as social systems, the physical or built environment, or create opportunities for practicing the behavior [5]. Conceptual and definitional distinctions between policies and interventions may be arbitrary. While both are seen as approaches to support initiation and maintenance of health-promoting behavior, sometimes in practice it might be considered that a specific intervention, if implemented at national level, would become recognized as a policy whereas some policies implemented locally would become recognized as interventions. Although several health promotion programs may be difficult to classify unequivocally as either polices or interventions, major health organizations accentuate the fact that policies and interventions may require different good practice guidelines [4]. For the purpose of this study policies are defined as actions formulated in a specific political process, adopted, and enforced by regional, national, or international public agencies, whereas interventions are defined as actions not yet endorsed, enabled or executed by regional, national, or international agencies [4].
In order to improve evidence-based health promotion, researchers and practitioners need to know if the intervention/policy works [6] and if so how it works. The how aspect may refer to the behavior change techniques, active components of interventions/policies, and underlying processes which explain behavior change [7, 8]. Additionally, the ‘how’ aspect may refer to the main operational characteristics of intervention and policies, such as content development (and its management), the use of theory, deciding the target group, target behavior, setting, and practitioners [2, 9]. The if aspect of interventions and policies promoting healthy diet and PA may encompass the facets of monitoring and evaluation, such as selection of outcomes, evaluation of effects, time when effects are observed, and effect size [2, 9]. Those aspects are covered in frameworks guiding the development of behavior change interventions and policies, such as the Behavior Change Wheel [10] and in the reporting guidelines for behavior change interventions and policies, such as WIDER [7].
A third focal point in the process of the development and evaluation of successful interventions and policies concerns the conditions for implementation [2]. Interventions and policies that have been found to be efficacious will only make a true difference if these are implemented in the best possible way, that is with attention to implementation theories or frameworks, evidence-based best practice guidelines. The identification of the critical conditions for implementation, in particular the optimal ways to translate laboratory-based research into real-word settings, is key to developing successful interventions and policies [3]. Leading approaches fostering implementation, such as the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research [11], capture the characteristics of implementation in addition to the how and why aspects (i.e., characteristics of the participants, setting, the content, the effectiveness, and the underlying mechanisms). Therefore, a definition of implementation conditions may be broad and encompass any characteristics which may have even a distant relationship to implementation actions. Our paper however, will use a narrower definition of implementation, proposed by World Health Organization [2]. According to this definition implementation conditions refer to the performance of implementation, program management, and participation processes [2].
There are at least 50 theoretical approaches and frameworks, which explain or enhance implementation of health promotion actions [12]. Tabak and her coauthors (2012) analyzed theories and frameworks in terms of their focus on implementation (in contrast to a focus on dissemination), flexibility of the constructs included in theories or frameworks (broad versus specific/operational), and socio-ecological feasibility (e.g., a potential to consider individual, organizational, and community factors). Among frameworks and theories which address implementation (in contrast to dissemination), and which provide a relatively detailed, step-by-step description of implementation conditions, only three tackle broad socio-ecological levels (i.e., address community, organizational, and individual factors). These are: the Ottawa Model for Research Use [13], the Precede-Proceed Model [14], and the RE-AIM framework [15]. The Ottawa and Precede-Proceed models [13, 14] offer a guide to a process of implementation and formulate a number of consecutive steps. These models are operational in character, as they specify the sequence of actions securing optimal implementation. In contrast, the RE-AIM framework [15, 16] defines five broad domains of implementation conditions. The RE-AIM was designed to enhance the quality and maximize the impact of actions translating research into practice. RE-AIM comprises five domains (1) Reach in the target population, (2) Efficacy, (3) Adoption by the target staff, setting, or institutions, (4) consistency, costs and adaptations made in the Implementation process, and (5) Maintenance of the effects in individuals and settings over time [15]. As the present study aims at eliciting and describing evidence-based implementation conditions, the RE-AIM framework [15] was identified as the most pragmatic due to its descriptive and categorical approach.
Several frameworks and theories only address implementation conditions for policies cf. [12, 17]. Developing separate conceptualizations for policies is guided by an assumption that implementation of policies may have distinct characteristics, compared to implementation of interventions. Some frameworks suggest that the difference may result from the salient role of the political context and a broader social context (encompassing for example economic factors and health services) which inform implementation of policies [17]. Identifying implementation conditions specific for policies may allow for an insight into distinct processes explaining successful policies, compared to processes responsible for a success of interventions. Importantly, the specificity assumptions made by the policy implementation frameworks have not been tested using methods of systematic reviews. To fill this gap, the present study investigates the actual differences in the empirical evidence for the role of implementation conditions for policies and for interventions (promoting healthy diet and physically active lifestyle and reducing sedentary behavior).
The number of research papers on implementation conditions is growing rapidly, with dozens of systematic reviews, position papers, and evidence-based stakeholders’ documents issued every year. These documents often rely on similar search or synthesis strategies but reach different conclusions. As yet, there is no overarching synthesis of the empirical evidence for implementation conditions in interventions and policies addressing dietary behavior, PA and SB.

Aims

As the part of the investigation undertaken by the DEDIPAC project (the DEterminants of DIet and Physical Activity Knowledge Hub, the first Research Action of the European Union’s Joint Programming Initiative on Healthy Diet for Healthy Life) [18], the present study aimed to (1) identify conditions for successful implementation of interventions promoting healthy diet, PA and a reduction of SB and (2) to identify conditions for successful implementation of policies promoting healthy diet, PA, and a reduction of SB.
We investigated the implementation conditions in policies and interventions targeting the general population, children, adults, older adults and vulnerable populations. Applying the RE-AIM framework [15], we sought for evidence-based conditions of implementation which may refer to the domains of (1) reach, (2) efficacy (3) adoption (4) consistency, cost and adaptations in implementation, and (5) maintenance.

Methods

Materials and general procedures

To achieve the aims, we performed an umbrella review - i.e. a review of review documents - integrating evidence obtained from existing systematic reviews, position review papers, and stakeholders’ documents. Umbrella reviews represent a way of synthesizing the evidence accumulated in systematic reviews cf. [19]. A majority of umbrella reviews focus on analyzing materials obtained from systematic reviews cf. [20] however, the aim of this study required integrating the evidence presented in reviews with practice recommendations issued by major stakeholders cf. [9]. The questions and methods of this umbrella review were developed and approved using the rapid review approach [21]. Adherence to PRISMA guidelines [22] and the respective checklist is reported in Additional file 1. The study and its protocol were not registered. Protocols are available from the first and second author upon request.
Three types of documents were retrieved and analyzed in order to elicit the implementation conditions: (1) systematic reviews analyzing original research on implementation conditions for policies/interventions, (2) position papers that offered a comprehensive (but not systematic) review of research evidence on implementation conditions, and (3) documents issued by major national and international stakeholders providing evidence-based recommendations referring to implementation conditions. We investigated documents aimed at eliciting empirical evidence and evidence-based recommendations for policies and interventions targeting healthy diet, PA, or SB.

Peer-reviewed documents: search strategy, inclusion, and exclusion criteria

The search was conducted in Medline, Embase, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, PsycINFO, PsychArticles, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, Academic Premier, Social Citation Index, and Scopus. Documents published between the inception of databases and August 2014 were included. Combinations of 4 groups of keywords were applied, referring to: (1) implementation conditions (implement* or disseminat* or translat* or “factors for” or transfer* or “external validity” or “recommendation* for practice”), (2) the type of action (intervention or polic* or “prevention program*”), (3) the design (“systematic review” or review or “meta-analys*”), and (4) the outcomes (“physical activity” or active or exercise or sedentary or diet or nutrition or fat or snack or fruit or vegetable or fiber or fibre or soda or meal or food or “energy intake” or calorie* or obes*). Two research teams conducted separate searches for (1) policy conditions [LJL and GR] and (2) intervention conditions [KH and AL]. At least two researchers were involved at all stages of data selection, data evaluation, and coding.
The stages of the data selection process are presented in Fig. 1, following the PRISMA template for reporting the results of systematic reviews [22]. The preliminary search yielded 1237 entries for policies and 586 entries for interventions (including papers which addressed both policies and interventions), which accounted for a combination of keywords in either title, abstract or keywords. Identified abstracts were then screened by two researchers (LJL and GR or KH and AL). We used manual searches of the reference lists to identify additional documents (n = 97).
The following documents were excluded: (a) dissertations, protocols, conference materials, and book chapters; (b) reviews which indicated a need for testing implementation conditions, but did not investigate implementation in the results sections; (c) publications addressing multi-behavior policies or interventions, which did not allow to identify whether specific implementation conditions were observed in policies/interventions aiming at either dietary behaviors or PA or SB; (d) documents that reviewed guidelines for diet, PA, or SB, but did not indicate implementation conditions; (e) publications which discussed only one example of policy or intervention; (f) reviews which analyzed theoretical approaches or frameworks rather than empirical evidence; (g) and reviews which analyzed qualitative studies only.
We included the documents reviewing empirical evidence for policies and interventions targeting healthy diet, PA, or SB. Only documents published in peer-reviewed English-language journals were included. In the case of systematic reviews we included reviews of quantitative studies using the following criteria for systematic reviews: clearly defined study aims, search strategy, inclusion and exclusion criteria, design of original studies, and a suitable synthesis given the heterogeneity of findings, cf. [23]. In case of non-systematic position reviews, papers focusing on reviewing evidence-based conditions for implementation were included. If several papers were published by the same authors on the same original studies, we included the most recent document, and sought for other (distinct) implementation conditions in earlier documents.
To account for the risk of bias in individual documents, quality assessment of each systematic review was conducted using the Methodological Quality Checklist (MQC) [24]. This is a 7-item scale with total scores ranging from 0 to 7. MQC evaluates strategies applied in original reviews and allocates a score of 1 to each of the following seven items: (1) well-defined study participants, intervention/policy, and outcomes; (2) several databases are searched; strategies for reference checking are used; (3) transparent inclusion and exclusion criteria; (4) the number and designs of original studies are clarified; (5) a quality assessment of original studies is included; (6) methods of data synthesis are specified and data heterogeneity is accounted for; and (7) at least two researchers are involved at each stage of review process. Previous umbrella reviews using MQC applied the cutoff of 4 as representing moderate or high quality [9, 20] and used the cutoff of 4 in MQC as the inclusion criterion threshold. Therefore only systematic reviews scoring ≥ 4, were included into the final analyses.
Additionally, to account for the risk of bias in individual documents prepared by stakeholders, the Methodological Quality Checklist for Stakeholder Documents and Position Papers, (MQC-SP; [9]) was used to evaluate the quality of peer-reviewed position papers. This scale tackles six quality criteria (major stakeholder involved, well-defined aim, robust methodology, quality evaluation of analyzed material, appropriate synthesis of analyzed material, more than one stakeholder or coauthors involved). The total scores range from 0 to 6. Only papers scoring ≥ 3, representing moderate or high quality, were included in the analyses.
Two researchers (LJL and GR or KH and AL) independently rated the quality of all documents. For both types of analyzed documents (systematic reviews, evidence-based position papers) the concordance of quality evaluations was high, with kappa (κ) coefficients of .91 to 1.00 (p < .001).

Stakeholders’ documents (other than peer-reviewed): search strategy, inclusion criteria, exclusion criteria, and quality evaluation

To obtain major stakeholders’ documents aiming at eliciting implementation conditions, a group of eight experts used the consensus method [23]. The criteria for selecting the stakeholder documents were: (1) documents issued in the English language and available for download; (2) documents that provided evidence-based good practice recommendations for policies and interventions which addressed diet, PA or SB targeting any population, as the main outcome of the interventions/policies. Similar inclusion criteria were used in previous reviews of stakeholder documents [9, 25]. Publicly available document databases of the following stakeholders were reviewed: European Commission (EC), National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE; United Kingdom), World Health Organization (WHO Global), Regional Office for Europe (WHO European Region), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC; USA), Institute of Medicine (IOM; USA), Australian Department of Health (ADH), and National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC; Australia).
A similar search strategy to that used for the database search was attempted in all of the stakeholder websites. However, due to the limited capacity of the search engines within the stakeholder websites a generic search engine (Google) was used in an attempt to elicit additional potentially relevant documents. All websites of respective stakeholders were searched using the same keywords as in the peer-reviewed documents reviews described above, accompanied by the names of the stakeholder organizations (or their acronyms). The initial search resulted in 4118 potentially relevant documents (Fig. 1).
The potentially relevant documents were then screened by two researchers (MOS and CBH). We included documents which aimed at (1) reviewing conditions relating to implementation or (2) providing an overview of implementation conditions, or (3) formulating implementation recommendations in interventions or policies promoting healthy diet, PA, or a reduction of SB. Only documents developed and officially endorsed by a respective stakeholder were included. Documents were excluded if they presented preselected examples of implementation conditions (e.g., one condition only), instead of providing an overview of such conditions. Documents aiming at interventions or policies focusing on other main outcomes than healthy diet, PA or a reduction of SB (e.g. cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease) were also excluded.
Finally, the quality of the documents was evaluated, using MQC-SP [9]. Two researchers (MOS and CBH) independently rated all stakeholders’ documents. Papers scoring ≥ 3, i.e. moderate to high quality, were included into the further analyses. The concordance of the quality evaluation was very high, with κ = 1.00, p < .001.
Overall, 17 stakeholder documents met all inclusion criteria and were further analyzed.

Data extraction, coding, and synthesis

To ensure accuracy and consistency of data extraction and coding at least two researchers extracted and coded data independently. Any disagreements in the processes of data selection and abstraction were resolved by the consensus method (searching for possible rating errors, followed by a discussion and arbitration by a third researcher) [23].
Descriptive data (see Additional file 1) was extracted by one or two researchers (KH, LJL, or MOS) and then verified by another researcher (AL, GR, CBH or KH). Extracted data included: (1) the descriptive characteristics of the original studies (e.g., participants, target behavior) synthesized in the analyzed documents; (2) data necessary to evaluate the quality of the studies.
The potential implementation conditions for interventions and policies were extracted from each document. In particular, we retrieved the names of implementation conditions (as documented by authors of original documents) and their operationalization or definition. In the case of systematic reviews, only implementation conditions which were incorporated in the original analysis and supported by empirical evidence obtained in original trials were included. In the case of position papers, only conditions which were illustrated with empirical evidence were extracted. For both systematic reviews and position papers, if the implementation conditions were mentioned solely among the guidelines for future research or supported by theoretical frameworks only, they were not included. In case of stakeholders’ documents we retrieved implementation conditions which were operationalized and indicated as crucial for the implementation process.
As the focus of the present study was to analyze implementation conditions as narrowly defined by WHO [2], we excluded the conditions which addressed the main characteristics of interventions and policies (e.g., the content of the intervention/policy, the theory used in its development, characteristics of participants and target behaviors, general characteristics of practitioner and setting; cf. [9]. We also excluded characteristics referring to evaluation/monitoring of the effects of the interventions/policies (e.g., costs and funding for intervention/policy development, outcomes’ selection, evaluation of the influence on behavior, effect size, the evaluation of generalizability of the effects, active components and underlying processes; cf. [9]. Any of these characteristics may have an indirect effect on implementation processes or may be related to implementation conditions (e.g., an intervention which has only short-term effects on behavior may be related to participants’ evaluation of the intervention as less feasible; the costs of developing the policy may affects costs of its implementation). In contrast, we sought characteristics of interventions and policies which constitute the core conditions for implementation (e.g., the evaluation of the intervention as feasible; the cost of the process of implementation of the intervention/policy).
The implementation conditions that had an equivalent operationalization but different original names were considered to represent the same construct (e.g., attrition across the program conditions; attrition across the sub-types of the program). The findings are presented using definitions as presented by the authors of the original documents (see Additional file 1). Interventions and policies aimed at any type of PA (general levels of PA or its specific types, such as climbing stairs) were coded as referring to PA. Only five documents addressed SB. As it was considered that conditions for implementation of interventions/policies to address PA and SB may be comparable, PA and SB were combined into a single category. Interventions/policies targeting narrowly defined dietary behaviors (e.g., a change in fat intake) as well as addressing more complex dietary changes (e.g., total calorie intake) were coded as referring to dietary behavior.
In next step extracted implementation conditions were allocated into the five domains proposed in RE-AIM [15]. They were considered as representing (1) Reach, (2) Efficacy (3) Adoption (4) consistency, cost and adaptations in Implementation, or (5) Maintenance. For example 29 potential implementation conditions were identified for the Reach domain. The allocation was conducted by two researchers (KH and AL, or LJL and GR, or MOS and CBH).
Afterwards, conditions within each RE-AIM domain were combined into broader thematic categories. Implementation conditions allocated to these broader thematic categories shared at least one crucial aspect of implementation processes. For example all conditions related to recruitment process were combined into one category - ‘Strategies facilitating recruitment processes’; all conditions related to participation processes were grouped into one broader category - ‘Issues in participation processes and their effects on implementation’. Two researchers (KH, AL) independently clustered all identified implementation conditions into these broader categories identified within each RE-AIM domain. The names of broader categories and their contents were then independently evaluated by six researchers (MOS, CBH, LJL, GR, MH, and MvdB) who searched for flaws in categorization and evaluated the meaningfulness of broader categories.
Finally, the implementation condition was categorized as an implementation condition which received sufficient support if the respective condition was indicated in at least four documents (including systematic reviews, position review papers or stakeholders’ documents). Similar principal summary measures were used in previous umbrella reviews [9]. This threshold is based on the number of documents supporting each implementation condition and it represents the top quartile in the number of the supporting documents. Across implementation conditions, 75 % were supported by 1–3 documents, whereas 25 % were supported by at least four documents (Additional file 1). This arbitrary inclusion threshold was obtained in a consensus meeting, represented by the research groups from four countries involved in the DEDIPAC project. The impact on implementation conditions of increasing and decreasing this threshold was discussed. Similar summary measures, based on the upper quartile-based thresholds are used in health promotion research eliciting good practice characteristics [9, 25].

Results

Description of analyzed material

A total of 112 documents were included. The final selection consisted of 50 (44.6 %) systematic reviews, 17 (15.2 %) stakeholders’ documents, and 45 (40.2 %) position review papers (Additional file 1).
Systematic reviews investigated a total of 2094 original studies (see Additional file 1). The documents provided recommendations which could be applied to both policies and interventions (k = 37, 33 %), addressed interventions only (k = 43, 38.4 %), or focused on policies only (k = 32, 28.6 %). Regarding behaviors, 54 documents (48.2 %) referred to both PA and dietary behaviors, whereas 38 (33.9 %) focused on PA/SB only, and 20 (17.9 %) analyzed dietary behaviors only. Populations analyzed in original papers included: general population samples (k = 43, 38.3 %), children (k = 21, 18.8 %), children and adolescents (k = 15, 13.4 %), vulnerable populations, such as ethnic minorities or groups with low socio-economic status (k = 8, 7.1 %), adults with a chronic disease, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer (k = 7, 6.3 %), adults (k = 6, 5.4 %), older adults (k = 7, 6.3 %), and adults at a workplace (k = 5, 4.4 %).
Based on the inclusion criteria, the quality of papers included in the analysis ranged from moderate to good (see Additional file 1). For systematic reviews, MQC scores ranged from 4 to 7 (M = 5.24, SD = 1.06). For position paper reviews and stakeholders’ documents MQC-SP scores ranged from 3 to 6 (M = 4.15, SD = 1.02).

Implementation conditions

Overall, we identified 312 potential implementation conditions (see Additional file 1). The implementation conditions were supported by between 1 and 37 documents (M = 3.04, SD = 3.63. Among these, 83 (26.6 % of 312) implementation conditions received sufficient support (i.e., were indicated by at least four analyzed documents). The 229 remaining characteristics (see Additional file 1) fell below the threshold. Therefore they were not included into the final list of implementation conditions.
Table 1 yields the evidence supporting these 83 implementation conditions. Across the implementation conditions which received sufficient support, the vast majority (n = 73, 87.9 %) were generic i.e. the evidence for them was found in documents addressing interventions and policies. Only seven (8.4 %) implementation conditions were specific for policies and only three (3.6 %) were specific for interventions only.
Table 1
Implementation conditions for policies and interventions aiming at dietary behavior, physical activity, and sedentary behavior change: a synthesis of evidence
RE-AIM domain
Systematic reviews, stakeholders’ documents, and position reviews endorsing respective characteristics
Characteristics category
   
Implementation characteristics
Policies only
Interventions only
Policies and interventions
Domain: Reach
   
 (a) Strategies facilitating recruitment processes
   
  Resources/strategies for implementers helping them to invite and follow-up participants
 
Systematic reviews [5].
Systematic reviews [26, 27]; Position reviews [28].
  Awareness raising (strategies to raise awareness of dietary behavior, physical activity, sedentary behaviors, as well as interventions and policies) to help implementers to invite participants
Systematic reviews [29]; Stakeholders’ documents [30, 31]; Position reviews [3236].
Systematic reviews [37]; Position reviews [38].
Systematic reviews [39]; Stakeholders’ documents [40]; Position reviews [41].
  Incentives to participate
 
Systematic reviews [4244].
Position reviews [28].
 (b) Issues in participation processes and their effects on implementation
  General attrition ratesa
 
Systematic reviews [42, 43, 4550]; Position reviews [51, 52].
Systematic reviews [53, 54]; Position reviews [55, 56].
  Participation levels, i.e., percent of those agreeing among eligible participantsa
  
Systematic reviews [53, 54, 57, 58]; Position reviews [59].
  Representativeness of attrition and dropouta
 
Systematic reviews [43, 4749].
Systematic reviews [53, 60]; Position reviews [56].
  Differential attrition across the program conditions/typesa
 
Systematic reviews [43, 48].
Systematic reviews [53, 60].
 (c) Cultural and social issues in reaching target populations
  Enhancing cultural competences of intervention/policy (creating culturally sensitive versions of materials)
Systematic reviews [61]; Stakeholders’ documents [6266].
Systematic reviews [67].
Systematic reviews [26, 68]; Stakeholders’ documents [69]; Position reviews [70].
Domain: Efficacy
 
 (d) Satisfaction with implementation
 
  Participants’ satisfaction with implementationa
 
Systematic reviews [42, 44].
Systematic reviews [54, 71].
 (e) Feasibility and acceptability
 
  Feasibility of implementation and acceptability of implementation among providers, stakeholders, and participantsa
 
Systematic reviews [48, 72, 73].
Systematic reviews [57, 7476]; Position reviews [55, 56, 59, 77].
  Acceptability of the program among participants (e.g., acceptability of: the group size, the type of participants, interventionists’ skills)a
Systematic reviews [78]; Position reviews [33].
Systematic reviews [79]; Position reviews [38, 80].
Systematic reviews [57, 71].
 (f) Evaluation of implementation/adoption processes (excluding evaluation of the outcomes of the program)
  Evaluation and monitoring results are disseminated to communities, stakeholders, and nationally
Stakeholders’ documents [31, 65, 66, 81].
 
Stakeholders’ documents [69].
  Difficulty/a lack of opportunity to assess the impact of one policy separately from ancillary policies/interventions due to the increasing complexity of policies/legislationsa
Systematic reviews [29, 61]; Position reviews [82, 83].
  
Domain: Adoption
 
 (g) Training for implementation
 
  Training for implementers and disseminators (e.g., training, certifıcates, workshops, training instructions, skill development)
Stakeholders’ documents [30, 31, 64, 84]; Position reviews [35, 85].
Systematic reviews [5, 37, 42, 43, 48, 67, 72, 79, 8690]; Position reviews: [51, 80, 91, 92]; Stakeholders’ documents [93].
Systematic reviews [26, 27, 54, 57, 71, 76, 94]; Position reviews [28, 56, 70, 95, 96]; Stakeholders’ documents [97].
  Training instructions/materials for implementers
Position reviews [35].
Systematic reviews [42]; Position reviews [80, 92].
Systematic reviews [54, 76]
  Regular meetings or supervision for staff to secure implementation
 
Systematic reviews [42, 90]; Position reviews [51, 92].
Position reviews [28].
 (h) Staff expertise for implementation
  No additional expertise required for staff involved in implementation
 
Systematic reviews [43]; Position reviews [98].
Systematic reviews [60]; Position reviews [55].
  Implementers’ skill, knowledge, and competence to implement the program correctly
Position reviews [35].
Systematic reviews [44, 89, 99, 100].
Systematic reviews [26, 27]; Stakeholders’ documents [97]; Position reviews [56].
 (i) Collaboration and communication for implementation
  Collaboration between implementers; the use of methods to increase communication between implementers
Stakeholders’ documents [31, 62, 66].
Systematic reviews [44]; Stakeholders’ documents [93].
Systematic reviews [26, 27]; Position reviews [28, 96, 101].
  Key political and stakeholders’ support for implementation (stakeholders identified and involved)
Stakeholders’ documents [62, 84, 102]; Position reviews [85, 103, 104].
 
Systematic reviews [26, 105]; Position reviews [96].
  Cross-sectorial collaboration: collaboration between sectors of health, sports, food, transportation, planning and housing, green spaces, education, healthcare, and social services
Stakeholders’ documents [63, 64, 81, 84, 102]; Position reviews [34, 104, 106110].
Position reviews [91].
Stakeholders’ documents [40, 69, 97]; Position reviews [41, 70, 95].
  Involvement of multiple stakeholders at multiple levels
Stakeholders’ documents [31, 64, 84, 102]; Position reviews [35, 107].
 
Stakeholders’ documents [97].
  Collaboration with professionals and organizations for program implementation
 
Systematic reviews [5, 100]
Systematic reviews [111]; Position reviews [41, 112].
  Effective leadership to secure collaboration (between facilitators, institutions, and organizations involved)
Stakeholders’ documents [30, 31, 62, 64, 65, 81, 84, 102].
Systematic reviews [44, 88].
Stakeholders’ documents [97].
  Synergy with other existing or operating programs
Position reviews [34, 104, 108110, 113].
Position reviews [114].
Position reviews [41].
  Securing food industry involvement/preventing and counteracting food industry resistance
Stakeholders’ documents [64]; Position reviews [35, 36, 109, 113, 115]
  
 (j) Community support for implementation
 
  Securing the involvement of local community in implementation
Systematic reviews [29]; Stakeholders’ documents [31, 84, 102, 116]; Position reviews [33, 107].
 
Systematic reviews [54, 71]; Stakeholders’ documents [40].
  Community organizations support adoption
Stakeholders’ documents [31, 102, 116].
Systematic reviews [42, 86].
Stakeholders’ documents [40, 69]; Position reviews [28, 101].
  Building relationships/networks for implementation (between implementing organizations and community organizations)
Stakeholders’ documents [31]; Position reviews [117].
Systematic reviews [100].
Systematic reviews [26].
 (k) Adoption in physical environment facilitating implementation
  Maintenance or development of built and natural environment to enable policies implementation
Stakeholders’ documents [30, 62, 63, 81, 116]; Position reviews [83, 107, 110].
Systematic reviews [67].
Systematic reviews [39, 105]; Stakeholders’ documents [97].
  Supportive physical environment in the community promotes implementation and adoption
Stakeholders’ documents [30, 63, 116]; Position reviews [34].
Systematic reviews [72].
Stakeholders’ documents [40].
 (l) Governmental and legislative involvement
  Federal (national) government co-issues the program or is involved in program issuing
Systematic reviews [29]; Stakeholders’ documents [84, 102, 116]; Position reviews [107, 109, 115, 117].
 
Position reviews [41].
  Legal basis/secured legal support for implementation and maintenance (e.g., fiscal, liability instruments, market environment laws)
Stakeholders’ documents [65, 84]; Position reviews [32, 106].
  
  Accounting for legal instruments to support implementation (existing legal instruments supporting implementation, changes in law, and legal burden for businesses)
Position reviews [32, 33, 104, 108].
  
  Politicians’ collaboration (negotiation with and influencing politicians and policy makers)
Position reviews [83, 108, 109, 117].
  
  Involvement of a local government and accounting for regional regulations
Stakeholders’ documents [63, 102]; Position reviews [33, 34, 109].
 
Stakeholders’ documents [40]; Position reviews [118].
  Accounting for conflicting policies in adoption processa
Position reviews [35, 110, 115, 119].
  
Domain: consistency, cost, and adaptations in Implementation
 (m) Simplicity as a factor facilitating implementation
  Simplicity of communicating and implementing the program (not too complex, not too difficult to follow)
Stakeholders’ documents [66].
Systematic reviews [44, 50, 88]; Position reviews [38, 98, 114].
Systematic reviews [71, 74].
  Complexities of existing policies and their interrelations as barriers to implementationa
Systematic reviews [61]; Position reviews [82, 83, 108].
  
 (n) Accessibility for participants
  Increasing accessibility to environmental structures
Stakeholders’ documents [63, 81]; Position reviews [107]
 
Stakeholders’ documents [40].
  Financially accessible programs (low-cost, high affordability)
Position reviews [33, 35, 107].
Systematic reviews [44].
Stakeholders’ documents [40]; Position reviews [28, 55, 112].
  Barriers for accessibility in physical environment (e.g., architectural solutions as barriers to exercise; a lack of stairs)a
Stakeholders’ documents [63].
Systematic reviews [120], Position reviews [121].
Stakeholders’ documents [40]; Position reviews [70].
 (o) Evaluating and solving time-related issues in implementation
  Lack of time in the community involved in implementationa
Position reviews [33].
Systematic reviews [122]; Position reviews [123].
Stakeholders’ documents [69].
  Time for implementation: assessment of time needed for implementation conducted and adequate time secured
Stakeholders’ documents [62]; Position reviews [33].
Systematic reviews [44].
Stakeholders’ documents [69].
  Limited time in curriculum to add new program in respective settings (e.g., schools)
Position reviews [115].
Systematic reviews [122]; Position reviews [123].
Position reviews [70].
 (p) Fidelity
  Fidelity of the program (in reference to the content and the dose of the program)
Stakeholders’ documents [64].
Systematic reviews [44, 72, 79, 87, 88]; Stakeholders’ documents [124].
Position reviews [56].
  Degree to which intervention is delivered as intended (compared to the protocol)
 
Systematic reviews [42, 46, 125]; Position reviews: [98].
 
  Assessment of fidelity of deliverya
 
Systematic reviews [42, 46, 48, 87].
 
 (q) Use of implementation theory/framework
 
  Use of implementation theory for implementation practice
 
Systematic reviews [86, 126]; Position reviews [80].
Systematic reviews [39, 76].
  Use of RE-AIM framework for identification, appraisal, and synthesis of material
 
Systematic reviews [43, 4547, 79, 125, 127]; Position reviews [51, 52, 98, 128]
Systematic reviews [74]; Position reviews [28].
 (r) Cultural context in implementation
 
  Culture-sensitive implementation, addressing the needs of diverse population in their community context (social, cultural, economic, and political)
Systematic reviews [29]; Stakeholders’ documents [31, 6266]; Position reviews [35, 83, 104].
Systematic reviews [67, 79, 86, 89]; Position reviews [80, 91, 114, 123].
Systematic reviews [26, 71, 94]; Stakeholders’ documents [69, 97]; Position reviews [70, 118].
 (s) Costs and funding of implementation
 
  Costs of implementation analyzed (e.g., analysis of costs to deliver per person)
Position reviews [33].
Systematic reviews [42, 45, 46, 72, 79, 125].
Systematic reviews [54, 71].
  Funding/resources for implementation secured and provided
Systematic reviews [61]; Stakeholders’ documents [62, 65, 84, 102, 116]; Position reviews [103, 107].
Systematic reviews [100]; Position reviews [80].
Systematic reviews [27, 71, 75]; Stakeholders’ documents [69].
  Lack of/limited funding for implementationa
Position reviews [33, 34, 107, 117].
Systematic reviews [88, 120]; Stakeholder documents [93].
Position reviews [41].
  Cost targets: low (feasible) costs of implementation, cheap resources, and affordable across settings
Stakeholders’ documents [64]; Position reviews [85].
Systematic reviews [37, 129].
Systematic reviews [74]; Position reviews [28].
  Securing funds for long-term maintenance (e.g., through national government funds)
Position reviews [33].
Systematic reviews [46, 86].
Stakeholders’ documents [40].
 (t) Other resources needed for delivery
  Lack of resources for implementation in organizations involved in deliverya
Systematic reviews [61]; Position reviews [117].
Systematic reviews [44]; Position reviews [123].
Systematic reviews [71].
  Lack of resources for implementation (from sources other than involved organizations)a
Stakeholders’ documents [62]; Position reviews [34].
Systematic reviews [46, 100].
Position reviews [41].
 (u) Delivery characteristics
 
  Extent to which protocol was delivered as intended/protocol adherence
 
Systematic reviews [45, 47, 99, 125]; Position reviews [52, 128].
Systematic reviews [71].
  Consistency of delivery and evaluation/monitoring of consistency
Position reviews [35].
Systematic reviews [5, 43, 46, 48]; Position reviews [52].
Systematic reviews [60]; Position reviews [101].
  Identifying the essential amount of time/number of sessions required to deliver the program
Position reviews [107].
Systematic reviews [42, 43, 48]; Position reviews [128].
Systematic reviews: [60].
  Mass media involved in delivery and dissemination
Stakeholders’ documents [102]; Position reviews [35, 113, 115].
Stakeholders’ documents [93].
 
  Involving any available staff into the program delivery
 
Systematic reviews [67, 90, 126]; Position reviews [123].
 
  Clear identification of roles and responsibilities in implementation processes
Stakeholders’ documents [62]; Position reviews [34, 103]
Stakeholders’ documents [93]
 
  Delivery through various professional groups, lay health advisors, and users
Position reviews [34, 107, 109].
Systematic reviews [86, 126]. Position reviews [114, 123].
 
  Pilots: testing new and existing materials before delivering to the target population
Position reviews [82].
Systematic reviews [90]; Position reviews [38, 114].
Position reviews [101].
 (v) Settings’ characteristics affecting delivery and implementation
  Organizational practices supporting implementation, management participation in implementation
Stakeholders’ documents [30].
Systematic reviews [44]; Position reviews [114].
Stakeholders’ documents [40, 130].
  Aims and existing polices within the organization are accounted for (how does the program fit into organizational aims and existing policies?)
 
Systematic reviews [44].
Systematic reviews [54]; Stakeholders’ documents [40, 130].
 (w) Adjustments and customizations in implementation
  Deep-structure adaptations (deep cultural and ethnic adaptations to participants, consultations with community advisors on cultural adaptations, consultation with participants)
Stakeholders’ documents [64, 66].
Systematic reviews [42, 89]; Stakeholders’ documents [124]; Position reviews [38].
 
  Customization of the program (to target population and local conditions)
 
Systematic reviews [43, 47]; Stakeholders’ documents [124]; Position reviews [51, 80].
Systematic reviews [53, 60]; Position reviews [28, 56, 70, 101].
  Potential adaptations to enhance the fıt within community contexts
Stakeholders’ documents [64]
Systematic reviews [43, 47, 87]; Stakeholders’ documents [124].
Systematic reviews [53, 60]; Position reviews [70, 101]
  Assessment of adaptations of the intervention/policy made during deliverya
 
Systematic reviews [72].
Systematic reviews [74, 76]; Position reviews [56].
  Adoption to settingsa
 
Systematic reviews [44, 47, 90].
Systematic reviews [53, 54].
 (x) Planning and monitoring of implementation processes
  Plans for implementation
 
Systematic reviews [5]; Position reviews [92].
Systematic reviews [71, 76, 94]; Position reviews [28].
  Plans for monitoring and plans for evaluation (how to increase data availability and of high quality?)
Stakeholders’ documents [62, 65]; Position reviews [32, 107].
Position reviews [92].
 
  Process monitoring and evaluation
Position reviews [35, 83]. Stakeholders’ documents [84].
Systematic reviews [37, 90]; Position reviews [98]; Stakeholders’ documents [93].
Systematic reviews [71]; Stakeholders’ documents [69].
  Monitoring and assessment of adherence to implementation protocol/protocol fidelity
 
Systematic reviews [47, 131].
Stakeholders’ documents [69, 97]. Position reviews [56].
 (y) Implementers’ characteristics affecting implementation
  Implementers’ expectations regarding the program and perceived control of the programa
Position reviews [33, 85].
Systematic reviews [44, 99, 100].
 
  Levels of engagement/involvement and awareness of implementers
Position reviews [106].
Systematic reviews [44, 48, 99].
Stakeholders’ documents [40].
  Support needed (perceived by implementers)a
 
Systematic reviews [44, 47, 88, 100].
Systematic reviews [27, 94]; Position reviews [55].
Domain: Maintenance
 (z) Sustainability
 
  Institutionalization of the content of the program and its implementation (e.g., the integration into existing institutional programs)
 
Systematic reviews [43, 48]; Position reviews [51].
Systematic reviews [57, 60]; Position reviews: [56].
  Strategies to promote long-term participation (maintenance) included
  
Systematic reviews [26, 132]; Position reviews [28, 55].
  Building capacity to secure maintenance (training and support in organization, aiming at promotion of maintenance)
Stakeholders’ documents [31, 62, 102].
 
Stakeholders’ documents [130].
aThe implementation enhancement may refer to: Identification and evaluation of the issues/problems referring to respective implementation conditions, analysis of consequences for implementations, and analysis of possible solutions for better implementation
Regarding the Reach domain of the RE-AIM framework, we identified 29 potential implementation conditions (see Additional file 1), with eight (27.6 %) reaching the threshold for sufficient support. The implementation conditions which met the threshold are listed in Table 1. They were grouped into three distinct categories: strategies facilitating recruitment processes (n = 3), issues in participation processes and their effects on implementation (n = 4), and cultural and social issues in reaching target populations (n = 1). All conditions were generic.
The analysis of original documents yielded 19 potential implementation conditions referring to the Efficacy domain of the RE-AIM framework (Additional file 1). Only five conditions (26.3 %) met the sufficient support threshold (see Table 1). These implementation conditions were grouped into three categories: satisfaction with implementation (n = 1), feasibility and acceptability (n = 2), evaluation of implementation/adoption processes (excluding evaluation of the outcomes of the program) (n = 2). The majority of implementation conditions from this domain (n = 4) were generic, but one condition was specific for policies only. It referred to a difficulty or lack of opportunity to assess the impact of one policy separately from ancillary policies/interventions due to the increasing complexity of policies/legislations.
We identified 94 potential implementation conditions referring to the Adoption domain of the RE-AIM framework (Additional file 1) and 24 (25 %) met the threshold for sufficient support (Table 1). The implementation conditions capturing adoption processes were grouped into six broader categories: training for implementation (n = 3), staff expertise for implementation (n = 2), collaboration and communication for implementation (n = 7), community support for implementation (n = 3), adoption in physical environment facilitating implementation (n = 2), and the governmental and legislative involvement (n = 6). Although the majority (n = 19) of the implementation conditions were generic, five conditions referred to policies only: securing food industry involvement/preventing and counteracting food industry resistance, legal basis/secured legal support for implementation and maintenance (e.g., fiscal, liability instruments, market environment laws), accounting for legal instruments to support implementation (existing legal instruments supporting implementation, changes in law, and legal burden for businesses), politicians’ collaboration (negotiation with and influencing politicians and policy makers), and accounting for conflicting policies in adoption process.
The analysis yielded 149 potential conditions referring to the domain of the RE-AIM framework addressing to the consistency, costs, and adaptations in Implementation (Additional file 1). Among these implementation conditions 43 (28.8 %) met the sufficient support threshold (Table 1). They were grouped into 13 categories: simplicity as a factor facilitating implementation (n = 2), accessibility for participants (n = 3), evaluating and solving time-related issues in implementation (n = 3), fidelity (n = 3), the use of implementation theory/framework (n = 2), cultural contexts in implementation (n = 1), cost and funding of implementation (n = 5), other resources needed for delivery (n = 2), delivery characteristics (n = 8), settings’ characteristics affecting delivery and implementation (n = 2), adjustments and customizations in implementation (n = 5), planning and monitoring of implementation processes (n = 4), and implementers’ characteristics affecting implementation (n = 3). Although the majority of implementation conditions were generic (n = 39), one was specific for policies: complexities of existing policies and their interrelations as barriers to implementation and three conditions were specific for interventions: the degree to which an intervention is delivered as intended (compared to the protocol), assessment of fidelity of delivery, and involving any available staff into the program delivery.
Finally, we elicited 21 potential conditions referring to the Maintenance domain of the RE-AIM framework (Additional file 1). Only three (14.3 %) of these implementation conditions were supported by at least four documents and therefore considered as obtaining sufficient support (Table 1). The three conditions were organized into one category, referring to sustainability. The implementation conditions representing maintenance domain were generic i.e., they referred to both interventions and policies.
In summary, data synthesis yielded 83 implementation conditions, which may be allocated to the domains of the RE-AIM framework. The list of implementation conditions was combined into a checklist (Table 2), which may be used for developing practice and reporting research on interventions and policies.
Table 2
The checklist of implementation conditions for interventions and policies aiming at nutrition behavior, sedentary behavior, and physical activity change
No.
Implementation domain
Page no. (in a report or protocol of evaluated intervention/policy)
Implementation condition
 
Implementation domain: Reach
 
1a
 Resources/strategies for implementers helping them to invite and follow-up participants
 
2a
 Awareness raising (strategies to raise awareness of dietary behavior, physical activity, sedentary behaviors, as well as interventions and policies) to help implementers to invite participants
 
3a
 Incentives to participate
 
4b
 General attrition ratesa
 
5b
 Participation levels, i.e., percent of those agreeing among eligible participantsa
 
6b
 Representativeness of attrition and dropouta
 
7b
 Differential attrition across the program conditions/typesa
 
8c
 Enhancing cultural competences of intervention/policy (creating culturally sensitive versions of materials)
 
 
Implementation domain: Efficacy
 
9d
 Participants’ satisfaction with implementationa
 
10e
 Feasibility of implementation and acceptability of implementation among providers, stakeholders, and participantsa
 
11e
 Acceptability of the program among participants (e.g., acceptability of the group size, the type of participants, interventionists’ skills)a
 
12f
 Evaluation and monitoring results are disseminated to communities, stakeholders, and nationally
 
13f
 Difficulty/a lack of opportunity to assess the impact of one policy separately from ancillary policies/interventions due to the increasing complexity of policies/legislationsc,a
 
 
Implementation domain: Adoption
 
14g
 Training for implementers and disseminators (e.g. training, certifıcates, workshops, training instructions)
 
15g
 Training instructions/materials for implementers
 
16g
 Regular meetings or supervision for staff to secure implementation
 
17h
 No additional expertise required for staff involved in implementation
 
18h
 Implementers’ skill, knowledge, and competence to implement the program correctly
 
19i
 Collaboration between implementers; the use of methods to increase communication between implementers
 
20i
 Key political and stakeholders’ support for implementation (stakeholders identified and involved)
 
21i
 Cross-sectorial collaboration: collaboration between sectors of health, sports, food, transportation, planning and housing, green spaces, education, healthcare, and social services
 
22i
 Involvement of multiple stakeholders at multiple levels
 
23i
 Collaboration with professionals and organizations for program implementation
 
24i
 Effective leadership to secure collaboration (between facilitators, institutions, and organizations involved)
 
25i
 Synergy with other existing or operating programs
 
26i
 Securing food industry involvement/preventing and counteracting food industry resistancec
 
27j
 Securing the involvement of local community in implementation
 
28j
 Community organizations support adoption
 
29j
 Building relationships/networks for implementation (between implementing organizations and community organizations)
 
30k
 Maintenance or development of built and natural environment to enable policies implementation
 
31k
 Supportive physical environment in the community promotes implementation and adoption
 
32l
 Federal (national) government co-issues the program or is involved in program issuing
 
33l
 Legal basis/secured legal support for implementation and maintenance (e.g. fiscal, liability instruments, market environment laws)c
 
34l
 Accounting for legal instruments to support implementation (existing legal instruments supporting implementation, changes in law, and legal burden for businesses)c
 
35l
 Politicians’ collaboration (negotiation with and influencing politicians and policy makers)c
 
36l
 Involvement of a local government and accounting for regional regulations
 
37l
 Accounting for conflicting policies in adoption processc,a
 
 
Implementation domain: Consistency, cost, and adaptations in implementation
 
38m
 Simplicity of communicating the program (not too complex, not too difficult to follow)
 
39m
 Complexities of existing policies and their interrelations as barriers to implementationc,a
 
40n
 Increasing accessibility to environmental structures
 
41n
 Financially accessible programs (low-cost, high affordability)
 
42n
 Barriers for accessibility in physical environment (e.g., architectural solutions as barriers to exercise; a lack of stairs)a
 
43o
 Lack of time in the community involved in implementationa
 
44o
 Time for implementation: assessment of time needed for implementation conducted and adequate time secured
 
45o
 Limited time in curriculum to add new program in respective setting (e.g., schools)
 
46p
 Fidelity of the program (in reference to the content and the dose of the program)
 
47p
 Degree to which intervention is delivered as intended (compared to the protocol)b
 
48p
 Assessment of fidelity of deliveryb,a
 
49q
 Use of implementation theory for implementation practice
 
50q
 Use of RE-AIM framework for identification, appraisal, and synthesis of material
 
51r
 Culture-sensitive implementation, addressing the needs of diverse population in their community context (social, cultural, economic, and political)
 
52s
 Costs of implementation analyzed (e.g., analysis of costs to deliver per person)
 
53s
 Funding/resources for implementation secured and provided
 
54s
 Lack of/limited funding for implementationa
 
55s
 Cost targets: low (feasible) costs of implementation, cheap resources, and affordable across settings
 
56s
 Securing funds for long-term maintenance (e.g., through national government funds)
 
57t
 Lack of resources for implementation in organizations involved in deliverya
 
58t
 Lack of resources for implementation (from sources other than organizations involved)a
 
59u
 Extent to which protocol was delivered as intended/protocol adherence
 
60u
 Consistency of delivery and evaluation/monitoring of consistency
 
61u
 Identifying the essential amount of time/number of sessions required to deliver the program
 
62u
 Mass media involved in delivery and dissemination
 
63u
 Involving any available staff into the program deliveryb
 
64u
 Clear identification of roles and responsibilities in implementation processes
 
65u
 Delivery through various professional groups, lay health advisors, and users
 
66u
 Pilots: testing new and existing materials before delivering to the target population
 
67v
 Organizational practices supporting implementation, management participation in implementation
 
68v
 Aims and existing polices within the organization are accounted for (does the program fit into organizational aims and existing policies?)
 
69w
 Deep-structure adaptations (e.g., deep cultural and ethnic adaptations to participants, consultations with community advisors on cultural adaptations, consultation with participants)
 
70w
 Customization of the program (to target population and local conditions)
 
71w
 Potential adaptations to enhance the fıt within community contexts
 
72w
 Assessment of adaptations of the intervention/policy made during deliverya
 
73w
 Adoption to settingsa
 
74w
 Plans for implementation
 
75w
 Plans for monitoring and plans for evaluation (how to increase data availability and of high quality?)
 
76w
 Process monitoring and evaluation
 
77w
 Monitoring and assessment of adherence to implementation protocol/protocol fidelity
 
78x
 Implementers’ expectations regarding the program and perceived control of the programa
 
79x
 Levels of engagement/involvement and awareness of implementers
 
80x
 Support needed (perceived by implementers)a
 
 
Implementation domain: Maintenance
 
81z
 Institutionalization of the program content and its implementation (e.g., the integration into existing institutional programs)
 
82z
 Strategies to promote long-term participation (maintenance) included
 
83z
 Building capacity to secure maintenance (training and support in organization, aiming at promotion of maintenance)
 
‘a’ to ‘z’ represent 25 implementation categories (for categories see Table 1); Page no.- if the list is used for reporting on or evaluating interventions/policies, please indicate the page in the original report/protocol where the characteristic is addressed
aThe implementation enhancement may refer to: Identification and evaluation of the issues/problems referring to respective implementation conditions, analysis of consequences for implementations, and analysis of possible solutions for better implementation
bcharacteristic identified only documents referring to interventions
ccharacteristic identified only in documents referring to policy

Discussion

This study provides an insight into conditions important for implementation of interventions and policies targeting healthy diet, PA, and SB in various populations. We identified 83 conditions of which the majority ( 87.9 %) were supported by documents addressing both interventions and policies.
This study aimed to contribute to the development of an evidence-based list of implementation conditions (Table 2), which provide a comprehensive overview and operationalize aspects of implementation which may contribute to the overall effectiveness of interventions and policies promoting healthy diet and PA. Other lists of implementation conditions illustrate certain frameworks or models by unsystematic review of existing research [16, 17]. These lists are usually generic in terms of behavior (i.e., assumed to be feasible for any health promoting actions). In contrast, our list was developed by systematically reviewing empirical evidence obtained in systematic reviews, documents of major stakeholders, and evidence-based positon papers. Therefore, our list represents - more so than earlier attempts - an accumulation of evidence, guidelines and practice in implementation of policies and interventions promoting healthy diet and PA.
Our efforts to identify characteristics which are evidence and practice-based were undertaken in a response to concerns of practitioners and researchers indicating difficulties in the processes of translating laboratory-based interventions and polices into real-life contexts [17]. The replications and transfer of successful interventions and policies to other settings, communities, and cultures may depend on availability of detailed protocols of implementation conditions. The ‘adoptions, adaptations, and actions’ used in the implementation processes are likely to influence the obtained effects of policies and interventions ([17], p. 600). Thorough reporting of the content of policies and interventions and implementation conditions is essential for identification of the components that are responsible for the success of interventions or policies [7]. Therefore, the protocols of interventions and polices should thoroughly discuss details of implementation conditions, which may be in part responsible for success (or failure) of interventions or policies.
The choice of RE-AIM [15] as the guiding framework results in highlighting certain domains of implementation, such as Reach. Other frameworks or approaches may stress other implementation domains, such as fidelity in a more robust fashion [6, 7]. Any comparisons made between the programs and evaluating their outcomes are based on assumptions that the program was delivered as originally intended. The present study applied RE-AIM merely for the purpose of organizing the findings. The results should not be interpreted as verifying RE-AIM or pointing to the importance of certain domains. The findings do not assume a hierarchy of domains, broader thematic characteristics or specific implementation conditions. Further research is necessary to elicit which implementation conditions are the strongest determinants of success of intervention/policies.
Our study resulted in a development of an evidence-based checklist of implementation conditions (Table 2), which may guide the planning, development, and reporting of interventions and policies addressing diet, PA, and SB. This list includes the implementation conditions supported in our study and a column (at a right hand side) for the researcher or practitioner to indicate if a condition was addressed by the intervention/policy being evaluated. Our checklist also facilitates follow-up analyses, for example, one has the space to note where the condition was addressed in the protocols or reports of intervention/policies.
Due to its evidence and practice-based character it may be useful for researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders. Researchers may use the list as a set of factors which need to be taken into account when developing and evaluating real-world interventions or policies. The list can be treated as an evidence-based set of conditions which are likely to facilitate implementation and increase the likelihood of a success of the intervention. The use of the list by researchers would improve reporting on interventions/policies which have been already implemented.
This evidence-based list may be used by stakeholders, practitioners and specialist responsible for developing and evaluating large-scale public health interventions and policies. It may be applied as a checklist for identifying implementation conditions which: (1) were not accounted for while developing the program, (2) were emphasized when the policy/intervention was applied, and (3) were not considered when the intervention/policy was developed and thus the likelihood of successful implementation may be reduced.
Substantial effort has been recently devoted to promote detailed reporting of the content of interventions and policies [8], yet the content of interventions and policies is implemented in specific contexts [16]. To date, discussion on the role of “decontextualizing” interventions and policies has focused mainly on translating laboratory-based evidence to real-life settings [16]. More thorough reporting and investigation of implementation conditions could be applied in small-scale efficacy research or preliminary tests of intervention/policy effects to identify critical implementation conditions which facilitate or hinder the effects of specific behavior change techniques. Furthermore, researchers should more often consider assessing implementation conditions through evaluating policies as natural experiments, taking place in specific socio-cultural contexts. This approach could foster research on policy implementation and therefore allow for accumulating empirical evidence for eliciting the most essential implementation conditions.
As some existing implementation frameworks and models account for policies only, we investigated implementation conditions which may be policy-specific. The results indicated that policy-specific implementation conditions share some common themes. First, they refer to increasing complexities of coexisting policies and legal instruments, which operate in a parallel manner, to facilitate or hinder the implementation of a new policy. Second, the policy-specific implementation conditions stress a need to account for legal instruments (existing and newly developed for policy implementation) and industry involvement at various stages of implementation. These conditions may reflect the differences between interventions and polices in the scale of the actions (i.e., policies are operating at regional or wider scale). In particular, the implementation of actions operating on a broader scale (e.g. regional, national) may be more dependent on involvement of industry and legal acts supporting initiation and maintenance of population-targeting policies.
Our study has several limitations. First, we used an arbitrary criterion for distinguishing between policies and interventions based on a WHO definition [4], referring to the scale of operation (i.e. international versus local). However, there are many cases of policies developed and enacted on a local level, and there are examples of large scale interventions that are regional and national in scope. In consequence, several health promotion programs were arbitrarily categorized as either promotion or policies, although they might have characteristics of both. The findings indicating a limited number of conditions which were either policy-specific or intervention-specific may be the consequence of applied categorization. The proposed list is based on a review of documents which vary in terms of the methodology used to elicit implementation conditions and in terms of the quality of the methods applied. Future research is warranted to investigate how the methods of obtaining data or the type of data sources affect the content of the list of implementation conditions. In applying umbrella review strategies we did not account for the most recent research. As new evidence accumulates each year, the proposed list of implementation conditions will require a regular update and verification. Compared to other proposals listing relevant implementation conditions in policies and interventions, our efforts were confined to actions referring to healthy diet, PA, and SB. However, we did not analyze if the conditions may be behavior-specific or if they may be only relevant in specific populations (e.g. children). The categorization of implementation conditions was conducted using definitions or brief descriptions of these conditions, provided in reviews or stakeholders documents. Therefore, our work represents a second-level categorization, relying on the quality of the categorization processes used in the analyzed documents. Finally, the applied inclusion threshold was based on an arbitrary cut-off point of the upper quartile for the number of documents supporting a characteristic in either the systematic reviews, position papers or stakeholder documents). Although similar quartile-based thresholds are used in health promotion research [9, 25], this threshold does not reflect the quality of obtained evidence, but rather the focus of research conducted so far. The change of the inclusion threshold (e.g., to the upper 15 %) would result in a reduction of the number of implementation characteristics to 58. However, such change of the threshold could result in bias towards excluding conditions which are investigated less often. In particular, a half of the policy-specific implementation conditions would be excluded, if such threshold pertained. Future research is needed to conduct a thorough sensitivity analysis which would take into account the quality of the documents included and the types of the analyzed documents). In summary, all conclusions should be treated with caution and the list of characteristics may change with future research.

Conclusions

In conclusion, this review resulted in developing a list of 83 conditions important for successful implementation of interventions and policies. The list is based on accumulating research evidence and the position of major stakeholders responsible for developing guidelines in health promotion. The list may enhance the implementation of interventions and policies which pursue identification of most successful actions aimed at promoting healthy diet, PA, and a reduction of SB in various populations. It may facilitate future research in that the list may be seen as a point of departure for further syntheses. The list might be shortened if future research demonstrates a lack of relevance of some implementation conditions used in the context of policies and interventions addressing diet, PA, and SB. Until then, this broad list has a potential to inspire accumulating more detailed data and guide the process of application of polices and interventions across contexts.

Acknowledgements

The preparation of this paper was supported by the DEDIPAC Knowledge Hub. The DEDIPAC project is funded under the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) a Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life, a research and innovation initiative of European Union member states and associated countries. The content of this article reflects only the authors’ views and the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) a Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. This article is supported by the following funding agencies (in alphabetical order of participating Member State): Belgium: Research Foundation – Flanders; The Netherlands: The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw); Ireland: The Health Research Board – HRB; Norway: The Research Council of Norway; Poland: The National Centre for Research and Development.
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Authors’ contributions

KH contributed to the conception of the study and its design, conducted data search, data extraction, data analysis and synthesis, drafted and revised the manuscript. AL contributed to the conception of the study and its design, conducted data extraction, contributed to data analysis and synthesis, and revised the manuscript. CBH contributed to the conception of the study, its design, conducted data search and data extraction, contributed to data analysis and synthesis, and revised the draft of the manuscript. MOS participated in the conception of the study and its design conducted data search and data extraction, contributed to data analysis and synthesis, and revised the draft of the manuscript. LJL contributed to the conception of the study and its design, conducted data search data extraction, contributed to data analysis and synthesis, and revised the draft of the manuscript. GR participated in the conception of the study and its design and data extraction, contributed to analysis and synthesis, and revised the draft of the manuscript. MvdB participated in the conception of the study and its design, data synthesis, and revised the draft of the manuscript. MH conceived of the study and its design, participated in data synthesis, and revised the draft of the manuscript. IDB contributed to conception of the study and revised the manuscript. HB contributed to conception of the study and revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Metadaten
Titel
Implementation conditions for diet and physical activity interventions and policies: an umbrella review
verfasst von
Karolina Horodyska
Aleksandra Luszczynska
Catherine B. Hayes
Miriam P. O’Shea
Lars J. Langøien
Gun Roos
Matthijs van den Berg
Marieke Hendriksen
Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij
Johannes Brug
Publikationsdatum
01.12.2015
Verlag
BioMed Central
Erschienen in
BMC Public Health / Ausgabe 1/2015
Elektronische ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2585-5

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