Table 1.
Results from the literature search and screening process
| Search Results | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Academic Databases | ASD Group | ID Group | |
| 1. | PubMed/MEDLINE | 350 | 275 |
| 2. | Embase | 540 | 261 |
| 3. | CINAHL Plus | 197 | 220 |
| 4. | PEDro | 1 | 0 |
| 5. | Scopus | 1018 | – |
| 6. | Web of Science | 618 | – |
| Subtotal | 2,724 | 756 | |
| Search Engine | |||
| 1. | Google Scholar (limited to 250, as suggested by the WHO) | 250 | 250 |
| Subtotal | 250 | 250 | |
| Guideline Databases | |||
| 1. | Scotland's Guidelines International Network (G-I-N) | 23 | 0 |
| 2. | United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) | 36 | 18 |
| 3. | Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) | 1 | 4 |
| 4. | Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) | 16 | 14 |
| 5. | Canadian Medical Association (CMA) Infobase: Clinical Practice Guidelines | 0 | 1 |
| 6. | New Zealand Guidelines Group (NZGG) | 7 | 75 |
| 7. | United States’ National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) | 47 | 34 |
| 8. | United Kingdom's eGuidelines | 6 | 5 |
| 9. | United Kingdom's National Library for Health (NLH) Guidelines Database | 190 | 87 |
| 10. | France's L'Agence Nationale d'Accréditation et d’ Évaluation en Santé (ANAES) | 3 | – |
| Subtotal | 329 | 238 | |
| Professional Rehabilitation Society Websites | |||
| 1. American Academy of Neurology (https://www.aan.com/) 2. American Academy of Pediatrics (https://www.aap.org/) 3. American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (https://www.aacap.org/) 4. American Psychiatric Association (https://www.psychiatry.org/) 5. American Occupational Therapy Association (https://www.aota.org/) 6. Society for Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics (http://www.sdbp.org/) 7. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (https://www.asha.org/) |
0 0 1 0 1 0 28 |
0 2 0 0 0 0 34 |
|
| Subtotal | 30 | 36 | |
| Grand Total | 3333 | 1280 | |
| Screening Results | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ASD Group | ID Group | ||
| Total after duplicate removal | 1952 | 1027 | |
| Total after title and abstract screening | 29 | 5 | |
| Total after full-text screening | 8 | 4 | |
| Total after AGREE-II tool | 4 | 2 | |
NOTE. – indicates the search was not performed.
Abbreviations: CINAHL, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health; PEDro, Physiotherapy Evidence Database.