Table 2.
Medline (Ovid) search strategy.
| Ovid MEDLINE(R) ALL <1946 to 3 September 2021> | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SARS‐CoV‐2/or COVID‐19/ | 103,591 |
| 2 | (corona* adj1 (virus* or viral*)).ti,ab. | 2364 |
| 3 | (CoV not (Coefficien* or ‘co‐efficien*’ or covalent* or Covington* or covariant* or covarianc* or ‘cut‐off value*’ or ‘cutoff value*’ or ‘cut‐off volume*’ or ‘cutoff volume*’ or ‘combined optimi?ation value*’ or ‘central vessel trunk*’ or CoVR or CoVS)).ti,ab. | 51,911 |
| 4 | (coronavirus* or 2019nCoV* or 19nCoV* or ‘2019 novel*’ or Ncov* or ‘n‐cov’ or ‘SARS‐CoV−2*’ or ‘SARSCoV‐2*’ or SARSCoV2* or ‘SARS‐CoV2*’ or ‘severe acute respiratory syndrome*’ or COVID*2).ti,ab. | 181,470 |
| 5 | or/1‐4 | 187,096 |
| 6 | limit 5 to yr = ‘2020‐Current’ | 173,962 |
| 7 | (6 and english.lg.) not (letter or historical article or comment or editorial or news).pt. not (Animals/not humans/) | 134,173 |
| 8 | (Mask or masks or face?mask* or Face cover*).ti,ab. | 42,975 |
| 9 | (face adj2 (shield or shields)).ti,ab. | 414 |
| 10 | (((Hand or hands) adj2 hygiene) or Handwash* or (Wash* adj2 hand*)).ti,ab. | 11,132 |
| 11 | (hand adj1 clean*).ti,ab. | 256 |
| 12 | (hand adj2 saniti*).ti,ab. | 683 |
| 13 | (hand adj2 disinfect*).ti,ab. | 783 |
| 14 | Respiratory hygiene.ti,ab. | 79 |
| 15 | Respiratory etiquette.ti,ab. | 27 |
| 16 | ((cough* or sneeze*) and (sleeve or arm or elbow or tissue or etiquette)).ti,ab. | 2752 |
| 17 | (tissue and (dispose or disposal or bin or hygiene)).ti,ab. | 3414 |
| 18 | universal hygiene.ti,ab. | 10 |
| 19 | Social Isolation/or Patient Isolation/ | 19,284 |
| 20 | (self‐isolate or self‐isolation or self‐isolating).ti,ab. | 724 |
| 21 | (mass adj2 (behav* or gather*)).ti,ab. | 1690 |
| 22 | (social distance or social distancing).ti,ab. | 6625 |
| 23 | stay at home.ti,ab. | 1465 |
| 24 | stay home.ti,ab. | 314 |
| 25 | ((work* adj2 home) or telecommute or telework* or (remote* adj2 work*)).ti,ab. | 5262 |
| 26 | (Physical adj2 distanc*).ti,ab. | 2595 |
| 27 | (touch* and (mouth or mouths or face or faces or nose or noses or t‐zone)).ti,ab. | 1635 |
| 28 | disinfect*.ti,ab. | 31,760 |
| 29 | lockdown.ti,ab. | 8167 |
| 30 | quarantine.ti,ab. | 7821 |
| 31 | (nonpharmaceutical or non‐pharmaceutical).ti,ab. | 1831 |
| 32 | (school closure or close school* or school closing).ti,ab. | 389 |
| 33 | or/8‐32 | 140,404 |
| 34 | limit 33 to yr = ‘2020‐Current’ | 34,955 |
| 35 | (34 and english.lg.) not (letter or historical article or comment or editorial or news).pt. not (Animals/not humans/) | 31,455 |
| 36 | 7 and 35 | 20,298 |
| 37 | exp Knowledge/ | 12,323 |
| 38 | exp Health knowledge, Attitudes, Practice/ | 119,567 |
| 39 | (Knowledg* or Personal* or Attitude* or Practice* or Habit* or belie* or Behav* or Need* or prevent* or Compliance or comply* or complied or Perception* or Protect* or Predict* or view* or barrier* or facilitator* or readiness or prepar* or ability* or insight or proficien* or procedur* or adher*).ti,ab. | 10,617,318 |
| 40 | or/37‐39 | 10,635,825 |
| 41 | 7 and 35 and 40 | 14,859 |