Study and source eligibility
Study design	☐ Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) ☐ Quasi‐RCTs ☐ Non‐RCTs ☐ Prospective cohort studies ☐ Retrospective cohort studies ☐ Case‐control studies ☐ Cross‐sectional studies ☐ Controlled before‐and‐after studies ☐ Modelling studies ☒ Other (qualitative studies and mixed‐methods studies. Mixed‐methods studies that include qualitative component utilising qualitative methods of data collection and analysis)
Minimum duration
‘SPICE’ eligibility (setting, population, phenomenon of interest, comparison, evaluation)
Setting	Healthcare facilities (Primary care settings, acute hospital settings, long‐term care or community settings)
Population	Health care workers working with respiratory infectious diseases (alternate terms: healthcare professionals, health service providers) To include any healthcare worker including professionals (e.g. doctors, nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, pharmacists) or other workers (e.g. radiology porter, healthcare assistant) with responsibility for patient care in any hospital, long‐term care or community setting (adapted from Moralejo 2018). Respiratory infectious diseases (alternate term: acute respiratory infections (ARIs) To include: CoVID‐19, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS‐CoV), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), tuberculosis (TB), influenza‐like illness
Phenomenon of interest	Compliance/adherence to infection prevention and control (IPC) guidelines/recommendations early recognition and source control (triage, respiratory hygiene) administrative controls (isolation, spatial separation, patient cohorting) environmental and engineering controls (cleaning and disinfection, ventilation) PPE (donning and doffing, gowns, gloves, masks, goggles, hand washing) (guided by but not exclusive to WHO 2014)
Comparison	Potential comparison between subgroups: different settings, geographical areas, healthcare workers, types of diseases
Evaluation	Barriers and facilitators (to include experiences and perceptions and factor that impact on adherence and compliance)