| Affective attitude |
Feelings about the intervention |
Acceptability, liking or recommending; finding physical attributes acceptable |
| Burden |
Perceived effort required to engage in intervention |
Ease of use; ease of insertion and removal; cognitive and emotional burden of use |
| Ethicality |
Intervention fit with an individual’s value system; normative fit |
Disclosure of use; use without partner/family knowledge; partner/family approval |
| Intervention coherence |
Understanding of the intervention |
We did not include studies reporting intervention coherence |
| Opportunity costs |
Extent to which benefits, profits, or values must be given up engaging in the intervention |
Impacts on sexual intercourse; vaginal discharge/irritation; expulsions; discomfort; and foreign body sensation |
| Perceived effectiveness |
Extent to which the intervention is perceived to achieve its purpose |
Perceived ability to prevent pregnancy/infectious disease/other VR outcomes; reduced risk of certain cancers |
| Self-efficacy |
Confidence to perform the behaviors required for the intervention |
Ability to support use |
