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. 2024 Jan 11;10(2):e24332. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e24332

Table 2.

The inclusion and exclusion criteria defined for screening search results.

PICO Inclusion criteria Exclusion criteria
Population (P)

  • Interventions conducted in the general community at the household level from any geographical region will be included without any restriction based on demographic factors like race/ethnicity, gender, religion, or other socioeconomic parameters.

  • Interventions conducted at other than the household level (like commercial/industrial establishments, hospitals, etc.)

  • Interventions focussing on hostels, university campus residences, old-age homes, etc. will be excluded since these settings differ from community households in multiple ways.
Intervention (I)

  • Interventions that target waste segregation at source will be included.

  • Interventions targeting household liquid waste (sewage, wastewater)

  • Interventions focussing on sanitary/hazardous/construction waste

  • Studies that conducted choice experiments, simulations, modelling, etc. without field-based intervention.

  • Studies evaluating waste segregation scheme/policy (considered as the intervention) but not clearly reporting change in waste segregation pre and post introduction of the scheme/policy.

  • Observational/secondary data analysis studies not reporting any interventional component.
Comparator (C)

  • Interventions without any control group such as quasi-experimental studies as well as those using specified control groups/self-control for comparison will be included.

  • None
Outcome (O)

  • Interventions clearly reporting change from the baseline (pre-intervention values) in household waste segregation (quantity segregated and/or segregation related knowledge/attitude/behaviour) measured quantitatively

  • Interventions targeting only waste minimisation without reporting segregation related outcomes
Miscellaneous

  • Peer-reviewed journal publications/Theses/Book chapters.

  • Non-English Articles;

  • Duplicate publications, Protocols of interventions;

  • Reviews and other publication types such as Editorials, Commentaries, Viewpoints, Perspectives, Letter to editor, etc.