Equity focused workshops: Developing a supplementary method to judge the equity of health interventions.

ABSTRACT: Systematic reviews that consider the equity of interventions are an important method. However, this approach can be limited when analyses of inequity for a specific intervention are rare. We aimed to develop and pilot Equity-Focused Workshops (EFWs), a method to supplement evidence synthesis approaches when primary studies do not report data about intervention equity. A workshop protocol was developed with methods experts, focusing on understanding equitable access to interventions between socioeconomic groups. We tested the protocol in three workshops with populations experiencing material disadvantage, using two hypothetical interventions. Data were collected about participants' views of the intervention, including acceptability and accessibility. Data were summarised and reviewed to app

SUBMITTER: Spiers G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12315834 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature