Table 3.
Level of community participation in each phase of project development for each study.
| First author (Year) | Focus of study | Four phases of project development |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diagnosis | Development | Implementation | Evaluation | ||
| Adler et al. (2019) [32] | Hypertension | 3 | Unknown | 5 | 5 |
| Adler et al. (2020) [33] | Hypertension | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| Adongo et al. (2014) [29] | Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| Agongo et al. (2021) [31] | Obesity and cardiometabolic disease | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Alhasan, et al. (2016) [30] | Quality healthcare | 6 | 5 | 5 | Unknown |
| Appiah et al. (2020) [43] | Depression | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Baatiema et al. (2013) [26] | Community participation2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| (Cappuccio et al. 2006) [34] | Hypertension | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| de-Graft Aikins (2014) [39] | CVD | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| de-Graft Aikins (2020) [8] | CVD | 4 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
| Gaala (2008) [28] | Health delivery and management | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Haykin et al (2020) [40] | CVD | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Lamptey (2017) [27] | Hypertension | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Ojo et al. (2020) [42] | Stroke | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Read et al. (2020) [41] | Mental health | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Adapted from Snijder et al.,[24]. Possible scores range from 1 to 7: 1 = no participation; 2 = passive participation; 3 = participation by information; 4 = participation by consultation; 5 = functional participation; 6 = interactive participation; 7 = self-mobilisation, UNK = unknown.