A Scoping Review is an initial exploratory search and synthesis of an emerging  research area, or a broad, multifaceted,  or multi-question research topic.
 

Goals/Objectives:

• Characterize  breadth, depth, and nature of research in a topic area
• Identify methodologies or theoretical frameworks
• Reveal gaps in research (precursor for Systematic Review)

A scoping review requires:

• Clear objectives for the study
• Reproducible methodology
• Comprehensive search appropriate for time/scope constraints
• Data extraction and synthesis of the quantity and quality of literature
• Written review reporting characteristics and findings from literature corpus

• Title
• Objectives
• Question(s)
• Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria
  • Population
  • Concept
  • Context
  • Types of evidence source
• Evidence source Details and Characteristics
  • Citation details (author, date, title, journal, volume, issue, pages)
  • County
  • Context
  • Participants (age/sex/number)
• Details/Results extracted from source of evidence

SOURCE: JBI Appendix 11.1 JBI template source of evidence details, characteristics and results extraction instrument