Table 2.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

• Residential or nursing homes • Adults living in the above accommodation type • All types/methods of research or publication, including grey literature, apart from dissertations/theses • Studies relating to pain assessment and/or management • Outcomes relating to pain management effectiveness (e.g. pain level alteration, QoL, well-being outcomes, mood, behaviour, barriers or facilitators etc.) • Any geographical location • Publication within last 10 years (to relevance to current practice)

• People living at home, in hostels (with minimal supervision or care), in sheltered housing, hospices, or under long stay hospital care • Dissertations/theses (due to typical length, and resource limitations) • Publications or reports where an English language translation is not available • Studies that do not focus on pain assessment or management (e.g. prevalence of pain only) • Outcomes that do not relate to pain management • Studies or reports without outcomes (e.g. protocols) • Studies examining pain assessment tool development or validity as sole focus

QoL = quality of life