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. 2022 Aug 30;11:180. doi: 10.1186/s13643-022-02030-2

Table 2.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria using an adapted version of the PICo framework

Inclusion criteria Exclusion criteria
Population PCPs (general practitioners/family doctors, physicians in community paediatrics, community obstetrics and gynaecology or general internal medicine)

• Participant roles unclear

• PCP data not reported separately from data regarding non-PCPs, students, patients or carers

Phenomena of interest Barriers and facilitators (directly reported by PCPs or extracted from views, perceptions, beliefs, attitudes and experiences of PCPs) to clinical behaviour change (any behaviour in relation to patient care, including diagnosis, management, communication with patients and shared-decision-making, and inter-professional collaboration). Barriers were defined as factors which obstruct or prevent clinical behaviour change. Facilitators were defined as factors which support or promote behaviour change.

Barriers and facilitators to:

• patient or carer behaviour change

• change in PCP knowledge or attitudes to a patient sub-group

Context Majority high-income primary healthcare settings (as defined by The World Bank country classification [43])

• Non-primary healthcare settings

• Majority low-middle-income settings

Types of studies Any type of review (including but not limited to systematic, narrative, realist, meta-aggregation, meta-ethnography) examining qualitative, quantitative or mixed empirical studies in English

• Reviews in a language other than English

• Reviews of reviews, abstracts, protocols, errata, editorials and conference reports

PCPs primary care practitioners