Table 1.

Selection criteria

	Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Design and report	Qualitative studies Reports lived experience of knee osteoarthritis Full text article published in peer-reviewed journal Primary research	Questionnaires/surveys Non-English language Single case studies Secondary analysis of qualitative data such as a systematic review
Participants	Knee osteoarthritis Perceptions of people diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis, and their carers May include other conditions providing perceptions about knee osteoarthritis are reported separately	Participants not identified as having knee osteoarthritis (eg, knee pain, anterior cruciate ligament injury)
Interventions	No intervention May include studies exploring perceptions about management, such as knee replacement, provided experiences about living with knee osteoarthritis are reported separately	Explored experiences of patients having participated in interventions Explored experiences about perioperative management of knee replacement Explored attitudes about the decision to proceed to total knee replacement