Using Normalization Process Theory in feasibility studies and process evaluations of complex healthcare interventions: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Normalization Process Theory (NPT) identifies, characterises and explains key mechanisms that promote and inhibit the implementation, embedding and integration of new health techniques, technologies and other complex interventions. A large body of literature that employs NPT to inform feasibility studies and process evaluations of complex healthcare interventions has now emerged. The aims of this review were to review this literature; to identify and characterise the uses and limits of NPT in research on the implementation and integration of healthcare interventions; and to explore NPT's contribution to understanding the dynamics of these processes.

Methods

A qualitative systematic review was conducted. We searched Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar for art

SUBMITTER: May CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5992634 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature