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. 2018 Feb 7;18:20. doi: 10.1186/s12903-018-0478-6

Table 1

PubMed
 The free text in PubMed translated and combined with MeSH-terms (Medical Subjects Headings (MeSH):
 (patient education OR health education dental OR prevention OR promotion OR motivation OR motivating interview OR Program evaluation OR Dental care for children) AND (immigrant OR immigrants OR refugee OR refugees OR socioeconomic factors OR vulnerable OR Indigent OR indigency OR poverty) AND dental caries AND (child OR children)
EMBASE
 ((patient education or health education dental or prevention or promotion or motivation or motivating interview or Program evaluation or Dental care for children) and (immigrant or immigrants or refugee or refugees or socioeconomic factors or vulnerable or Indigent or indigency or poverty) and dental caries and (child or children)).mp.
 Explanation for searching fields:
 [mp = title, abstract, heading word, drug trade name, original title, device manufacturer, drug manufacturer, device trade name, keyword]
Cinahl
 ((patient education or health education dental or prevention or promotion or motivation or motivating interview or Program evaluation or Dental care for children) and (immigrant or immigrants or refugee or refugees or socioeconomic factors or vulnerable or Indigent or indigency or poverty) and dental caries and (child or children))
SweMed+
Search with MeSH-terms.
Search no. Search words
 1 exp: “dental caries”
 3 exp: “socioeconomic factors”
 8 exp: “emmigrants and immigrants”
 10 #3 OR #8
 13 exp: “Infant” OR “child” OR “adolescent”
 14 #1 AND #10 AND #13
Cochrane
ID Search
 #1 MeSH descriptor: [Dental Caries] explode all trees
 #2 Caries
 #3 MeSH descriptor: [Socioeconomic Factors] explode all trees
 #4 migrant* or immigrant* or refugee*
 #5 child or children
 #6 #1 or #2
 #7 #3 or #4
 #8 #5 and #6 and #7