Exclusion Criteria
Sample	Children (<18 years)
	No diagnosis of RA
Phenomenon of interest	Studies that are not qualitative in nature
	Do not focus on lived experience or address the phenomenon of interest, that is self‐management or self‐care.
	Do not focus on the person with RA specifically (eg experience of spouse; experience of health‐care provider/ clinician).
	Do not address the disease area of interest specifically or are ambiguous, that is juvenile arthritis, including JIA and JRA, chronic inflammatory arthritis, chronic illness or disease, chronic pain, chronic fatigue, etc
Design, evaluation, research type	Any perspectives other than people with RA.
	Any quantitative study (protocols, testing measures, RCT, non‐RCT, clinical studies, for example drug efficacy, observational, cohort, case control).
	Studies that do not state or describe a qualitative method of data analysis.
	Non‐empirical articles including opinion pieces, commentaries, theoretical articles and treatment guideline documents.
	Personal accounts that do not employ qualitative methods of data collection and analysis.
	Grey literature/ non–peer‐reviewed works, including book chapters, policy reports, technical reports, short reports, conference proceedings and reports, dissertations, commentaries/ editorials.
	Dissertations/theses/conference proceedings/published abstracts—however, attempts will be made to source full‐length articles if abstracts are otherwise eligible.
	Secondary studies (ie systematic reviews, meta‐analysis, meta‐ethnography, qualitative evidence syntheses).