“…All the 37 included studies examined residential care facilities, were published between 2010 and 2019, 2015 being the year with the highest publication rate. The 31 articles conducted in Spain included 4 quasi-experimental studies (Villar et al, 2013;Díaz-Veiga et al, 2014;García-Soler et al, 2017;Sánchez-Izquierdo et al, 2019); 5 cross-sectional studies (Garre-Olmo et al;2012;Díaz-Veiga et al, 2016;Rebollo, 2017;Villar et al, 2019); 1 cohort study (Muñiz et al, 2016); 7 qualitative studies (Rodríguez-Martín et al, 2013;Rojano & Reñones, 2015;Rodríguez-Martín et al, 2016;Pagán, 2018;Pérez-Rojo et al, 2018;Delgado, 2019); 5 quantitative studies on the development, validation, and psychometric evaluation of instruments Villar et al, 2015;Fernández-Ballesteros et al, 2019;Martínez et al, 2019); and 9 theoretical framework studies (Rodríguez, 2010;Martínez, 2013; Grupo de calidad de la Sociedad Española de Geriatría y Gerontología, 2014; Fernández, 2015;Lantarón, 2015;Martínez, 2015a;Villar & Serrat, 2016). The 6 articles from Portugal all belonged to the same project and included 4 experimental studies Barbosa et al, 2015a;Barbosa et al, 2015b;Barbosa et al, 2016), 1 qualitative study (Barbosa et al, 2017) and 1 systematic review .…”