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Table 3 Summary quality assessment of included studies

From: Key stakeholders’ experiences of respite services for people with dementia and their perspectives on respite service development: a qualitative systematic review

First author, year

Phenomena under study

Theoretical framework/orientation

Setting

Sampling/Recruitment

Depth/Breadth of Perspective

Ethics

Data collection

Data analysis

Positionality/Reflexivity

Policy/Practice Implications

Quality assessment

Brataas, 2010 [31]

X

Medium-High

Cahill, 2003 [32]

X

X

X

X

X

Low-Medium

de Jong, 2009 [30]

X

Medium-High

Donath, 2009 [41]

X

X

X

X

Medium

Donath, 2011 [40]

X

X

X

X

Medium

Gilmour, 2002 [36]

X

X

X

Medium

Gústafsdóttir, 2014 [22]

X

X

X

X

Medium

Hochgraeber, 2015 [27]

X

X

Medium-High

Holm, 2003 [29]

X

X

X

X

X

X

Low-Medium

Huang, 2016 [28]

X

Medium-High

Jansen, 2009 [26]

X

Medium-High

Kirkley, 2011 [38]

X

Medium-High

McGrath, 2000 [34]

X

X

X

Medium

O’Connell, 2012 [20]

X

X

X

Medium

Parahoo, 2002 [33]

X

X

X

X

Medium

Perry, 2001 [42]

X

X

X

X

Medium

Phillipson, 2011(IH) [23]

X

Medium-High

Phillipson, 2011(RR) [24]

X

Medium-High

Phillipson, 2012(DC) [25]

X

Medium-High

Robinson, 2012 [21]

X

Medium-High

Strang, 2000 [37]

X

X

X

X

Low-Medium

Upton, 2005 [35]

X

X

X

X

Medium

Woolrych, 2013 [39]

X

X

X

Medium

  1. X = Not Clear/Not Methodologically Sound; √ = Clear/Methodologically Sound
  2. Quality assessment categories: Low-Medium = 6 ≥ X, Medium 3-5X, Medium-High 2 ≤ X