Identifying relevant studies
Creators: name: Mwaka, Claudel R.
name: Routhier, François
name: Gagnon, Martine
name: Best, Krista L.
name: Cunningham, Claudia
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2022
Subjects: accessibility
disabilities
experience
public transport
satisfaction
scoping review
self-efficacy

description: An extensive literature search of both peer-reviewed and grey literature databases will be performed to identify relevant information about the topic. To conduct this research robustly, we will seek the collaboration of a librarian (MG) who specializes in the use of databases related to rehabilitation and accessibility of public transportation by people with disabilities. Given that public transport accessibility should consider several fields such as biomedical, transportation, psychological, and human and social sciences, the literature search will be conducted in five relevant databases including MEDLINE, TRANSPORTATION DATABASE, PsycINFO (from Ovid platform), EMBASE, and WEB OF SCIENCE from 1995 to 2022. 1995 date was selected as the start date because very little literature was published in the field prior to this time (Unsworth et al., 2019). The keywords and terms that will be used are : (((Aged or ag?ing or old*) ADJ2 (person* or adult* or people or individual* or man or men or woman or women or user*)) or elder* or geriatric*).ti,ab,kw OR ((mental* or intellectual*) ADJ2 (retard* or deficien* or ill or illness)).ab,ti,kw OR ((physical* or hearing or visual* or cogniti*) ADJ2 (deficien* or impair* or challenge*)).ab,ti,kw OR (disabled or disabilit* or Handicap*or blind* or "hard of hearing" or deaf*).ab,ti,kw OR (((walking) ADJ2 (frame or stick)) or wheelchair* or scooter* or walker* or rollator* or crutche* or cane* or brace*).ti,ab,kw OR ((mobility or walking) adj2 (difficult* or limitation*)).ti,ab,kw AND ("Public transport* accessibility" or bus or buses or tramway* or train or trains or subway* or metro or underground or ferry or ferries).ti,ab,kw AND (satisfaction or "self efficacy" or "self-efficacy" or confiden* or experience or "quality of life").ti,ab,kw. Since quality of life includes many aspects of life, such as psychological factors, we inserted this term just for optimizing the search function. This search function could be modified, if necessary, by switching from one database to another. A special mention has to be made for Web of science database. Indeed, we will activate the exact search from the advanced search to limit the lemmatization of the results. All retrieved literature will be imported into Covidence where the duplicates will be removed (www.covidence.org), a software in which all the steps of a knowledge synthesis can be completed, from the selection of articles to the extraction of obtained data. Literature that meets the following criteria will be included in our scoping review: original peer-reviewed or guideline report or editorials published from 1995 to 2022; written in English or French, is concerned with PT accessibility for people with disabilities including older people. Literature for which the full text is not available or focuses on the use of technologies while using PT system or generally discuss universal design will be excluded. Furthermore, validation study of measurement tools assessing PT accessibility or travel confidence or travel satisfaction for people with disabilities, studies on non-regular PT accessibility (i.e., adapted school buses for students with disabilities, paratransit) or on transportation in general will be exclude too. In addition, when any systematic review related to the topic of this scoping review will be identified, we will count the number of studies included in the review that potentially meet our inclusion criteria and will note how many studies are not present in our search (Tricco et al., 2018).