Use of guidelines, checklists, frameworks, and recommendations in behavioral intervention preliminary studies and associations with reporting comprehensiveness: a scoping bibliometric review

Table 4 Feasibility-related characteristics of included preliminary studies (N = 367)

Feasibility-related characteristics	Included sample		Never Citers		Indirect Citers		Citers
	N = 367		N = 129		N = 71		N = 167
	N	Percent (%)	N	Percent (%)	N	Percent (%)	N	Percent (%)
Feasibility indicators
Recruitment	281	76.6	91	70.5	47	66.2	143	85.6
Retention	278	75.8	80	62.0	51	71.8	147	88.0
Acceptability	262	71.4	64	49.6	50	70.4	148	88.6
Adverse events	163	44.4	42	32.6	28	39.4	93	55.7
Attendance	66	17.9	11	8.5	8	11.3	47	28.1
Compliance	61	16.6	18	13.9	14	19.7	29	17.4
Cost	39	10.6	6	4.7	3	4.2	30	17.9
Data collection	56	15.3	9	6.9	5	7.0	42	25.2
Treatment fidelity	136	37.1	20	15.5	20	28.2	96	57.5
Total outcomes reported
0	57	15.5	40	31.0	12	16.9	5	2.9
1	75	20.4	39	30.2	20	28.2	16	9.6
2	93	25.3	27	20.9	24	33.8	42	25.2
3	71	19.4	17	13.2	3	4.2	51	30.5
4 or more	71	19.4	6	4.7	12	16.9	53	31.7
Feasibility-related characteristics
Title includes feasibility-related language	279	76.0	93	72.0	46	64.8	140	83.8
Feasibility mentioned in purpose statement	274	74.7	74	57.4	46	64.8	154	92.2
Efficacy mentioned in purpose statement	204	55.6	81	62.8	40	56.3	83	49.7
Progression criteria provided	45	12.3	2	1.6	2	1.8	41	24.6
Statistical testing for efficacy	246	67.0	112	86.8	50	70.4	84	50.3
Feasibility framed as primary outcome	267	72.8	70	54.3	44	61.9	153	91.6
Feasibility of the study mentioned in conclusion^a	180	74.7	62	62.0	45	76.3	73	89.0
Efficacy of the study mentioned in conclusion^a	134	55.6	64	64.0	32	54.2	38	46.3
Caution advised regarding efficacy^a	130	53.9	58	58.0	36	61.0	36	43.9
Future testing suggested^a	216	89.6	95	95.0	53	89.8	68	82.9

^aProtocols were not included in this analysis. See Table 1 for total number of protocols in each citation category

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