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. 2015 Apr 7;4:42. doi: 10.1186/s13643-015-0032-4

Table 1.

Database-specific search strategies

Database Detailed search terms
PubMed ((((((((((((((((((((((((‘beck depression inventory’) OR ‘zung self rating depression scale’) OR ‘patient health questionnaire 9 depression scale’) OR ‘phq 9’) OR ‘structured clinical interview for dsm’) OR ‘scid’) OR ‘hamilton rating scale for depression’) OR (‘hospital anxiety and depression scale’)) OR ‘minnesota multiphasic personality inventory’) OR ‘diagnostic interview schedule’) OR ‘brief symptom inventory’) OR ‘short form 36 health survey’) OR ‘sf 36’) OR ‘neurobehavioural functioning inventory’) OR ‘composite international diagnostic interview’) OR ‘cidi’) OR ‘present state examination’) OR ‘center for epidemiological studies depression scale’) OR ‘cesd’) OR ‘self rating scale’) OR ‘brief symptom inventory’)) AND ((((((((((((((((((((((‘cognition disorder’ OR ‘cognition disorders’ OR ‘cognition dysfunction’))) OR ((‘cognitive defect’ OR ‘cognitive defects’ OR ‘cognitive deficiencies’ OR ‘cognitive deficiency’ OR ‘cognitive deficient’ OR ‘cognitive deficit’ OR ‘cognitive deficits’ OR ‘cognitive deterioration’))) OR ‘alzheimer’) OR ‘alzheimer disease’) OR ‘brain damage’) OR ‘brain injury’) OR exp AND ‘dementia’) OR ((‘neurodegenerative’ OR ‘neurodegenerative brain diseases’ OR ‘neurodegenerative brain disorder’ OR ‘neurodegenerative brain disorders’ OR ‘neurodegenerative dementia’ OR ‘neurodegenerative dementia diseases’ OR ‘neurodegenerative disease’))) OR ((‘mini mental state’ OR ‘mini mental state exam’ OR ‘mini mental state exam mmse’ OR ‘mini mental state exam mmse score’)))) OR ‘stroke’) OR ‘cerebrovascular accident’) OR ‘cerebrovascular disorder’)) NOT (((((((‘drug therapy’) OR ‘surgery’) OR ‘drug’) OR ‘acupuncture’) OR ‘light modification’) OR ‘telestroke’))) AND depress*[Title/Abstract])) NOT ‘case report’)) NOT ‘caregiver’))) AND ((((‘therapy’) OR ‘intervention’) OR ‘psychotherapy’) OR ‘treatment’)
PubMed (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((‘traumatic brain injury’) OR ‘cognitive impairment’) OR ‘cognitive defect’) OR ‘cognitive deficit’) OR ((‘cognitive deficiencies’ OR ‘cognitive deficiency’))) OR ‘alzheimer’) OR ‘dementia’) OR ‘parkinson’) OR ‘neurodegenerative disease’) OR ‘mmse’) OR ‘mini mental state exam’)) AND depress*[Title/Abstract]) AND (((((‘treatment’) OR ‘intervention’) OR ‘program’) OR ‘self help’) OR ‘therapy’)) NOT ‘deep brain stimulation’) NOT ‘electroconvulsive’) NOT ‘surgery’) NOT ‘drug’) NOT ‘pharmacotherapy’) NOT ‘antidepressant’) NOT ‘caregiver’[Title/Abstract]) NOT ‘prevalence’) NOT ‘risk factors’) NOT ‘case report’) NOT ‘acupuncture’)) NOT relationship[Title/Abstract]) NOT ‘serotonin reuptake inhibitor’) NOT etiology[Title/Abstract]) NOT screening[Title/Abstract]) NOT ‘pharmacology’) NOT ‘drug therapy’ FILTER: humans
PsycINFO 1 traumatic brain injury.mp. or exp Traumatic Brain Injury/(12988)
2 exp Cognitive Impairment/or exp Brain Damage/or exp Alzheimer’s Disease/(70020)
3 exp Dementia/or exp Cerebrovascular Accidents/or exp Cerebral Ischemia/or Stroke.mp. (71050)
4 neurodegenerative disease.mp. or exp Neurodegenerative Diseases/(49039)
5 exp Aging/or exp Mini Mental State Examination/or exp Dementia with Lewy Bodies/or mmse.mp. (40902)
6 exp Brain Damage/or exp Head Injuries/or brain injury.mp. (28035)
7 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 (156147)
8 therapy.mp. or exp Treatment/(509218)
9 intervention.mp. or exp Intervention/(157539)
10 program.mp. (137493)
11 8 or 9 or 10 (685772)
12 depress$.ti,ab. (182823)
13 7 and 11 and 12 (5006)
14 exp Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy/or exp Electroconvulsive Shock/or electroconvulsive.mp. (5620)
EMBASE 1 cognitive impairment.mp. or cognitive defect/(110884)
2 exp brain damage/(18604)
3 traumatic brain injury.mp. or exp brain injury/or exp traumatic brain injury/or exp head injury/(207692)
4 neurodegenerative disease.mp. or exp degenerative disease/(375596)
5 exp aging/or aging.mp. (412945)
6 mmse.mp. or exp Mini Mental State Examination/(21451)
7 exp ‘mixed depression and dementia’/or exp senile dementia/or dementia.mp. or exp dementia/or exp HIV associated dementia/(236836)
8 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 (1094564)
9 exp therapy/or therapy.mp. (6536263)
10 intervention.mp. or exp intervention study/(474236)
11 exp education program/or exp health program/or exp program impact/or exp program efficacy/or exp program evaluation/or program.mp. or exp program feasibility/or exp program effectiveness/(606821)
12 9 or 10 or 11 (7082345)
13 depress$.ti,ab. (378701)
14 8 and 12 and 13 (18684)
15 drug therapy.mp. or exp drug therapy/(1682801)
16 antidepressant.mp. or exp antidepressant agent/(305303)
17 exp risperidone/or exp clozapine/or exp quetiapine/or exp ziprasidone/or exp haloperidol/or exp chlorpromazine/or exp olanzapine/or exp neuroleptic agent/or exp atypical antipsychotic agent/or antipsychotic.mp. (204343)
18 exp electroconvulsive therapy unit/or exp electroconvulsive therapy/or electroconvulsive.mp. (16851)
19 caregiver.ti,ab. (18046)
20 exp epidemiology/or epidemiology.mp. (2037231)
21 risk factor.ti,ab. (163835)
22 prevalence.ti,ab. (484953)
23 gene.ti,ab. (1334632)
24 etiology.ti,ab. (160945)
25 relationship.ti,ab. (789321)
26 validation.ti,ab. (136292)
27 screening.ti. (126683)
28 deep brain stimulation.mp. or exp brain depth stimulation/(24416)
29 surgery.mp. or exp surgery/(3551586)
30 marker.ti,ab. (317173)
31 15 or 16 or 17 or 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 (8808822)
32 14 not 31 (5012)
33 case report/(1879027)
34 32 not 33 (4829)
35 association.ti,ab. (1074371)
36 34 not 35 (4322)
CINAHL ( (MH ‘Brain Injuries+’) OR (MH ‘Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders+’) OR (MH ‘Cognition Disorders+’) OR (MH ‘Neurodegenerative Diseases+’) OR (MH ‘Aging+’) OR (MH ‘Dementia+’) OR (MH ‘Dementia, Vascular+’) OR (MH ‘Dementia, Multi-Infarct’) OR (MH ‘AIDS Dementia Complex’) OR (MH ‘Lewy Body Disease’) OR (MH ‘Dementia, Senile+’) OR (MH ‘Dementia, Presenile+’) ) AND ( ‘therapy’ OR (MH ‘Experimental Studies+’) OR ‘intervention’ OR (MH ‘Program Implementation’) OR (MH ‘Program Evaluation’) OR ‘program’ OR (MH ‘Therapeutic Trials’) OR ‘therapeutic’ ) AND AB ( (MH ‘Depression+’) OR (MH ‘Self-Rating Depression Scale’) OR (MH ‘Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression’) OR (MH ‘Geriatric Depression Scale’) OR (MH ‘Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale’) OR (MH ‘Death Depression Scale’) OR (MH ‘Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale’) OR (MH ‘Beck Depression Inventory, Revised Edition’) ) NOT ( (MH ‘Epidemiology+’) OR (MH ‘Epidemiological Research+’) OR (MH ‘Risk Factors+’) OR (MH ‘Acupuncture+’) OR (MH ‘Surgery, Operative+’) OR (MH ‘Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor’) OR (MH ‘Drug Evaluation, Preclinical’) OR (MH ‘Drug Rehabilitation Programs+’) OR (MH ‘Drug Design’) OR (MH ‘Drug Compounding’) OR (MH ‘Antidepressive Agents+’) OR (MH ‘Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic+’) OR (MH ‘Antidepressive Agents, Second Generation+’) OR (MH ‘Electroconvulsive Therapy’) OR (MH ‘Deep Brain Stimulation’) OR (MH ‘Case Studies’) OR (MH ‘Gene Expression’) OR (MH ‘Mutation+’) OR (MH ‘Genes+’) OR (MH ‘Drug Therapy+’) OR (MH ‘Hemodialysis+’) OR (MH ‘Prevalence’) OR (MH ‘Cross Sectional Studies’) OR (MH ‘Surveys+’))////LIMITS: English language; human; peer-reviewed; language: English; age groups: adolescent: 13 to 18 years, adult: 19 to 44 years, middle aged: 45 to 64 years, aged: 65+ years, aged, 80 and over