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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Maturitas. 2015 Aug 12;82(4):336–341. doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2015.08.002

Table 1.

Selection of Studies and Exclusions

Healthy Older Adults (n studies) People with PD (n studies)

Initial Search Results 240 68

Exclusions 229 57

Review articles 28 14
Not conducted in human participants 2 0
Not conducted in older adults/PD 28 2
Protocols or focus group descriptions 11 6
Case studies 3 3
Irrelevant article types* 9 8
No multi-session dance intervention 77 11
Cross-sectional studies 27 0
Single-group study designs 9 7
Participants with specific impairments** 15 0
Meta-analysis 0 1
No measures of non-motor function 19 3
Full text article not available 2 3

Included studies 10 10
*

Irrelevant article types included corrections, commentaries, summaries, and interviews.

**

Five PD, one stroke, one dementia, one multiple sclerosis, one metabolic syndrome, one chronic lower extremity pain, one mixed urinary incontinence, three obesity, and one visual impairment.