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

Appendix Table A3.

Search Protocol (CENTRAL)

    SEARCH WORDS RESULTS
Population 1 LMIC OR “low and middle income” 358
  2 (“low income” OR “middle income”) AND (countr* OR setting) 1,117
  3 “developing country” OR “developing countries” 3,962
  4 “resource poor” OR “poor resource” OR “resource limited” OR “resource constrained” OR “low-resource” 1,119
Population total 5 #1 OR #2 OR #3 OR #4 4,329
Intervention 1 6 m-Health OR “mobile health” 353
  7 “mobile phone” OR “cell phone” OR “cellular phone” OR “smart phone” 1,074
  8 “mobile device*” OR “wearable device*” OR tablet* OR pda OR laptop OR ipad OR iphone 18,911
  9 SMS OR “short message service” OR MMS OR “multimedia message service” 1,168
  10 “text messaging” OR “text message” OR “instant message” OR “voice message” OR “phone call” OR e-mail[tiab] 2,284
  11 (Mobile OR smartphone OR phone) NEAR (app OR apps OR application OR applications) 662
  12 (Mobile OR smartphone OR phone OR “mobile phone”) NEAR (technolog* OR intervention) 888
Intervention 1 13 #6 OR #7 OR #8 OR #9 OR #10 OR #11 OR #12 22,795
Intervention 2 14 MeSH descriptor: [Models, Theoretical] explode all trees 181,246
  15 Behavior OR Behaviour 21,971
  16 #14 AND #15 2,072
  17 “behavior change” OR “behaviour change” OR “behavioral change” OR “behavioural change” OR “health behavior” OR “health behaviour” 7,519
  18 “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” 90,781
  19 (“health behavior” OR “health behaviour” OR behavior OR behaviour) AND (model OR theory OR theories) 7,117
  20 (“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) 1,866
Intervention 2 21 #16 OR #17 OR #18 OR #19 OR #20 100,507
P&I1&I2 22 #5 AND #13 AND #21 62
Total     62

CENTRAL, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials; P&I1&I2, P, population, I1 intervention 1, I2, intervention 2.