Preliminary eligibility criteria guiding study selection
| Eligibility criteria | ||
| Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria | |
| Source | Peer-reviewed journals Published in English, Norwegian, Swedish or Danish | Grey literature |
| Population | People with dementia (eg, patients, service users or residents) | Mixed samples (eg, mild cognitive impairment/cognitive impairment + dementia) Dementia in people with Downs syndrome Cognitive impairment not caused by dementia |
| Context | Nursing home | |
| Concept | Literature that describes: How healthcare professionals (including nurses, nurse assistants and doctors) recognise, assess and evaluate pain in the population Whether and/or how self-reporting of pain is integrated in pain assessment processes in the population How healthcare professionals can support people with dementia in self-reporting of pain | |
| Study design | All study designs | Editorials, commentaries or letters, discussion papers, opinion papers and non-empirical studies |