Table 1.

Criteria for review of full texts for inclusion in study

Inclusion

Exclusion

Article was published between 2000 and 31 December 2020. Study was conducted inside of USA (may include other countries as well, as long as USA is named also). The implementation of a tobacco control intervention or programme was studied. Implementation science was explicitly used. The authors: described planned actions to promote human behaviour change in order to integrate tobacco control interventions into educational, community or clinical settings, considered organisational constraints and facilitators that could affect uptake and delivery of the intervention, and collected data regarding the processes and/or outcomes of their planned actions. Data related to implementation science questions were collected and analysed.  Explicit use is further defined as reference to use of implementation science, knowledge translation or transfer, a specific implementation science framework or model, implementation strategies, assessment of implementation stages or implementation outcomes. Other elements may be included if they emerge in the course of the review.

Completely outside of the USA Dissertation or thesis Essay or opinion piece Study protocol only Only describes guidelines Report of a conference presentation Book Does not describe implementation of a tobacco control intervention Analysis of secondary surveillance or cross-sectional data by authors not involved in delivering intervention No indication that implementation science elements were used