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Table 1 Search terms

From: The experience of lived space in persons with dementia: a systematic meta-synthesis

Population

Experience

MeSH terms:

MeSH terms:

 • Dementia (CINAHL, Embase, Medline, PsycINFO)

 • Life experience (CINAHL, PsycINFO)

 • Dementia, presenile (CINAHL, Embase, Medline, PsycINFO)

 • Experience (Embase)

 • Dementia, senile (CINAHL, Embase, Medline, PsycINFO)

 • Personal experience (Embase)

 • Alzheimer’s disease (CINAHL, Embase, Medline, PsycINFO)

 

 • Dementia, multi-infarct (CINAHL, Embase, Medline, PsycINFO)

 

 • Lewy Body Disease (CINAHL, Embase, Medline, PsycINFO)

 

 • Dementia, vascular (CINAHL, Medline, PsycINFO)

 

 • Dementia, frontotemporal (Embase)

 

Text words:

Text words:

 • Dement*

 • Personal experience*

 • Presenile dement*

 • Experience*

 • Senile dement*

 • Lived experience*

 • Alzheimer*

 • Life experience*

 • Multi-infarct dement*

 • Patient experience*

 • Lewy Body dement*

 • Subjective experience*

 • Vascular dement*

 • First-person

 • Frontotemporal dement*

 • **

All words combined with OR

All words combined with OR

 

**Ageline had no exckusion parametes for clinical queries, and we had to search for study design: nursing methodologies OR case study OR constant comparison OR content analysis OR descriptive study OR discourse analysis OR ethnography OR exploratory OR feminist OR grounded theory OR hermeneutic OR interview OR narrative OR naturalistic OR participant observation OR phenomenology OR qualitative research OR qualitative methods OR qualitative study.