Table 2 PICOS

Participants

All HSCPs with, without, or working towards a professional qualification or registration participating in TEDE in any workplace or educational setting.

Informal (family) caregivers.

Intervention

Any technology-enabled approach to dementia education^a for HSCPs including single interventions, modules, and courses.

Decision support, DVD/video, and telephonic interventions.

Comparator

Studies involving comparator groups or no comparator groups.

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Outcome

Primary outcome measures were satisfaction; knowledge, skills, and attitudes; behaviours; and results. Secondary outcomes included the educational theories informing TEDE; usability of TEDE; facilitators and barriers to TEDE.

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Study design^b

Randomised controlled trials and quasi-experimental studies. Quasi-experimental studies included pre- and post-test designs, control group designs (with or without dependent pre- and post-tests) and time-series designs. Mixed methods studies reporting robust qualitative data collection and analysis methods alongside experimental research methods^c.

Qualitative studies that described participant perceptions of TEDE characteristics/effects.

Descriptive studies and programme evaluations with narrative or survey data of participants’ general impressions of TEDE.

Studies not published in the English language.

Studies published before 2005^d.