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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012 Aug 15;8:CD009660. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009660.pub2
1 MEDLINE search strategy
  1. exp Psychotherapy/

  2. Problem Solving/

  3. psychotherap*.mp.

  4. ((cogniti* or family or behavior* or behaviour* or psychological*) adj5 (intervention* or treatment* or therap*)).mp.

  5. (problem* adj5 solv*).mp.

  6. CBT.mp.

  7. 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6

  8. exp Parents/

  9. exp Family/

  10. Caregivers/

  11. (parent* or mother* or father* or family or families or caregiver* or care-giver*).mp.

  12. 8or9or10or11

  13. exp Child/

  14. exp Infant/

  15. Adolescent/

  16. (child* or infant* or adolesc* or baby or babies or toddler* or teenager* or youth*).mp.

  17. 13 or 14 or 15 or 16

  18. exp Pain/

  19. exp Complex Regional Pain Syndromes/

  20. exp Rheumatic Diseases/

  21. exp Neoplasms/

  22. exp Diabetes Mellitus/

  23. exp Asthma/

  24. exp Brain Injuries/

  25. exp Inflammatory Bowel Diseases/

  26. exp Anemia, Sickle Cell/

  27. exp Skin Diseases/

  28. exp Genital Diseases, Female/

  29. exp menstruation disturbances/

  30. (pain* or headache*).mp.

  31. (rheumat* or arthriti* or fibromyalgia).mp.

  32. (cancer* or neoplas* or tumor* or tumour* or malignan* or carcinoma*).mp.

  33. diabet*.mp.

  34. asthma*.mp.

  35. (brain adj5 (trauma* or injur*)).mp.

  36. (bowel* adj5 inflammatory adj5 (condition* or disease* or illness*)).mp.

  37. (sickle cell adj5 (disease* or disorder* or anemia*)).mp.

  38. ((skin adj5 (disease* or disorder*)) or eczema*).mp.

  39. ((gynecologic* or gynaecologic*) adj5 (disease* or disorder*)).mp.

  40. dysmenorrh*.mp.

  41. endometriosis.mp.

  42. Chronic Disease/

  43. ((chronic* or longterm or long-term) adj5 (condition* or ill* or disease*)).mp.

  44. 18 or 19 or 20 or 21 or 22 or 23 or 24 or 25 or 26 or 27 or 28 or 29 or 30 or 31 or 32 or 33 or 34 or 35 or 36 or 37 or 38 or 39 or 40 or 41 or 42 or 43

  45. randomized controlled trial.pt.

  46. controlled clinical trial.pt.

  47. random*.mp.

  48. placebo*.mp.

  49. triar*.mp.

  50. evaluation studies.pt.

  51. exp Evaluation Studies as Topic/

  52. “Outcome Assessment (Health Care)”/

  53. exp Treatment Outcome/

  54. Comparative Effectiveness Research/

  55. (outcome* or assess* or evaluat*).mp.

  56. (quantitative adj5 research).mp.

  57. 45 or 46 or 47 or 48 or 49 or 50 or 51 or 52 or 54 or 55 or 56

  58. and 12 and 17 and 44 and 57