Using theory of change to design and evaluate public health interventions: a systematic review.
Using theory of change to design and evaluate public health interventions: a systematic review.
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10.1186/s13012-016-0422-6
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2016-05-06
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Lund C
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Breuer E;Lee L;De Silva M;Lund C
尽管变化理论（ToC）方法越来越受欢迎，但人们对ToC在公共卫生干预措施的设计和评估中的应用程度知之甚少。本综述旨在确定ToCs是如何开发的，以及如何在全球公共卫生干预措施的制定和评价中加以使用。我们在同行评议的期刊文章数据库（如Scopus、Pubmed、PsychInfo、灰色文献数据库、谷歌和发展资助者网站）中搜索了报道在公共卫生干预措施的发展或评估中使用“变化理论”的论文。我们纳入了任何日期、语言和研究设计的论文。摘要和全文论文都经过了双重筛选。提取数据并进行叙述和定量总结。本次综述共收录了62篇论文。49篇（79%）描述了ToC的发展，18篇（29%）描述了ToC在干预措施发展中的使用，49篇（79%）描述了ToC在干预措施评估中的使用。虽然综述中包含了大量的论文，但它们对ToC的发展和在干预设计和评价中的应用的描述缺乏细节。在公共卫生文献中广泛使用ToC方法。清晰地报告ToC过程和输出对于加强ToC实际应用的文献体系，以发展我们对使用ToC的好处和优势的理解非常重要。我们还提出了一份报告ToC使用情况的清单，以确保报告的透明度，并建议报告ToC方法的作者使用和改进我们的清单。本文的在线版本（doi:10.1186/s13012-016-0422-6）包含补充材料，仅供授权用户使用。
Despite the increasing popularity of the theory of change (ToC) approach, little is known about the extent to which ToC has been used in the design and evaluation of public health interventions. This review aims to determine how ToCs have been developed and used in the development and evaluation of public health interventions globally. We searched for papers reporting the use of “theory of change” in the development or evaluation of public health interventions in databases of peer-reviewed journal articles such as Scopus, Pubmed, PsychInfo, grey literature databases, Google and websites of development funders. We included papers of any date, language or study design. Both abstracts and full text papers were double screened. Data were extracted and narratively and quantitatively summarised. A total of 62 papers were included in the review. Forty-nine (79 %) described the development of ToC, 18 (29 %) described the use of ToC in the development of the intervention and 49 (79 %) described the use of ToC in the evaluation of the intervention. Although a large number of papers were included in the review, their descriptions of the ToC development and use in intervention design and evaluation lacked detail. The use of the ToC approach is widespread in the public health literature. Clear reporting of the ToC process and outputs is important to strengthen the body of literature on practical application of ToC in order to develop our understanding of the benefits and advantages of using ToC. We also propose a checklist for reporting on the use of ToC to ensure transparent reporting and recommend that our checklist is used and refined by authors reporting the ToC approach. The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13012-016-0422-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.