Table 1.

Searching procedure.

Databases	Search strategy	Preliminary search	First screening*	Second screening**
PubMed	(“care stress”[All Fields] OR “care”[All Fields] OR “stress”[All Fields]) AND “nurse”[All Fields] AND ((“stress”[All Fields] OR “stressed”[All Fields] OR “stresses”[All Fields] OR “stressful”[All Fields] OR “stressfulness”[All Fields] OR “stressing”[All Fields]) AND (“manage”[All Fields] OR “managed”[All Fields] OR “management s”[All Fields] OR “managements”[All Fields] OR “manager”[All Fields] OR “manager s”[All Fields] OR “managers”[All Fields] OR “manages”[All Fields] OR “managing”[All Fields] OR “managment”[All Fields] OR “organization and administration”[MeSH Terms] OR (“organization”[All Fields] AND “administration”[All Fields]) OR “organization and administration”[All Fields] OR “management”[All Fields] OR “disease management”[MeSH Terms] OR (“disease”[All Fields] AND “management”[All Fields]) OR “disease management”[All Fields]))	2142	11	3
Web of Sciences	Results for ((ALL=(care stress)) AND ALL=(stress management)) AND ALL=(nurse) and Article (Document Types) and English (Languages) and Article (Document Types)	1671	21	15
Scopus	TITLE-ABS-KEY (care stress OR care OR stress) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY (“nurse” AND stress management) AND (LIMIT-TO (DOCTYPE,”ar”))	1840	5	3
SID	(care stress) AND (stress management) AND (“nurse”)	953	3	1

*Based on title and abstract; **According to inclusion and exclusion criteria.