Exploring the evidence on music-based interventions for executive functioning and emotional wellbeing in stroke rehabilitation: a scoping review

Abstract

To identify studies to include or consider for this scoping review, the review team worked with medical librarians (TN, RF) to develop detailed search strategies for each database. The medical librarians (TN, RF) developed the search for PubMed (NLM) and translated the search for every database searched. The databases included in this search are PubMed (NLM), APA PsycInfo (EbscoHost) and CINAHL (EbscoHost) using a combination of keywords and subject headings. A grey literature search included a clinical trials registry (clinicaltrials.gov), ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Global, and the TRIP Pro medical database (tripdatabase.com). The search was limited to adults, human studies and study types (randomized controlled trials, clinical controlled trials, and feasibility studies). All final searches were performed on October 25, 2022 by the librarians and were fully reported (TN, RF). The search resulted in 7,121 studies and 1,639 duplicate studies were found and omitted by a librarian (TN) using the EndNote 20 duplicate identification strategy. This resulted in 5,319 records to screen from databases or registers and 163 records to screen from other methods, resulting in a total of 5,482 records. Studies were screened by title and abstract by two blinded and independent reviewers. If a tiebreaker was needed, a third reviewer was called in. This process was repeated for full text article screening and article selection.