3. Descriptive summaries: intervention characteristics, by intervention class.
Intervention Details | Behavioural (BEH), (median, IQR) | Educational (EDU), (median, IQR) | Supportive (SUP), (median, IQR) | Mixed (MIX), (median, IQR) |
Study duration (weeks) | 12 (12‐52) | 12 (6‐26) | 12 (12‐16) | 14 (12‐52) |
Intervention duration (weeks) | 4 (2‐12) | 0 (0‐4.5)* | 12 (9‐13) | 12 (10‐25) |
# of Intervention episodes | 3 (3‐14) | 2 (1‐6) | NR (MOST) | 7 (5‐10) |
Contact time (minutes) | 90 (80‐240) | 21 (11‐105) | NR | 75 (33‐143) |
* Educational interventions that took place in a single participant interaction (e.g., dispensing written material, single presentation) were assigned a duration of '0' weeks.
Abbreviations: IQR: interquartile range; NR: not reported; NR (MOST): most studies did not report.