Table 1.
Search terms.
| Database and Search terms | Limitations | Number of abstracts |
|
Subject Headings: CINAHL: (MH “autistic disorder”) or (MH “child development disorders, pervasive”) or (MH “pervasive developmental disorder—not otherwise specified”), and (MH “rural health centers”) or (MH “hospitals, rural”) or (MH “rural population”) or (MH “rural health services”) or (MH “rural areas”) or (MH “services for Australian rural and remote allied health”) or (MH “rural health”) or (MH “rural health personnel”) or (MH “telehealth”) or (MH “telemedicine”) or (MH “videoconferencing”) or (MH “teleconferencing”) |
English language |
80 |
| ERIC: SU.EXACT(“Asperger syndrome”) or SU.EXACT(“pervasive developmental disorders”) or SU.EXACT(“autism”), and SU.EXACT(“rural population”) or SU.EXACT(“rural areas”) or SU.EXACT(“rural youth”) or SU.EXACT(“rural environment”) or SU.EXACT(“rural education”) or SU.EXACT(“teleconferencing”) or SU.EXACT(“telecourses”) or SU.EXACT(“videoconferencing”) or SU.EXACT(“telecommunications”) | English language | 29 |
| Embase: autism or Asperger syndrome or “pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified,” and (rural health care or rural area or urban rural difference or rural population) or (teleconsultation or telediagnosis or telehealth or telemedicine or telemonitoring or teletherapy or videoconferencing or teleconference or health care delivery) | English language | 406 |
| PsycINFO: autism or pervasive developmental disorders or Aspergers syndrome, and (exp rural environments or distance education) or (telemedicine or computer mediated communication or telecommunications media) | English language | 64 |
| PubMed : (“Autistic disorder” [Mesh] or “child development disorders, pervasive” [Mesh]) and (“rural population” [Mesh] or “rural health services” [Mesh] or “rural health” [Mesh] or “remote consultation” [Mesh] or “telemedicine” [Mesh] or “videoconferencing” [Mesh]) | English language | 45 |
| CINAHL: Autis* or Asperg* or ASD or (“pervasive,” “developmental,” and “disorder”) or PDD, and (rural* or remote* or regional* or telehealth or tele-health or telemedicine or tele-medicine or telerehab* or tele-rehab* or telediagnos* or tele-diagnos* or teletreat* or tele-treat or teletherap* or tele-therap* or telemonitoring or tele-monitoring or teleintervention or tele-intervention or teletreatment or tele-treatment or telepractice or tele-practice or videoconference* or video-conferenc* or teleconference* or tele-conference* or webbased OR web-based or internet-based or [“technology” and “mediated”] or technology-mediated) | English Language Published date: 20140601-20160704 |
64 |
| Free-text search words | ||
| ERIC:As per CINAHL free text | As per CINAHL free text | 45 |
| Embase : As per CINAHL free text |
As per CINAHL free text | 487 |
| PsycINFO : As per CINAHL free text |
As per CINAHL free text | 131 |
| PubMed : As per CINAHL free text |
As per CINAHL free text | 446 |