Table 1. Study databases and search keywords (or final search strategy, if reported), N = 19, May 28–29, 2015.
| Study | N: Databases | Page: Search or Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Badenes-Ribera et al., 2015 [24] | 2: PubMed and PsycINFO | p. 47: Lesbian |
| Batejan et al., 2015 [35] | 4: PsycINFO, Medline, SocINDEX, and ERIC | Appendix: bicurious OR bisexual(s) OR bisexuality OR gay(s) OR GLB OR GLBQ OR GLBs OR GLBT OR GLBTQ OR heteroflexible OR homosexual(s) OR homosexuality OR lesbian(s) OR LGB OR LGBQ OR LGBS OR LGBT OR LGBT OR lesbigay OR men who have sex with men OR MSM OR queer(s) OR same sex attracted OR same sex attracted youth OR SSA OR SSAY OR same-sex relations OR sexual minority OR sexual orientation OR women who have sex with women OR WSW |
| Blosnich et al., 2013 [32] | 10: Academic Search Elite, Alt HealthWatch, CAB Abstracts 1990-Present, CINAHL with Full Text, Health Source Consumer Edition, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, MEDLINE, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO and Social Work Abstracts | p. 67: ((homosexual* OR gay OR ‘sexual minority’ OR ‘sexual minorities’ OR lesbian* OR bisexual* OR queer OR ‘sexual orientation’ OR ‘men who have sex with men’ OR MSM OR ‘women who have sex with women’ OR WSW) |
| Buller et al., 2014 [25] | 13: MEDLINE, EMBASE, Global Health, PsycINFO, the Health Management Information Consortium database [HMIC], Social Policy and Practice, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature [CINAHL], the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences [IBSS], Web of Science, Africa Web, Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region [IMSEAR], Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region [IMEMR], and Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature [LILACS]) | In S1 File (PubMed via OVID): Homosexuality/ OR Homosexuality, Male/ OR Transsexualism/ OR Bisexuality/ OR Homosexual*.mp. OR Transexual*.mp. OR Bisexual*.mp. OR Transgender.mp. OR (MSM or men who have sex with men or ((man or men or male*) adj3 (gay or homosexual or queer or bisexual* or transsexual* or transgender)) or LGBT).mp. |
| Elamin et al., 2010 [22] | 5: Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid Embase, Ovid PsycInfo, Thomson Scientific Web of Science and Elsevier Scopus | Upon Request: 1. (trans adj (sexual$ or gender$ or male or men or women or female or people or person$)).mp. [mp = title, original title, abstract, name of substance word, subject heading word] 2. gender identity/ and su.fs. 3. sex reversal, gonadal/ 4. ((sex$ or gender) adj (transition$ or transform$ or reassign$ or chang$)).mp. [mp = title, original title, abstract, name of substance word, subject heading word] 5. transsexualism/ or (trans adj sexual$).mp. or transexual$.mp. or transsexual$.mp. [mp = title, original title, abstract, name of substance word, subject heading word] 6. ((gender or sexual$) adj2 (dysphor$ or identity)).mp. [mp = title, original title, abstract, name of substance word, subject heading word] 7. (crossgender or (cross adj (sex$ or gender$))).mp. [mp = title, original title, abstract, name of substance word, subject heading word] 8. (transgender$ or (trans adj gender$)).mp. [mp = title, original title, abstract, name of substance word, subject heading word] 9. (m2f or f2m or "male-to-female" or "female-to-male").mp. and (1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8) [mp = title, original title, abstract, name of substance word, subject heading word] 10. or/1-9 11. limit 10 to humans |
| Finkenauer et al., 2012 [18] | 15: CINAHL (1942-), Medline (1942-), Health Services/Technology Assessment Texts, Web of Science, EMBASE (1947-), Sociological Abstracts (1952), Social Services Abstracts (1806-), Gender Studies Database (1972-), LGBT Life with Full Text, Ageline (1978-), PsycINFO (1806-), Scopus, ERIC, The New York Academy of Medicine Grey Literature Report, and Dissertations & Theses: Full Text. | p. 313: transgender or transsexual or transexual or transman or transwoman or genderqueer or “gender queer” or LGBT or GLBT or transvestite or crossdress or “cross dress ” or “cross-dress ” or “drag queen” or “drag queens” or “drag king” or “drag kings” or “gender identity disorder” or “gender dysphori ” |
| Friedman et al., 2011 [34] | 2: MEDLINE and PsycINFO | P. 1482: NR but example keywords include gay, lesbian, bisexual, sexual orientation, homosexual, and homosexuality |
| Goldbach et al., 2014 [29] | 3: PsychINFO, PubMED, and EBSCO. | p. 351: lesbian OR gay OR bisexual OR sexual minority |
| Harding et al., 2012 [19] | 4: Medline (1950-present), PsycINFO (1806–2010), Cinahl (1982–2010), and ASSIA (1987–2010). | p. 603: homosexual OR lesbian OR gay OR transgender OR bisexual |
| King et al., 2008 [27] | 12: Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, Cinahl, the Cochrane Library Database, the Web of Knowledge, the Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Sociological Abstracts, the Campbell Collaboration and grey literature databases for Google and Google Scholar | NR |
| Langhinrichsen-Rohling et al., 2012 [26] | 7: Academic Search Premier, Education Resources Information Center, Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Biomedical Reference Collection, and SocINDEX | p. 205: N/A (authors manually selected LGBT-related studies from a search on intimate partner violence) |
| Lee et al., 2009 [33] | 7: Seven databases were searched for peer-reviewed research articles (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Cochrane Library via Wiley InterScience, Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), Health Source: Nursing/Academic, Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Science, PsycINFO via EBSCO Host and PubMed) | p. 282: homosexuality OR homosexual OR gay OR "sexual minority" OR "female homosexuality" OR "homosexuality, female" OR lesbian OR bisexuality OR bisexual OR transgender OR transsexual OR transsexualism OR transsexuality OR MSM OR queer OR "sexual orientation" OR "men who have sex with men” OR WSW OR “women loving women” OR “women who have sex with women” OR lesbianism |
| Lee et al., 2014 [12] | 8: Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials via Wiley Online Library; Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Global Health, PsycINFO, and Social Work Abstracts via EBSCO; Embase; PubMed; and Scopus. | p. 824: (homosexuality[MeSH Terms] OR homosexuality[tiab] OR homosexual[tiab] OR gay[tiab] OR LGBT[tiab] OR GLBT[tiab] OR LGB[tiab] OR “sexual minority”[tiab] OR “sexual minorities”[tiab] OR lesbian[tiab] OR bisexuality[MeSH Terms] OR bisexuality[tiab] OR bisexual[tiab] OR transsexualism[MeSH Terms] OR transsexualism[tiab] OR transgender[tiab] OR transsexual[tiab] OR trans- sexuality[tiab] OR msm[tiab] OR queer[tiab] OR “sexual orientation”[tiab] OR “men who have sex with men”[tiab] OR WSW[tiab] OR “women loving women”[tiab] OR “women who have sex with women”[tiab] OR lesbianism[tiab]) |
| Liu et al., 2014 [20] | 3: PubMed, WanFang Data, Google Scholar | p. 2: “MSM” OR “men who have sex with men” OR “gay” OR “homosexual” |
| Marshal et al., 2008 [30] | 2: PsycINFO and Medline | p. 548: NR but example keywords include: gay, lesbian, bisexual, LGB |
| Meads et al., 2013 [21] | 8: Cochrane library (CDSR, CENTRAL, HTA, DARE, NHSEED), MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, CAB abstracts, Web of Science (SCI, SSCI), SIGLE, Social Care Online | p. 2: lesbian, gay women, queer, bisexual, sexual preference, sexual orientation |
| Pompili et al., 2014 [31] | Unknown: MedLine, Excerpta Medica, PsycLit and PsycINFO, and Index Medicus reported in methods section; in results 3 are reported as being searched: PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Knowledge. | p. 1904: Bisexuality |
| Rose et al., 2013 [23] | 4: MEDLINE, Applied Social Services Index and Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts and Social Service Abstracts. | p. 419: lesbian OR gay OR bisexual |
| Schneeberger et al., 2014 [28] | 5: MEDLINE (Ovid), PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and PsycNet (includes PsycINFO, PsycBOOKS, PsycARTICLES, PsycTESTS), | p. 2–3: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, homosexual, men who have sex with men |
Note: NR = Not Reported