Table 2

Criteria to rank likely relevance of study to theory development

High relevance
  • Relates to adults living with and beyond cancer and describes the implementation of a self-management support activity initiated by practitioners or targeting practitioner behaviour change.

  • Relates to supporting people living with and beyond cancer and describes training of practitioners in providing self-management support.

  • Relates to supporting people living with and beyond cancer and includes description of practitioner views and experiences of self-management support.

  • Describes studies on the perspectives of patients, caregivers or managers on practitioner implementation of support of self-management in consultations with people living with and beyond cancer.

Moderate relevance
  • Relates to people living with and beyond cancer and includes description of patient experience of interacting with practitioners supporting self-management.

  • Describes experiences of people living with and beyond cancer who have been provided with self-management support.

  • Describes implementation of practitioner initiated self-management support in chronic diseases (including cancer).

Low relevance
  • Self-management support in people living with and beyond cancer described but involvement of practitioner in its delivery is unclear.

  • Describes implementation of practitioner-led self-management support activity during other stages of the cancer journey (ie, not the survivorship stage).

  • Quantitative data on self-management support intervention.

  • Describes self-management support needs of people living with and beyond cancer.

No relevance
  • Does not meet any of the above criteria.