Scoping review stages | Actions taken | Timeline |
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Stage 1. Developing the scoping review | Develop scoping review questions, aim, inclusion and exclusion criteria, search strategy and draw up a protocol. Prisma-E guidelines are followed | 4 – 25 February 2020 |
Stage 2. Defining and aligning the search strings, key, and index words | Iterative interaction with scoping aim, databases, and literature. Defining, test running, correcting, and finalising the search strings | 26 February – 10 March 2020 |
Stage 3. Search the evidence | Searched were run on the following data bases: PubMed / MEDLINE, Scopus / Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO via OVID and Web of Science | 11 March – 17 April 2020 |
Stage 4. Study selection | Screening of 20 articles by the full research team led to confirmation of exclusion-inclusion criteria Thereafter, title and abstract screening, and then full text screening took place. During each screening stage, each article was reviewed by two authors. Conflicts were resolved through discussion between the research pair, or a third researcher if consensus was not reached | 7 April – 23 November 2020 |
Stage 5. Data Extraction and Charting | Data was extracted, using a custom-made template that focuses on the aims of the review and PROGRESS-Plus equity framework characteristics [Cochrane Methods, 2019]. Charted data was extracted into Excel | 16 October – 23 November 2020 |
Stage 6. Summarizing and interpreting the data | Quantitative data analysed using SPSS descriptive statistics Qualitative data is extracted, and data is imported into an open-source data analysis tool | 18 January 2020 – 15 February 2021 |
Stage 7. Interpreting and dissemination of the results | The results were interpreted, written into a scoping review journal article, and submitted for publication to a peer review journal | 11 March 2021 – 12 November 2021 |