Table 1.
Search trial on PubMed, CINAHL, Embase, Scopus, Global Health and PsycINFO
| Database | Search number | Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms and keywords | Articles revealed |
| PubMed | #1 | (“coronary disease” [MeSH Terms] OR (“coronary” [All Fields] AND “disease” [All Fields]) OR “coronary disease” [All Fields] OR (“coronary” [All Fields] AND “heart” [All Fields] AND “disease” [All Fields]) OR “coronary heart disease” [All Fields]) OR (“coronary artery disease” [MeSH Terms] OR (“coronary” [All Fields] AND “artery” [All Fields] AND “disease” [All Fields]) OR “coronary artery disease” [All Fields)) | 294 895 |
| #2 | “china” [MeSH Terms] OR “china” [All Fields)) OR (“asian continental ancestry group” [MeSH Terms] OR (“asian” [All Fields] AND “continental” [All Fields] AND “ancestry” [All Fields] AND “group” [All Fields]) OR “asian continental ancestry group” [All Fields] OR “chinese”[All Fields]) | 1 357 102 | |
| #3 | adherence [All Fields] OR (“patient compliance” [MeSH Terms] OR (“patient” [All Fields] AND “compliance” [All Fields]) OR “patient compliance” [All Fields] OR “compliance” [All Fields] OR “compliance” [MeSH Terms]) OR persistence [All Fields] OR discontinue [All Fields] OR underuse [All Fields] OR non-adherence [All Fields] OR non-compliance [All Fields] OR comply [All Fields] OR (“patient compliance” [MeSH Terms] OR (“patient” [All Fields] AND “compliance” [All Fields]) OR “patient compliance” [All Fields] OR “compliant” [All Fields]) OR adhere [All Fields] | 353 524 | |
| #4 | #1 AND #2 AND #3 | 173 | |
| CINAHL | #1 | (coronary heart disease OR coronary artery disease) | 33 626 |
| #2 | (China OR Chinese) | 59 960 | |
| #3 | (adherence OR compliance OR persistence OR discontinue OR underuse OR non-adherence OR non-compliance OR comply OR compliant OR adhere) | 105 750 | |
| #4 | #1 AND #2 AND #3 | 23 | |
| Embase | #1 | (coronary AND (‘heart’/exp OR heart) AND (‘disease’/exp OR disease) OR coronary) AND (‘artery’/exp OR artery) AND (‘disease’/exp OR disease) | 433 989 |
| #2 | china OR chinese | 1 695 781 | |
| #3 | adherence OR compliance OR persistence OR discontinue OR underuse OR ‘non adherence’ OR ‘non-compliance’ OR comply OR compliant OR adhere | 524 776 | |
| #4 | #1 AND #2 AND #3 | 320 | |
| Scopus | #1 | (coronary heart disease OR coronary artery disease) | 201 258 |
| #2 | (China OR Chinese) | 1 096 428 | |
| #3 | (adherence OR compliance OR persistence OR discontinue OR underuse OR non-adherence OR non-compliance OR comply OR compliant OR adhere) | 696 604 | |
| #4 | #1 AND #2 AND #3 | 54 | |
| Global Health | #1 | (coronary heart disease OR coronary artery disease) | 39 659 |
| #2 | (China OR Chinese) | 315 129 | |
| #3 | (adherence OR compliance OR persistence OR discontinue OR underuse OR non-adherence OR non-compliance OR comply OR compliant OR adhere) | 58 414 | |
| #4 | #1 AND #2 AND #3 | 56 | |
| PsycINFO | #1 | (coronary heart disease OR coronary artery disease) | 6844 |
| #2 | (China OR Chinese) | 99 722 | |
| #3 | (adherence OR compliance OR persistence OR discontinue OR underuse OR non-adherence OR non-compliance OR comply OR compliant OR adhere) | 80 844 | |
| #4 | #1 AND #2 AND #3 | 8 |
CINAHL, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature.