Table 1.

Eligibility criteria for inclusion and exclusion of school environment assessment tools.

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

1.School environment tools to specifically evaluate the environment related to behavioural NCD risk factors (i.e. unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, tobacco and alcohol consumption) in schools. School environment in this context refers to all school-level attributes which directly or indirectly influence NCD risk factors among children and adolescents. These include built environment of the schools and the formal or informal school level policies and activities which informs health behaviours and knowledge of NCD risk factors among children and school staff. 2.Published in English Language 3.Published on or after 1990.

1.Tools which have assessed educational environment, or school mental health. 2.Tools which have assessed environment in pre-schools, colleges (degree schools), or schools for especially abled individuals. 3.Tools exclusively assessing behaviours, knowledge, attitude and practices of children/school staff without assessing other determinants related to school activities or policies. 4.identified records in which neither the full tool nor the psychometric properties were retrieved.