Table 1.

Characteristics of studies including the views of people who had not taken up an offer of an NHS Health Check

Author (year)	Type of report	Region	Setting of NHS Health Checks	Data collection method	Participants, n	Recruitment of non-attenders	Participant characteristics
Burgess et al (2015)15	Journal article	South London	Four general practices	Semi-structured interviews	10	Purposive sampling by age, sex, and attendance of patients who had been invited but not attended	7 females, 3 males Predominantly white ethnicity
Ellis et al (2015)14	Journal article	Stoke-on-Trent	Four general practices	Telephone and face-to-face semi-structured interviews	41	500 letters of invitation sent by GPs to those who had not taken up the invitation for an NHS Health Check. Incentivised with the offer of £15 to participate	22 females, 19 males Mean age 52.9 ± 8.5 Sociodemographically representative of non-attendees
NHS Greenwich (2011)17	Evaluation report	Greenwich	Clinic and community setting	In-depth telephone interviews	10	Recruited through social marketing by social marketing professionals	Not given
Health Diagnostics (2014)16	Case studies	North East of England	General practice, pharmacy	Face-to-face survey	325	Recruited on the street	Not given
Jenkinson et al (2015)19	Journal article	Torbay	Four general practices	Face-to-face and telephone interviews	10	Letters of invitation to a random sample stratified by age and sex of those who had not responded to an invitation	6 females, 4 males 4 employed, 1 unemployed,5 retired
Krska et al (2015)20	Journal article	Sefton, an area in North West England	16 general practices	Postal survey with free-text responses	210	Postal survey to all patients with estimated 10-year CVD risk >20%	46 females, 164 males 67%>65 years, 99.5% white 14.6% highest quintile of deprivation 9.2% lowest quintile of deprivation
McDermott et al (2016)18	HTA report	Lambeth and Lewisham	18 general practices	Content analysis of questionnaire	Not given	Questionnaires sent to all participants in the two intervention arms of a trial of enhanced invitation methods	Not given
Oswald et al (2010)13	Evaluation report	Teesside	Any	Semi-structured interviews	51	Participants approached on the street at job centres, working men’s clubs, and libraries	Not given
Taylor et al (2012)12	Journal article	Sefton PCT	Pharmacy	Face-to-face survey	261	High-street locations, community centres, and other social settings in the vicinity	172 females, 89 males 20.7% 35–45 years 30.6% 46–55 years 23.4% 56–65 years 25.3% 66–75 years

CVD = cardiovascular disease. HTA = Health Technology Assessment. PCT = primary care trust.