Barriers and facilitators to adherence to walking group exercise in older people living with dementia in the community: a systematic review

Table 1 Quality assessment of the qualitative studies

Reference	Theoretical approach		Study design	Data collection	Validity			Analysis						Ethics
Reference	1.1	1.2	2.1	3.1	4.1	4.2	4.3	5.1	5.2	5.3	5.4	5.5	5.6	6.1
Bantry Whyte and Montgomery, 2015 [35]	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Phinney et al., 2016 [36]	+	+	?	?	+	+	+	?	?	+	+	+	+	+
Van Alphen et al., 2016 [34]	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
King et al., 2017 [37]	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+

+ yes/good; no/not good;? not sure/dubious
+ yes/good; no/not good; ? not sure/dubious
1. Theoretical approach
1.1 Is a qualitative approach appropriate? 1.2 Is the study clear in what it seeks to do?
2. Study design
2.1 How defensible/rigorous is the research design/methodology?
3. Data collection
3.1 How well was the data collection carried out?
4. Validity
4.1 Is the role of the researcher clearly described?; 4.2 Is the context clearly described?; 4.3 Were the methods reliable?
5. Analysis
5.1 Is the data analysis sufficiently rigorous?; 5.2 Are the data “rich”?; 5.3 Is the analysis reliable?; 5.4 Are the findings convincing?; 5.5 Are the findings relevant to the aims of the study?; 5.6 Are the conclusions adequate?
6. Ethics
6.1 How clear and coherent is the reporting of ethical consideration?

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