Table 4.
EMBASE search strategy
| Concept | Number of hits |
|---|---|
| A. Population | |
| 1. child/ | 1529952 |
| 2. infant/ | 588992 |
| 3. exp paediatrics/ | 95214 |
| 4. (child* or infant* or p?ediatric*).ti,ab | 1934384 |
| 5. exp handicapped child/ | 8130 |
| 6. (“children with disabilit*” or “people with disabilit*” or pwd or “persons with disabilit*” or “individuals with disabilit”).ab,ti. | 6255 |
| 7. exp adolescent/ | 1328092 |
| 8. “adolescen*”.ti, ab. | 258384 |
| 9. 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 | 3306882 |
| B. Intervention - Setting | |
| 10. exp health program/ | 98631 |
| 11. exp health service/ | 4080400 |
| 12. exp health promotion/ | 76003 |
| 13. exp rehabilitation/ | 291352 |
| 14. exp immunization/ | 257019 |
| 15. exp health care/ | 3838165 |
| 16. (“health adj5 access” or “community hospital” or “health care” or “health services” or “rehabilitat*” or therap* or treatment).ab,ti. | 6644190 |
| 17. 10 or 11 or 12 or 13 or 14 or 15 or 16 | 9451205 |
| C. Intervention - Strategies | |
| 18. (barrier* or facilitator* or uptake or usage or intake or access* or adherence or compliance or complian* or adher* or promot* or increas* OR prevent* or reduc* or program* or educat* or campaign* or predict* or determin* or behavio#r*).ab,ti. | 12511153 |
| 19. ((barrier* or facilitator* or uptake or usage or intake or access* or adherence or compliance or complian* or adher* or promot* or increas* OR prevent* or reduc* or program* or educat* or campaign* or predict* or determin* or behavio#r*) adj3 (health* or ill or illness or ills or well or wellbeing or wellness or poorly or unwell or sick* or disease*)).ab,ti. | 576682 |
| 20. 18 or 19 | 1251153 |
| D. Study design | |
| 21. Clinical trial/ | 859727 |
| 22. exp controlled clinical trial/ | 530729 |
| 23. exp experimental design/ | 12337 |
| 24. exp experiment/ | 2254758 |
| 25. exp feasibility study/ | 61100 |
| 26. “clinical trial”.ab,ti. | 129856 |
| 27. “controlled clinical trial”.ab,ti. | 12879 |
| 28. “randomi#ed controlled trial”.ab,ti. | 70586 |
| 29. randomi#ed.ab,ti. | 588698 |
| 30. (trial or rct).ab,ti. | 582657 |
| 31. “intervention study”.ab,ti. | 8364 |
| 32. “quasi randomi#ed”.ab,ti. | 3127 |
| 33. ((clin* or control* or compar* or evaluat* or prospectiv*) adj3 (trial* or studi* or study)).ab,ti. | 2116839 |
| 34. 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 | 5055412 |
| E. Country | |
| 35. exp Developing Country/ | 83201 |
| 36. (asia or africa or “south america” or “developing count*” or “low middle income countr*”).ti. | 55505 |
| 37. 35 or 36 | 125953 |
| A + B + C + D + E | |
| 38. 9 and 17 and 20 and 34 and 37 | 1961 |