| # | 1. | (palliative OR ‘palliative care’ OR hospice OR ‘terminal care’ OR ‘terminally ill’)/exp |
| # | 2. | ‘Story telling’/exp |
| # | 3. | (reminiscene or reminiscing)/exp |
| # | 4. | ‘life review’/exp |
| # | 5. | ‘autobiographical memory’/exp |
| # | 6. | biography/exp |
| # | 7. | (‘life-narrative’ or ‘life narrative’)/exp |
| # | 8. | factorial*:ti,ab |
| # | 9. | placebo*:ti,ab |
| # | 10. | assign*:ti,ab |
| # | 11. | allocat*:ti,ab |
| # | 12. | ‘evaluation study’:ti,ab |
| # | 13. | ‘prospective study’:ti,ab |
| # | 14. | ‘comparative study’:ti,ab |
| # | 15. | ‘qualitative study’:ti,ab |
| # | 16. | 2-7/OR |
| # | 17. | 8-15/OR |
| # | 18. | 16 and 17 and 1 |