Table 3 Characteristics of included research and other literature
Characteristic | Number of documents (N = 45a) |
|---|---|
Type of document | |
Research article | 35 |
Confernece abstract | 2 |
Evaluation/report | 2 |
Thesis | 3 |
Commentary | 2 |
Medical news article | 1 |
Study design | |
Cross-sectional/ descriptive/ correlational | 11 |
Qualitative | 6 |
Before and after/ pre-post/ non-randomised evaluation/ comparative | 6 |
Propsective cohort | 5 |
Quality improvement / knowledge translation | 4 |
Review | 4 |
Randomised controlled trial | 3 |
Reliability study | 1 |
Unclear | 1 |
Not applicableb | 4 |
Geographical location | |
North America Canada (n = 2), USA (n = 15) | 17 |
Europe England (n = 2), France (n = 3), Ireland (n = 1), Poland (n = 1), Spain (n = 3), Sweden (n = 2), Turkey (n = 6), UK (n = 1) | 19 |
Middle East Iran (n = 1), Israel (n = 1), Jordan (n = 1), Lebanon (n = 1) | 4 |
Africa Tanzania (n = 1) | 1 |
Asia Taiwan (n = 1), Thailand (n = 1) | 2 |
South America Brazil (n = 1), Venezuela (n = 1) | 2 |
Discharge focus | |
Readiness | 22 |
Preparation | 16 |
Both | 6 |
Unclear | 1 |
Orientation | |
Postnatal (mother and newborn) | 36 |
Pre-term infants | 6 |
Hospitalised children | 2 |
Generic | 1 |