Table 2.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Original and empirical studies using quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods	Reviews, syntheses, meta-analyses, book chapters, study protocols, conference papers, grey literature
Adult patient populations with CRC	Child and adolescent patients
eHealth interventions to support CRC patients following primary surgery	eHealth studies targeting CRC patients in the pre-surgical phase Studies on screening or surveillance of the development of CRC eHealth studies not reporting on CRC patient outcomes Studies reporting on the development phase of eHealth programs
Peer-reviewed studies
Published in English between 2012 and 2022