The role of Remote Clinical Care in Health Promotion: a scoping review protocol

Objective This scoping review aims to understand what opportunities exist to provide health promotion to the adult population within remote clinical care.

With increasing demand for healthcare in an environment of overstretched healthcare resources, and the legal responsibility on public organisations within Wales to improve long-term health, all opportunities to promote health should be considered. The consolidation of remote clinical care in most western healthcare services may provide such potential opportunities. Inclusion criteria The inclusion criteria will incorporate adults contacting remote clinical care services that provide health promotion. It will exclude any sources not written in English, restrict articles to post-2013, and exclude articles that focus entirely on mental well-being or individuals under 16.

Searches will be undertaken in Medline (PubMed), CINAHL (EBSCOhost), Embase, Web of Science, Scopus and British Nursing databases to identify published studies. Searches will also be undertaken on Google Scholar, Google, ProQuest Dissertations, and Theses Global, as well as direct contact with NHS 111 (or equivalent) service providers within the UK to identify any grey literature. Searches will also include bibliographic searches of published studies. The JBI methodology for Scoping Reviews will be followed, and data extraction, analysis, and presentation of the results will follow the laid-out principles. As this review forms part of a wider Doctorate in Public Health submission, data screening and selection will be undertaken by the primary author only, and supervision for the doctorate will be undertaken by the other three authors. Review registration number: Open Science Framework: osf.io/gqh83 Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Funding Statement This study did not receive any funding Author Declarations I confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained. Yes I confirm that all necessary patient/participant consent has been obtained and the appropriate institutional forms have been archived, and that any patient/participant/sample identifiers included were not known to anyone (e.g., hospital staff, patients or participants themselves) outside the research group so cannot be used to identify individuals. Yes I understand that all clinical trials and any other prospective interventional studies must be registered with an ICMJE-approved registry, such as ClinicalTrials.gov. I confirm that any such study reported in the manuscript has been registered and the trial registration ID is provided (note: if posting a prospective study registered retrospectively, please provide a statement in the trial ID field explaining why the study was not registered in advance). Yes I have followed all appropriate research reporting guidelines, such as any relevant EQUATOR Network research reporting checklist(s) and other pertinent material, if applicable. Yes Data Availability All data produced in the present work are contained in the manuscript