Table 3 The implementation domain of good practice characteristics for interventions and policies aiming at dietary behavior and physical activity change

Participation processes

Completion, attrition rates across stages (and their representativeness)

Systematic reviews: [53,59,75,90,100]; Stakeholders’ documents: [14,118]; Position reviews: [8].

Resources and strategies for practitioners helping them to invite and follow-up participants

Systematic reviews: [3,67,80,125]; Stakeholders’ documents:[63,106].

Strategies promoting long-term participation (maintenance) included

Systematic reviews: [26,47,64,80,93,97].

Training for practitioners

Training for staff in aspects of implementation and facilitation of inter-sectorial collaboration

Systematic reviews: [3,53,59,95]; Position reviews: [8]

Use/integration of existing resources

Resources for implementation specified

Stakeholders’ documents: [62,63,119].

Implementation integrated into existing programs (available for target population)

Systematic reviews: [112]; Stakeholders’ documents: [14,85,118,119].

Ongoing support from support from stakeholders secured

Stakeholders’ documents: [14,45,72,124].

Feasibility

Adoption by target staff, settings, or institutions (representativeness of staff, settings, institutions; exclusion of settings, staff, institutions; characteristics of those who adopted vs those who did not)

Systematic reviews: [39,94,100,117]; Stakeholders’ documents: [44,118].

Feasible/acceptable for providers (fitting their skills; no external specialists needed for implementation), feasible and acceptable for stakeholders, and participants

Systematic reviews: [26,29,39,94,112]; Position reviews: [47,48,78,88].

Maintenance-sustainability

Maintenance (effects maintained over time with institutional support; continuation within the realm of the institution)

Systematic reviews: [39,94,112,117]; Stakeholders’ documents: [62,119].

Mutability (intervention/policy is in the realm of community/target group control)

Stakeholders’ documents: [10,44,62,118,119]; Position reviews:[8,48,88].

Partnership for implementation

Partnership between agencies/organizations to facilitate adoption and implementation (e.g., school, business, transport agencies; inter-sectorial collaboration between stakeholders)

Systematic reviews: [3]; Stakeholders’ documents: [14,43,72,76,124].

Identification of those who are responsible for implementation; training, monitoring and feedback for those responsible for implementation

Stakeholders’ documents: [43,46,62,63,119].

Implementation consistency and adaptation processes

Implementation consistency and adaptations made during delivery assessed

Systematic reviews: [39,94]; Stakeholders’ documents: [45,118,124]; Position reviews: [8].

Adherence to protocol and protocol fidelity monitored

Systematic reviews: [52,59,95,100]; Position reviews: [8].

Transferability

Transferability (interventions/policies can be transferred to other populations, communities, settings, and cultures)

Systematic reviews: [29,112]; Stakeholders’ documents: [10,45,62,119].

Context of transfer and transfer boundaries (including political, social, or economical conditions for transfer)

Stakeholders’ documents: [44,45,119].