Table 3 Distribution of the number of publications across stages of systems approach and type of methodological approach
From: A scoping review of systems approaches for increasing physical activity in populations
Methodological approach | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stage of systems approach | System mapping | Network analysis | System modelling | System framing | Protocol development | Generic methods | Methods development | Literature synthesis | Totals (stages of systems approach) [N = 155] |
Theorizing | 16 | 5 | 1 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 61 |
Prediction | 2 | 1 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 61 |
Intervention development | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
Process evaluation | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
Impact evaluation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
Unclear systems approach | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 3 |
Totals (methodological approaches) [n = 152a] | 21 | 6 | 55 | 33 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 12 | |