The architecture and effect of participation: a systematic review of community participation for communicable disease control and elimination. Implications for malaria elimination

Table 1 Factors influencing community participation and the percentage of included paper in which these factors were coded.

Participation	Influencing factors (proposed by literature referenced)	% of included papers in which factor was coded (number)
Individual level influences	Knowledge and perceptions of disease [34, 130]	82% (49)
	Vulnerability versus resilience [30, 95, 131, 132]	45% (27)
	Stigma [34, 132]	15% (9)
	Incentives [132, 133]	72% (43)
	Acceptability of intervention or programme [134]	60% (36)
Household level influences	Gender roles & power relationships [34, 135]	22% (13)
	Cultural norms & social mechanisms [24, 30, 34]	45% (28)
	Access [34, 136]	70% (42)
	Urban versus rural implementation [30]	10% (6)
Community level influences	Community characteristics [24, 30, 95, 130, 132, 133, 137]	43% (26)
	Disease epidemiology and complexity of intervention [130]	40% (24)
	Process by which communities are engaged to participate [24, 30, 137]	63% (38)
	Congruence of external targets and local priorities [30]	52% (31)
Government/civil society level influences	Political environment [30, 132]	13% (8)
	Government advocacy and support [24, 30, 130, 132, 137]	47% (28)
	Health authority commitment to primary health care [30, 130]	50% (30)
	Decentralisation of power and resources & use of community assets [24, 30, 130, 132]	82% (49)
	Multisectoral collaboration and integration of programme into broader development goals [30, 130]	67% (40)
	Financial and human resources [24, 130]	82% (49)
	Techno-financial support & implementation style of locally embedded development agencies [137]	22% (13)

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