Full Report - Research for Development - Department for ...

Contents
List of abbreviations .......................................................................... iv
Executive summary ............................................................................ 1
Background ................................................................................... 1
Methods ....................................................................................... 1
Details of included studies ................................................................. 2
Synthesis results ............................................................................. 2
Conclusions and recommendations........................................................ 2
1. Background .................................................................................. 4
1.1 Aims and rationale for the review .................................................... 4
1.2 Definitional and conceptual issues ................................................... 5
1.3 Policy and practice background....................................................... 7
1.4 Research background ................................................................... 9
1.5 Objectives .............................................................................. 12
2. Methods used in the review ............................................................. 14
2.1 User involvement ..................................................................... 14
2.2 Identifying and describing studies .................................................. 14
2.3 Methods for synthesis ................................................................ 19
2.4 Deriving conclusions and implications ............................................. 21
3. Search results ............................................................................. 22
3.1 Studies included from searching and screening .................................. 22
3.2 Details of included studies .......................................................... 23
4. Synthesis results .......................................................................... 29
4.1 Further details of studies included in the synthesis ............................. 29
4.2 Synthesis of evidence: causal chain analysis ...................................... 45
4.3 Summary of results of causal chain analysis ...................................... 51
5. Strengths and limitations ................................................................ 53
5.1 Search strategy ..................................................................... 53
5.2 Scope of review .................................................................... 54
6. Conclusions and recommendations ..................................................... 55
7. References ................................................................................. 58
7.1 Studies included in review ........................................................... 58
7.2 Other references used in the text of the technical report ..................... 65
Appendices .................................................................................... 73
Appendix 1.1: Authorship of this report ................................................ 73
Appendix 2.1: Inclusion and exclusion criteria ........................................ 75
Appendix 2.2: Search strategy for electronic databases ............................. 77
Appendix 2.3: Search strategy for websites ........................................... 82
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