Table 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria	Rationale
Qualitative studies focused on personal narratives and the perspectives of people with COPD	The aim is to integrate and reinterpret qualitative findings
Studies discussing people with COPD	To provide specificity of the long‐term condition and the nature of the types of interventional studies
Studies addressing the broad concepts of socially supportive social networks in COPD self‐management or engagement and social participation in network support	To understand participation in social supportive self‐care or self‐management support
Fulfils quality criteria 29	Guidelines for quality appraisal to ensure that the methods and analysis of the selected studies were rigorous.
Exclusion	Rationale
Non‐English Language	Unable to interpret or integrate
Focused on a nuanced area of COPD care delivery (pulmonary rehabilitation or oxygen therapy)	Interventional specificity
Focused on a single self‐management intervention (a specific eHealth programme)	Interventional specificity
Not disease‐specific	Not specific to the investigational population
If the studies are from the perspective of health professionals or carers alone	Not a personal narrative from a person with COPD

Abbreviation: COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.