Entrepreneurial intention among undergraduate health sciences students: a scoping review protocol.
- 1Center for Studies and Development of Health Education - CEDES, São José do Rio Preto Medical School - FAMERP, Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 5416, São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 2Health Education Supervisor Expedicionários da Saúde (Health Expeditionaries) 674 Dona Maria Franco Salgado Ave. - Jardim Atibaia (Sousas) Campinas - SP, ZIP Code13106-290, Brazil.
- 3University Hospital Center Cova da Beira, University of Beira Interior, 6200-251 Covilhã, Portugal.
Abstract
This article presents a scoping review protocol for mapping evidence on entrepreneurial intention (EI) among undergraduate health sciences students, with emphasis on Nursing, Medicine, and Psychology. Its contribution is methodological: it converts generic Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) guidance into a pre-specified, reusable workflow for reviews at the interface of entrepreneurship research and health professions education, two fields with distinct vocabularies. Compared with a standard JBI protocol, it adds (i) criteria-based selection of seed articles and derivation of search terms from both literatures, using truncated stems (e.g., entrepren*) and entrepreneurship-specific terms (e.g., "new venture"); (ii) a multilingual layer with Portuguese and Spanish terms and trilingual DeCS descriptors; (iii) use of reviews only for backward and forward citation chasing; (iv) a disaggregation rule for mixed samples; (v) a reproducible grey-literature procedure; and (vi) a pre-execution step justifying the added value of the review for its population and context. Seven databases and grey literature will be searched without language or date restrictions; two independent reviewers will screen and chart data, and reporting will follow PRISMA-ScR. The protocol is a starting template for reviews on EI among health sciences students; its transferable components can be adapted to adjacent disciplines.•Provides a reusable, pre-registered JBI/PRISMA-ScR workflow for scoping reviews at the interface of entrepreneurship research and health professions education, focused on entrepreneurial intention among undergraduate health sciences students.•Adds a criteria-based seed-article procedure for deriving search terms from both fields, using truncated root stems (e.g., entrepren*) and entrepreneurship-specific terms (e.g., "new venture"), together with a multilingual (English, Portuguese, Spanish) search layer.•Specifies a citation-chasing-only rule for reviews, a disaggregation rule for mixed samples, and a pre-execution step to justify the added value of the review for its population and context, indicating which components can be reused in adjacent disciplines and which must be adapted.•Strengths: the protocol follows the JBI methodology and PRISMA-ScR reporting standards, is pre-registered on the Open Science Framework, and employs a three-step search strategy that combines controlled vocabulary descriptors and free-text keywords across seven databases, with explicit core terms per PCC component, thereby enhancing transparency and reproducibility.•Limitations: in accordance with scoping review methodology, formal critical appraisal of the included studies will not be performed; studies with interdisciplinary or mixed samples may be excluded when data specific to undergraduate health sciences students cannot be disaggregated; heterogeneity across educational and cultural contexts may constrain the comparability of the synthesized findings; records in languages other than English, Portuguese, and Spanish that lack English metadata may be missed; and the protocol is a starting template for reviews on entrepreneurial intention among undergraduate health sciences students, so its population block and added-value justification must be redeveloped for other populations.
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BibTeX
@article{macedo2026entrepreneurial,
title = {{Entrepreneurial intention among undergraduate health sciences students: a scoping review protocol.}},
author = {Gustavo Gouveia Macedo and Emerson Roberto Dos Santos and João Daniel de Souza Menezes and Matheus Querino da Silva and Ana Maria Rita Pedroso Vilela Torres de Carvalho Engel and Leonila Santos de Almeida Sasso and Bruna de Carvalho Regis and Walisson Trindade Batista and Marcia Regina Furlani and Cristiane Gouveia de Souza and Renata Dalbianco Bongardi and Laís Fernanda de Amorin and Giovanna Albefaro Sandonato Barbosa and Lucas Eduardo Luizão and Izaura Dos Santos Ramos and Paula Buck de Oliveira Ruiz and Antônio Hélio Oliani and Denise Cristina Móz Vaz Oliani and Luís Cesar Fava Spessoto and Júlio César André},
journal = {MethodsX},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.1016/j.mex.2026.104215},
url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42999845},
note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Entrepreneurial intention among undergraduate health sciences students: a scoping review protocol.
AU - Gustavo Gouveia Macedo
AU - Emerson Roberto Dos Santos
AU - João Daniel de Souza Menezes
AU - Matheus Querino da Silva
AU - Ana Maria Rita Pedroso Vilela Torres de Carvalho Engel
AU - Leonila Santos de Almeida Sasso
AU - Bruna de Carvalho Regis
AU - Walisson Trindade Batista
AU - Marcia Regina Furlani
AU - Cristiane Gouveia de Souza
AU - Renata Dalbianco Bongardi
AU - Laís Fernanda de Amorin
AU - Giovanna Albefaro Sandonato Barbosa
AU - Lucas Eduardo Luizão
AU - Izaura Dos Santos Ramos
AU - Paula Buck de Oliveira Ruiz
AU - Antônio Hélio Oliani
AU - Denise Cristina Móz Vaz Oliani
AU - Luís Cesar Fava Spessoto
AU - Júlio César André
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/18
JO - MethodsX
DO - 10.1016/j.mex.2026.104215
UR - https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42999845
AB - This article presents a scoping review protocol for mapping evidence on entrepreneurial intention (EI) among undergraduate health sciences students, with emphasis on Nursing, Medicine, and Psychology. Its contribution is methodological: it converts generic Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) guidance into a pre-specified, reusable workflow for reviews at the interface of entrepreneurship research and health professions education, two fields with distinct vocabularies. Compared with a standard JBI protocol, it adds (i) criteria-based selection of seed articles and derivation of search terms from both literatures, using truncated stems (e.g., entrepren*) and entrepreneurship-specific terms (e.g., "new venture"); (ii) a multilingual layer with Portuguese and Spanish terms and trilingual DeCS descriptors; (iii) use of reviews only for backward and forward citation chasing; (iv) a disaggregation rule for mixed samples; (v) a reproducible grey-literature procedure; and (vi) a pre-execution step justifying the added value of the review for its population and context. Seven databases and grey literature will be searched without language or date restrictions; two independent reviewers will screen and chart data, and reporting will follow PRISMA-ScR. The protocol is a starting template for reviews on EI among health sciences students; its transferable components can be adapted to adjacent disciplines.•Provides a reusable, pre-registered JBI/PRISMA-ScR workflow for scoping reviews at the interface of entrepreneurship research and health professions education, focused on entrepreneurial intention among undergraduate health sciences students.•Adds a criteria-based seed-article procedure for deriving search terms from both fields, using truncated root stems (e.g., entrepren*) and entrepreneurship-specific terms (e.g., "new venture"), together with a multilingual (English, Portuguese, Spanish) search layer.•Specifies a citation-chasing-only rule for reviews, a disaggregation rule for mixed samples, and a pre-execution step to justify the added value of the review for its population and context, indicating which components can be reused in adjacent disciplines and which must be adapted.•Strengths: the protocol follows the JBI methodology and PRISMA-ScR reporting standards, is pre-registered on the Open Science Framework, and employs a three-step search strategy that combines controlled vocabulary descriptors and free-text keywords across seven databases, with explicit core terms per PCC component, thereby enhancing transparency and reproducibility.•Limitations: in accordance with scoping review methodology, formal critical appraisal of the included studies will not be performed; studies with interdisciplinary or mixed samples may be excluded when data specific to undergraduate health sciences students cannot be disaggregated; heterogeneity across educational and cultural contexts may constrain the comparability of the synthesized findings; records in languages other than English, Portuguese, and Spanish that lack English metadata may be missed; and the protocol is a starting template for reviews on entrepreneurial intention among undergraduate health sciences students, so its population block and added-value justification must be redeveloped for other populations.
SN - 2215-0161
ER -