Inclusion and exclusion criteria
| Domain | Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria | Review question |
| Population | People with all types of dementia with no restriction to severity, gender, age, ethnic background, diagnostic procedures and no of study participants | People with mild cognitive impairment and mixed samples with less than 75% people with dementia (if the results are not reported separately) | 1/2 |
| Health professionals and/or family members of people with dementia and/or nursing home managers with no restriction to number of study participants (if implementation facilitators and barriers are reported belonging to a specific nurse-led physical activity intervention for people with dementia in nursing homes) | – | 2 | |
| Setting | Nursing homes and other institutionalised care settings (eg,care homes, homes for the aged, residential-aged care facilities) | Other institutionalised care facilities (eg, assisted living facilities, day care) or non-institutionalised care | 1/2 |
| Intervention | Physical activities (eg, exercises, walking, dancing) initiated and/or conducted by nurses, or nursing or healthcare assistants (nurse-led) | Passive movement therapies | 1/2 |
| Study aim | Assessing the effects/effectiveness/efficacy/feasibility of nurse-led physical activities | – | 1 |
| Description of intervention design and modelling or developing nurse-led physical activities | – | 1 | |
| Determining facilitators and/or barriers to implement nurse-led physical activities | – | 2 | |
| Control | Every and no control type | – | 1 |
| Outcome | Physical outcomes (eg, physical functioning (lower and upper body), activities of daily living, falls) reported in the title and/or abstract of a reference | – | 1 |
| Phenomena of interest | Implementation facilitators and barriers (eg, acceptance, feasibility, resources) reported belonging to a specific and evaluated nurse-led physical activity intervention for people with dementia in nursing homes | – | 2 |
| Study design | Experimental and quasi-experimental studies (controlled clinical trials, before-and-after study) | Reviews | 1 |
| All primary study designs (eg, observational studies, interventional studies, qualitative studies, mixed-methods studies, process evaluations) | Reviews | 2 | |
| Publication year | No restriction | – | 1/2 |
| Publication language | English, French, German | – | 1/2 |
| Publication type | Any published reports of empirical studies (eg, journal articles, conference proceedings, preprints) | Abstract-only publications, editorials, commentaries, letters, study protocols, theses, registry entries, books | 1/2 |
| Online and offline material associated with the intervention | – | 1 |