Giving equal weighting to the interventions is an approximate way to establish the score, as recommending counselling is probably a weaker intervention than direct counselling.
There is no evidence that the weaker intervention (Basic Feedback) led to improved patients' experiences, or that nurses pay attention to patient survey results when they are only in printed form.
Therefore, in LMICs where health system governance is weak, interventions to strengthen local governments and support for community engagement should be incorporated among interventions to improve the retention of rural health workers (4, 55).
While the identified evidence base for interventions targeting interruptions to nurses is weak, interventions aimed at reducing interruptions should not be dismissed until appropriate controlled trials have been performed to assess their value.
As compared with actual experience and behavioural experiments, education seems to be a weak intervention for changing attitudes and beliefs with cLBP [40].
Physical exercise may also be considered a "weak" intervention that require extra-long follow-up.
The majority of health promotion studies addressing osteoporosis prevention suffer from weak intervention designs and lack of methodological rigour.
But a checklist per se is a weak intervention [ 47] because it does not address barriers specific to the setting in which it is to be used.
The relatively weak intervention effects shown in Scenario 1 of the order of 0.2 SD do not appear to have an effect on population levels or social inequalities in educational achievement in these data.
The external validity of the articles were scored ranging from 1 (very strong external validity supported by a large study population, random sample, and explicit analysis of context and intervention factors for which generalization is possible) to 4 (weaker external validity based on weak or selective reference population, and weak intervention and context reference).
Thus, the existing weaker syphilis intervention efforts could be strengthened, which ultimately diminish the impact of the disease.
