Inclusion and exclusion criteria – SPIDER model
| Criteria | Included | Excluded |
|---|---|---|
| Sample | informal caregivers, European population | professional caregivers, non-European population, care-recipients |
| Phenomenon of Interest | informal long-term elder care situations (sole or shared with some professional care) | special needs care situations (e.g. end-of-life care, care for specific illnesses), formal care settings (e.g. nursing homes, sole professional home care, hospitals), other forms of care (e.g. childcare) |
| Design | qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods designs and secondary analyses, that perform an analysis or report findings on potential gender differences | non-empirical work, work that does not analyse the gender dimension |
| Evaluation | economic and social (relational) outcomes for informal caregivers | emotional, psychological, cognitive, physical health outcomes for informal caregivers, outcomes for care-recipients |
| Research type | peer-reviewed empirical studies that were available in full-text version in English | non-empirical and/or not peer-reviewed work (e.g. reviews, grey literature), studies not available, studies in other languages |
| Criteria | Included | Excluded |
|---|---|---|
| Sample | informal caregivers, European population | professional caregivers, non-European population, care-recipients |
| Phenomenon of Interest | informal long-term elder care situations (sole or shared with some professional care) | special needs care situations (e.g. end-of-life care, care for specific illnesses), formal care settings (e.g. nursing homes, sole professional home care, hospitals), other forms of care (e.g. childcare) |
| Design | qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods designs and secondary analyses, that perform an analysis or report findings on potential gender differences | non-empirical work, work that does not analyse the gender dimension |
| Evaluation | economic and social (relational) outcomes for informal caregivers | emotional, psychological, cognitive, physical health outcomes for informal caregivers, outcomes for care-recipients |
| Research type | peer-reviewed empirical studies that were available in full-text version in English | non-empirical and/or not peer-reviewed work (e.g. reviews, grey literature), studies not available, studies in other languages |
Source(s): Table created by the authors