Table A1.
Description of methods used for inclusion and exclusion of studies
| Selection criteria | Inclusion | Exclusion |
|---|---|---|
| Publication year | After 2000 | Before 2000 |
| Publication status | Completed and on‐going | None |
| Study design | The EGM will include systematic reviews of effects of interventions and effectiveness studies that used either: (a) randomised experimental design, or (b) rigorous quasi‐experimental design, (c) natural experiments, (d) regression discontinuity, (e) propensity score matching, (f) difference in difference, (g) instrumental variables, (h) other matching design, and (i) single subject design | Literature reviews, non‐effectiveness studies, case studies and qualitative studies |
| Population | People with disability, and/or their family, their caregivers, their community living in low‐ and middle‐income countries | People with disabilities and/or their family, their caregivers, their community living in high‐income countries |
| Disability is defined as impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions denoting the negative aspects of the interaction between an individual (with a health condition) and that individual's contextual factors (environmental and personal factors) (WHO, 2011, 2001) | ||
| For primary studies we will include participants from low‐ and middle‐income countries only, as this was the original commitment of CBR (Helander, 1989) | ||
| Interventions | A CBR programme is formed by one or more activities in one or more of the five components (health, education, livelihood, social, and empowerment). List of activities for each element of the five components are presented within the CBR Guidelines under the section “Suggested activities” (WHO, 2010). The following activities are here given as examples:• Health: training PWD in the use of assistive devices; providing information to PWD and their family or their caregivers about time and location of activities for screening health conditions and impairments associated with disabilities.• Education: providing education and training for families or caregivers of PWD; installing ramps in schools to make them accessible to PWD using wheelchairs.• Livelihood: linking the jobseeker with disability to existing support services; advocating before relevant public and private agencies to ensure accessible housing for PWD.• Social: converting institutions for PWD in rehabilitation centres; providing information to PWD about the sports opportunities available within the community.• Empowerment: helping PWD running meetings of new self‐help group; involving disabled's people organisations in CBR planning, implementation, and monitoring | Interventions not focused on people with disabilities. We will also exclude studies that deals temporary or reversible form of disability for examples, maternal depression or back pain |
| Outcome | We will use the CBR framework for outcomes | None |
| Quality | We will not restrict based on quality | None |