| AD | Alzheimer’s disease |
| BPSD | Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia |
| CI | Confidence interval |
| CMA | Comprehensive Meta-Analysis |
| IQR | Interquartile range |
| MM | Method of moments |
| PRISMA | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses |
| PROSPERO | International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews |
| RCT | Randomized controlled trial |
| RoB 2 | Risk of Bias 2 tool |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| SE | Standard error |
| SMD | Standardized mean difference |