Physical Literacy in Older Adults: a Scoping Review Protocol

Abstract

Review question / Objective: “How is the concept of physical literacy characterized in older adults?”. P – People in their older adult years. C – Physical literacy. C – Any context. Eligibility criteria: Studies will be assessed for inclusion in the review according to the following criteria: Study Design: We will only include studies that investigate the physical literacy throughout older adult life. This includes primary research (peer-reviewed research arti-cles), evidence synthesis (narrative reviews, systematic reviews, scoping reviews, rapid re-views, etc.), conference abstracts, discussion articles, editorials, and thesis. We will not limit the included studies by the sample size of the study. Outcomes: We will include studies examining outcomes under the concept of physical literacy, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Study Population and Additional Characteristics: We will only include studies where the study population meets the MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) "Aged" characteristics: A person 65 years of age or older. We will not limit included studies by their ethnicity, country of origin, economic characteristics, or geographic region. We will limit the studies included by publication date to those published since 2001, since Whithead's physical literacy concept was first described in that year [22]. We will limit included studies to those published in English, Spanish and Portugueses.