Table 1. Characteristics of the included studies.

Author	Publication year	Data collection	Participants	Sample size	Location	Urban/rural family physician
Doshmangir et al.16	2017	Interview	Informed individuals from the Ministry of Health, health insurance organisations, management and planning organisation in Iran, the Iran Medical Council, medical universities and health research centres	19	Cities in Iran	Urban
Fardid et al.20	2019	Interview and focus group discussion	National and regional policy-makers, managers, physicians, patients, health professionals and FPP officers who influenced the decision-making process and FPP implementation	24 (interview) and 3 (focus group discussion)	Fars province	Urban
Mehrolhassani et al.14	2021	Interview	Policy-makers and managers at national and provincial Levels	44	Kerman province	Urban
Dehnavieh et al.15	2015	Interview	Informed individuals from medical universities, health service insurances and medical systems as well as social physicians and researchers in the field of family medicine	21	Cities in Kerman province	Urban
Gharibi and Dadgar21	2020
Mohammadi Bolbanabad et al.22	2019	Interview and focus group discussion	Managers, experts, family physicians, specialists, midwives, health insurance experts, service recipients and Behvarz	30 (interview) and 5 (focus group discussion)	Kordestan province	Rural
Abedi et al.23	2017	Interview	Family physicians, senior managers, experts and board members	9	Iran	Urban
Hooshmand et al.24	2020	Interview	Managers and family physicians	20	Khorasan Razavi province	Rural
Alaie et al.25	2020	Interview	Policy-makers and informants	26	Iran	Urban/rural
Farzad et al.26	2018	Interview and focus group discussion	Family physicians, midwives, managers, health insurance managers and service recipients	37 (interview) and 21 (focus group discussion)	Kordestan, Alborz and West Azerbaijan provinces	Urban
Kaskaldareh et al.27	2021	Interview	Health network assistants, health network development authorities,	15	Gilan province	Urban/rural