Do process evaluations open up the 'black box' of implementation interventions in health care? A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Process evaluations are considered an essential component in conducting and reporting complex interventions, such as those studied in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of implementation interventions, to explain the effect of implementation interventions. Given the growth of RCTs of implementation interventions with embedded process evaluations, it is timely to review the explanatory learnings to date. This scoping review explores process evaluations of RCTs of implementation interventions to examine how studies are conducted and what insights can be offered about how and why implementation interventions achieve (or not) their intended impacts.

Methods

The scoping review was conducted in accordance with the JBI methodology. MEDLINE, CINAHL, Scopus, Web of Scienc

SUBMITTER: Bracci EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12729754 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature