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Table 1 Stages, actions, and timeline of the scoping review

From: The health equity characteristics of research exploring the unmet community mobility needs of older adults: a scoping review

Scoping review stages

Actions taken

Timeline

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