Table 1 Summary of studies included
From: How are health-related behaviours influenced by a diagnosis of pre-diabetes? A meta-narrative review
Author | Paper no | Research perspective | Study design | Study population | Theory or framework used | CASP score | CERQual score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1,2 | Social realist | In-depth semi-structured interviews | 10 individuals participating in intervention; focus groups with 14 clinicians | Bourdieu: habitus Giddens: agency/structure Weber: choices/chances | 9 | 1 | |
Greenhalgh 2015 [31] | 3 | Social realist | Group storytelling and in-depth narrative interviews | South Asian women with a history of GDM, 17 in focus groups and 28 individual narratives | Glass and McAtee’s axis of nested hierarchies influencing behaviours and disease risk Giddens: agency/structure Weber: choices/chances | 9 | 1 |
Jallinoja 2008 [32] | 4 | Biomedical | Structured focus groups with pre-defined questions | 30 individuals interviewed after a lifestyle intervention. | No explicit theoretical framework, though references to Giddens’s reflexivity and individuality and self-determination theory | 9 | 0.5 |
Walker 2012 [28] | 5 | Psychological | Structured focus groups | 29 people a year after a lifestyle intervention | Health action process approach (Schwarzer) | 8 | 0.5 |
Troughton 2008 [36] | 6 | Biomedical | 1:1 semi-structured interviews | 15 participants, 40% with South Asian ethnicity | Leventhal’s self-regulatory model of illness behaviour referred to in discussion but not in analysis | 8 | 0.1 |
Satterfield 2003 [35] | 7 | Biomedical | Open-ended focus groups | 235 persons from a mixed US population | None | 7 | 0.1 |
Tang 2015 [38] | 8 | Psychological | Semi-structured interviews | 23 women with a history of GDM within the last year | Health belief model | 9 | 0.5 |
Vlaar 2014 [27] | 9 | Psychological | Structured questionnaire (Likert scales) | 535 people in a randomised controlled trial on diabetes prevention | Leventhal’s self-regulatory model of illness behaviour | 9 | 1 |
Kim 2007 [24] | 10 | Psychological | Telephone or written survey | 217 women of white ethnicity with a history of GDM | Health belief model | 8 | 0.5 |
Jones 2011 [25] | 11 | Psychological | Quantitative survey with semi-structured interview | 22 women with a history of GDM within the last 7Â years. | Risk perception attitude framework | 8 | 0.5 |
Morrison 2014 [33] | 12 | Biomedical | Semi-structured interviews | 20 trial participants and four family volunteers | None | 9 | 0.5 |
Penn 2015 [34] | 13 | Biomedical | Semi-structured interviews | 15 intervention participants from a South Asian ethnic group | None (theoretical domains framework used in structure coding) | 8 | 0.5 |
Kolb 2015 [26] | 14 | Psychological | 60-item multi-choice survey | 54 black or Hispanic women | Trans-theoretical model of stages of change | 8 | 1 |
Morrison 2010 [39] | 15 | Biomedical | Cross-sectional analysis of national survey | 1381 women with a history of GDM | None | 9 | 1 |
Penn 2018 [37] | 16 | Biomedical | Semi-structured interviews and focus group as part of an evaluation | 21 people with pre-diabetes undertaking DPP | None | 9 | 1 |