Table 1 Included studies: author, title, country, intervention duration, health issue addressed, target population, and study design
Study ID | Title | Country | Duration of intervention | Population Health Issue Addressed | Target population | Study design | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Allender et al., 2019 [39] | Translating systems thinking into practice for community action on childhood obesity | Australia | 2016–2017 (1.5 years) | Childhood obesity prevention | Children | Qualitative study reporting on a stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial |
2 | Amed et al., 2016 [40] Amed and Kennedy are related studies: SCOPE | Wayfinding the live 5–2-1–0 initiative—At the intersection between systems thinking and community-based childhood obesity prevention | Canada | 2009–2014 (6 years) | Childhood obesity prevention | Children | Mixed methods |
3 | Kennedy et al. 2019 [41] Amed and Kennedy are related studies: SCOPE | Propagating Change: Using RE-FRAME to Scale and Sustain A Community-Based Childhood Obesity Prevention Initiative | 2009–2016 (8 years) | Childhood obesity prevention | Mixed methods | ||
4 | Ballard et al., 2020 [17] Ballard and Purnell are related studies | Community-Based System Dynamics for Mobilizing Communities to Advance School Health | United States | 2018–2019 (2 years) | (Complexity of) School health | School students (K-12 education context) | Mixed methods Case study |
5 | Purnell et al., 2020 [42] Ballard and Purnell are related studies | Research to Translation: The Healthy Schools Toolkit and New Approaches to the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model | 2017–2019 [3 years] | Whole health in schools | Mixed methods | ||
6 | Bensberg 2021a [43] Bensberg 2021a and 2021b are related studies: Healthy Together Victoria | Developing a Systems Mindset in Community-Based Prevention | Australia | 2011–2016 (6 years) | Obesity prevention Chronic disease prevention | All ages | Qualitative |
6 | Bensberg et al., 2021b [44] Bensberg 2021a and 2021b are related studies: Healthy Together Victoria | Building a prevention system: Infrastructure to strengthen health promotion outcomes | 2012–2016 (5 years) | Qualitative | |||
7 | Brimblecombe et al., 2015 [45] | Development of the good food planning tool: A food system approach to food security in indigenous Australian remote communities | Australia | 2009–2013 (5 years) | Food security | Indigenous Australian remote communities (all ages) | Mixed methods Case study |
8 | Buccini et al., 2019 [46] | How does "Becoming Breastfeeding Friendly" work? A Programme Impact Pathways Analysis | Ghana and Mexico | 2017–2018 (2 years) | Breastfeeding friendly | Mothers who wish to breastfeed | Mixed methods |
9 | Gadsby et al., 2020 [47] | Impact of a community-based pilot intervention to tackle childhood obesity: a 'whole-system approach' case study | United Kingdom | 2015–2018 (4 years) | Childhood obesity prevention | Children 6-11 years | Mixed methods Case study |
11 | Kremser, 2011 [48] | Phases of school health promotion implementation through the lens of complexity theory: lessons learnt from an Austrian case study | Austria | 2008–2009 (2 years) | Health promoting school | Primary school children (note – primary school is for four years in Vienna) | Mixed methods Case study |
12 | Matheson et al., 2020 [49] | Strengthening prevention in communities through systems change: lessons from the evaluation of Healthy Families NZ | New Zealand | 2014 – 2016 (3 years, intervention ongoing to 2022) | Prevention of chronic diseases | Families | Mixed methods Comparative case study |
13 | Ramanadhan et al., 2017 [50] | Building practitioner networks to support dissemination and implementation of evidence-based programs in community settings | United States | 2010–2012 (3 years) | Adaptation of evidence-based (health) programs in community | All ages | Qualitative Manuscript states: ‘Study design’ The study utilized whole-network (or sociometric) analysis for each of the three communities) |
14 | Rosas et al., 2019 [51] | Evaluating a complex health promotion intervention: case application of three systems methods | United States | 2011–2015 (5 years) | Health and wellbeing of youth | 12–15 years | Mixed methods Case study |
15 | Rothwell et al., 2010 [52] | Implementing a Social-Ecological Model of Health in Wales | United Kingdom | 2001- 2007 (7 years) | Healthy schools | Children – primary and secondary age | Qualitative Case study |
16 | Sautkina et al., 2014 [53] | Lost in translation? Theory, policy and practice in systems-based environmental approaches to obesity prevention in the Healthy Towns programme in England | United Kingdom | 2008–2011 (4 years) | Obesity prevention | All ages | Qualitative |
17 | Serpas et al., 2013 [54] | San Diego Healthy Weight Collaborative: a systems approach to address childhood obesity | United States | 2010–2012 (3 years) | Childhood obesity prevention | Children | Mixed methods |