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. 2018 Feb 20;8(2):e018900. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018900

Table 1.

PubMed search strategy

Search PubMed query 19-06-2017 Items found
#1 Search “Psychoanalytic Therapy”[Mesh] OR “Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic”[Mesh] OR psychodynamic*[tiab] Sort by: Relevance 20 177
#2 Search (“Psychotherapy”[Mesh:noexp] OR “Animal Assisted Therapy”[Mesh] OR “Art Therapy’(Mesh) OR “Bibliotherapy”[Mesh] OR “Psychotherapy, Group”[Mesh] OR “Psychotherapy, Brief”[Mesh] OR “Psychotherapy, Multiple”[Mesh] OR “Counselling”[Mesh:NoExp] OR “Directive Counselling”[Mesh:NoExp] OR ((psychotherap*[tiab] OR therap*[tiab] OR counselling[tiab]) NOT medline[sb])) 380 901
#3 Search dynamic*[tiab] OR STPP[tiab] OR BDT(tiab] OR DIT[tiab] OR insight*[tiab] OR interpretive[tiab] OR interpretative[tiab] OR analytic*[tiab] OR psychoanalytic*[tiab] 1073 217
#4 Search #2 AND #3 21 435
#5 Search #1 OR #4 39 841
#6 Search Depressive disorder[Mesh] OR depression[Mesh] OR ((depress*[tiab] OR melancholia*[tiab] OR dysphoria*[tiab] OR dysthymi*[tiab] OR “seasonal affective disorder”[tiab]) NOT medline[sb]) 223 737
#7 Search #5 AND #6 2350
#8 Search #7 NOT (“addresses”[Publication Type] OR “biography”[Publication Type] OR “comment”[Publication Type] OR “directory”[Publication Type] OR “editorial”[Publication Type] OR “festschrift”[Publication Type] OR “interview”[Publication Type] OR “lectures”[Publication Type] OR “legal cases”[Publication Type) OR “legislation”[Publication Type) OR “letter”[Publication Type) OR “news”[Publication Type) OR ‘newspaper article”[Publication Type) OR ‘patient education handout”[Publication Type] OR “popular works”[Publication Type] OR “consensus development conference’[Publication Type] OR “consensus development conference, nih”[Publication Type]) 2285