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. 2018 Oct 12;24(10):727–741. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2017.0249

Appendix Table A2.

Search Protocol (MEDLINE)

    SEARCH WORDS RESULTS
Population 1 LMIC OR “low and middle income” 7,291
  2 (“low income” OR “middle income”) AND (countr* OR setting) 18,411
  3 “developing country” OR “developing countries” 110,547
  4 “resource poor” OR “poor resource” OR “resource limited” OR “resource constrained” OR “low-resource” 14,274
Population total 5 #1 OR #2 OR #3 OR #4 133,766
Intervention 1 6 m-Health OR “mobile health” 29,243
  7 “mobile phone” OR “cell phone” OR “cellular phone” OR “smart phone” 6,135
  8 “mobile device*” OR “wearable device*” OR tablet* OR pda OR laptop OR ipad OR iphone 63,852
  9 SMS OR “short message service” OR MMS OR “multimedia message service” 9,868
  10 “text messaging” OR “text message” OR “instant message” OR “voice message” OR “phone call” OR e-mail[tiab] 8,951
  11 (Mobile OR smartphone OR phone) NEAR (app OR apps OR application OR applications) 269
  12 (Mobile OR smartphone OR phone OR “mobile phone”) NEAR (technolog* OR intervention) 363
Intervention 1 13 #6 OR #7 OR #8 OR #9 OR #10 OR #11 OR #12 113,734
Intervention 2 14 Model theoretical[MeSH] AND (behavior OR behaviour) 181,246
  15 “behavior change” OR “behaviour change” OR “behavioral change” OR “behavioural change” OR “health behavior” OR “health behaviour” 61,649
  16 “Medication Compliance” OR “Medication adherence” OR “Treatment compliance” OR Diet[tiab] OR Exercise[tiab] OR “physical activity”[tiab] OR “Weight control”[tiab] OR self-monitoring OR smoking[tiab] OR “alcohol consumption” 747,519
  17 (“health behavior” OR “health behaviour” OR behavior OR behaviour) AND (model OR theory OR theories) 258,831
  18 (“social learning” OR “behavioural learning” OR “behavioral learning” OR “transtheoretical” OR “social cognitive” OR “reasoned action” OR “planned behavior” OR “social support” OR “community organization model” OR “ecological approach” OR “organizational change” OR “diffusion of innovation”) AND (model OR theory) 20,442
Intervention 2 19 #14 OR #15 OR #16 OR #17 OR #18 1,104,274
P&I1&I2 20 #5 AND #13 AND #19 145
    Filter: Human 105
Total     105

LMIC, low- and middle-income country; P&I1&I2, P, population, I1 intervention 1, I2, intervention 2.