Source	Search strategy	Hits retrieved
1. CENTRAL (The Cochrane Library) http://crso.cochrane.org/SearchSimple.php (date of most recent search: 8 December 2022)	#1 MESH DESCRIPTOR Dancing EXPLODE ALL TREES 173 #2 MESH DESCRIPTOR Dance Therapy EXPLODE ALL TREES 82 #3 danc*:TI,AB,KY 1060 #4 DTM:TI,AB,KY 48 #5 ("authentic movement*"):TI,AB,KY 1 #6 ("movement therap*"):TI,AB,KY 845 #7 ("movement psychot*"):TI,AB,KY 7 #8 ("body psychot*"):TI,AB,KY 28 #9 #1 OR #2 OR #3 OR #4 OR #5 OR #6 OR #7 OR #8 1926 #10 MESH DESCRIPTOR Dementia EXPLODE ALL TREES 5892 #11 MESH DESCRIPTOR Delirium EXPLODE ALL TREES 780 #12 MESH DESCRIPTOR Wernicke Encephalopathy EXPLODE ALL TREES 4 #13 MESH DESCRIPTOR Neurocognitive Disorders EXPLODE ALL TREES 11163 #14 dement*:TI,AB,KY 12889 #15 alzheimer*:TI,AB,KY 11127 #16 (lewy* adj2 bod*):TI,AB,KY 395 #17 (chronic adj2 cerebrovascular):TI,AB,KY 113 #18 ("organic brain disease" or "organic brain syndrome"):TI,AB,KY 137 #19 ("benign senescent forgetfulness"):TI,AB,KY 2 #20 (cerebr* adj2 deteriorat*):TI,AB,KY 10 #21 (cerebral* adj2 insufficient*):TI,AB,KY 1 #22 ("major neurocognitive disorder*"):TI,AB,KY 33 #23 deliri*:TI,AB,KY 3475 #24 ("normal pressure hydrocephalus" and "shunt*"):TI,AB,KY 75 #25 (pick* adj2 disease):TI,AB,KY 73 #26 (creutzfeldt or jcd or cjd):TI,AB,KY 54 #27 huntington*:TI,AB,KY 666 #28 binswanger*:TI,AB,KY 6 #29 korsako*:TI,AB,KY 68 #30 #10 OR #11 OR #12 OR #13 OR #14 OR #15 OR #16 OR #17 OR #18 OR #19 OR #20 OR #21 OR #22 OR #23 OR #24 OR #25 OR #26 OR #27 OR #28 OR #29 27503 #31 #9 AND #30 85 #32 01/01/2016 TO 11/03/2021:CD 867486 #33 #31 AND #32 71	March 2016: 2 March 2021: 71 Feb 2022: 10 Dec 2022:
2. MEDLINE In‐process and other non‐indexed citations and MEDLINE 1950‐present (Ovid SP) (date of most recent search: 8 December 2022)	1 exp Dancing/ 2 exp Dance Therapy/ 3 danc*.ti,ab. 4 DTM.ti,ab. 5 "authentic movement*".ti,ab. 6 "movement therap*".ti,ab. 7 "movement psychot*".ti,ab. 8 "body psychot*".ti,ab. 9 or/1‐8 10 exp Dementia/ 11 Delirium/ 12 Wernicke Encephalopathy/ 13 Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders/ 14 dement*.mp. 15 alzheimer*.mp. 16 (lewy* adj2 bod*).mp. 17 (chronic adj2 cerebrovascular).mp. 18 ("organic brain disease" or "organic brain syndrome").mp. 19 "benign senescent forgetfulness".mp. 20 (cerebr* adj2 deteriorat*).mp. 21 (cerebral* adj2 insufficient*).mp. 22 "major neurocognitive disorder*".ti,ab. 23 deliri*.mp. 24 ("normal pressure hydrocephalus" and "shunt*").mp. 25 (pick* adj2 disease).mp. 26 (creutzfeldt or jcd or cjd).mp. 27 huntington*.mp. 28 binswanger*.mp. 29 korsako*.mp. 30 or/10‐29 31 9 and 30	March 2016: 7 March 2021: 66 Feb 2022: 25 Dec 2022: 33
3. Embase (OVID) 1974 to present (date of most recent search: 8 December 2022)	1 exp dancing/ 2 exp dance therapy/ 3 danc*.ti,ab. 4 DTM.ti,ab. 5 "authentic movement*".ti,ab. 6 "movement therap*".ti,ab. 7 "movement psychot*".ti,ab. 8 "body psychot*".ti,ab. 9 or/1‐8 10 exp dementia/ 11 dement*.ti,ab. 12 alzheimer*.ti,ab. 13 (lewy* adj2 bod*).ti,ab. 14 deliri*.ti,ab. 15 (cerebr* adj2 deteriorat*).ti,ab. 16 (cerebral* adj2 insufficient*).ti,ab. 17 (creutzfeldt or jcd or cjd).ti,ab. 18 huntington*.mp. 19 "cognit* impair*".ti,ab. 20 or/10‐19 21 9 and 20	March 2016: 28 March 2021: 219 Feb 2022: 73 Dec 2022: 122
4. PsycINFO (OVID) (date of most recent search: 8 December 2022)	1 exp Dance/ 2 exp Dance Therapy/ 3 danc*.ti,ab. 4 DTM.ti,ab. 5 "authentic movement*".ti,ab. 6 "movement therap*".ti,ab. 7 "movement psychot*".ti,ab. 8 "body psychot*".ti,ab. 9 or/1‐8 10 exp Vascular Dementia/ or exp Dementia/ or exp Semantic Dementia/ or exp Presenile Dementia/ or exp Dementia with Lewy Bodies/ or exp Senile Dementia/ 11 exp Cognition/ 12 dement*.ti,ab. 13 alzheimer*.ti,ab. 14 "cognit* impair*".ti,ab. 15 or/10‐14 16 9 and 15	March 2016: 21 March 2021: 99 Feb 2022: 29 Dec 2022: 27
5. CINAHL (EBSCOhost) (date of most recent search: 8 December 2022)	S17 S10 AND S16 S16 S11 OR S12 OR S13 OR S14 OR S15 S15 MH “Cognition Disorders” S14 TX “cognit* impair*” S13 TX Alzheimer* S12 TX dement* S11 (MH “Dementia+”) OR (MH “Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders”) S10 S1 OR S2 OR S3 OR S4 OR S5 OR S6 OR S7 OR S8 OR S9 S9 MH "Aerobic Dancing" S8 TX "body psychot*" S7 TX "movement psychot*" S6 TX "movement therap*" S5 TX "authentic movement*" S4 TX DTM S3 TX danc* S2 (MH "Dance Therapy") S1 (MH "Dancing+")	March 2016: 13 March 2021: 113 Feb 2022: 34 Dec 2022: 23
6. Web of Science – core collection (Clarivate) (date of most recent search: 8 December 2022)	TOPIC: (danc* OR "movement therapy" OR salsa OR jive OR tango OR ballroom OR "ball room") AND TOPIC: (dement* OR alzheimer* OR FTLD OR FTD OR "primary progressive aphasia" OR "progressive non‐fluent aphasia" OR "frontotemporal lobar degeneration" OR "frontolobar degeneration" OR "frontal lobar degeneration" OR "pick* disease" OR "lewy bod*" OR "mild cognit* impair*" OR MCI) AND TOPIC: (randomly OR randomised OR randomized OR RCT OR "controlled trial" OR "double blind" OR "single blind")	March 2016: 9 March 2021: 46 Feb 2022: 18 Dec 2022: 20
7. LILACS (BIREME) (date of most recent search: 8 December 2022)	dance OR dancing OR "movement therapy" OR baile OR dança [Words] and dementia OR demencia OR demência OR alzheimer OR alzheimers OR alzheimer's [Words]	March 2016: 4 March 2021: 13 Feb 2022: 1 Dec 2022: 0
8. ClinicalTrials.gov (www.clinicaltrials.gov) (date of most recent search: 8 December 2022)	alzheimer OR alzheimers OR dementia OR (major neurocognitive disorder) | dance OR dancing OR movement therapy	March 2016: 0 March 2021: 0 Feb 2022: 3 Dec 2022: 4
9. ICTRP (date of most recent search: 8 December 2022)	[Condition:] alzheimer OR alzheimers OR dementia OR (major neurocognitive disorder) [AND Intervention:] dance OR dancing OR movement therapy	March 2016: 5 March 2021: 0 Feb 2022: 0 Dec 2022: 3
10. CDCIG specialised register (CRS web) (date of most recent search: 8 December 2022)	Dance OR Dancing OR “movement therapy”	March 2016: 4 March 2021: 46 Feb 2022: 7 Dec 2022: 15
TOTAL before de‐duplication		March 2016: 89 March 2021: 673 Feb 2022: 200 Dec 2022: 288
TOTAL after de‐duplication		March 2016: March 2021: 421 Feb 2022: 126 Dec 2022: 204