The overall summaries of each subgroup can then be inspected for evidence of variation in the effects of the intervention, which would suggest that the stratifying characteristic is an important source of heterogeneity and may moderate treatment efficacy [ 43].
Although efficacy research maximizes the likelihood of observing an intervention effect if one exists, effectiveness research accounts for external patient-, provider-, and system-level factors that may moderate an intervention's effect.
In the analysis, we will adjust for other patient characteristics that may moderate the intervention effect or reduce unexplained variability including gender, age, baseline function score, BMI, depression, anxiety, or social support.
Within this issue, you will find evidence of how mental health issues impact physical activity behavior change processes as well as examples of how context and person factors may moderate physical activity intervention efficacy amongst these populations.
This difference may reflect differential engagement with the topic of bowel cancer screening and this may moderate the impact of any intervention.
Additional exploratory analyses will examine the role of selected factors that may moderate the relationship between the intervention and the 5A score: continuity of care, patient socio-demographic variables, patient BMI, baseline health, health behaviors, health literacy, and competing demands.
As a result, the synthesis focuses on building a greater understanding of the changes in day-to-day auditing, the consequences of such changes, and interventions that may moderate the challenges encountered in geographically distributed audit arrangements.
A strength of the current trial is that we assess a wide range of variables that may moderate the effect of the OT intervention [ 54].
The studies identified used a range of behavior change theories and behavior change techniques that may moderate the effectiveness of the behavioral interventions.
Imagery ability will be measured at baseline as it may moderate the effectiveness of the mental imagery intervention and should therefore be included as a potential covariate.
