Table 1.

Search string for the impact of polygamy on women's mental health

Database	Specifications
PsycInfo (1967 to November 2011)	Limited to ‘Humans’
	(DE ‘Polygamy’ OR DE ‘Monogamy’) OR TX (polygamy or polygamous or polygamist* or polygyny or polygynous or polygynies) OR TX ((plural* or multipl*) N3 (wife or wives)) OR TX (monogamy or monogamous or monogamist*)
	(DE ‘Mental Health’ OR DE ‘Community Mental Health’) OR TX (mental* health* or psycho* or psychiatr*) OR (DE ‘Major Depression’ OR DE ‘Anaclitic Depression’ OR DE ‘Dysthymic Disorder’ OR DE ‘Endogenous Depression’ OR DE ‘Postpartum Depression’ OR DE ‘Reactive Depression’ OR DE ‘Recurrent Depression’ OR DE ‘Treatment Resistant Depression’ OR DE ‘Depression (Emotion)’ OR DE ‘Adjustment Disorders’ OR DE ‘Affective Disorders’ OR DE ‘Bipolar Disorder’ OR DE ‘Major Depression’ OR DE ‘Mania’ OR DE ‘Seasonal Affective Disorder’ OR ‘affective disturbances’ OR DE ‘Dysthymic Disorder’) OR TX (depress* or depressive disorder* or depressive symptom* or affective symptom* or reactive depress* or recurrent depress* or adjustment disorder* or maladjustment or social disorder* or dysthymi* or dysthymi* disorder* or somatization or somatisation or somatoform or sadness or emotion* or fatigue) OR TX ((affect N1 low) or (mood N1 low) or (affect N1 disorder*) or (affective N1 disorder*) or (mood N1 disorder*)) OR (DE ‘Anxiety’ OR DE ‘Computer Anxiety’ OR DE ‘Mathematics Anxiety’ OR DE ‘Performance Anxiety’ OR DE ‘Social Anxiety’ OR DE ‘Speech Anxiety’ OR DE ‘Test Anxiety’ OR DE ‘Anxiety Disorders’ OR DE ‘Acute Stress Disorder’ OR DE ‘Castration Anxiety’ OR DE ‘Death Anxiety’ OR DE ‘Generalized Anxiety Disorder’ OR DE ‘Obsessive Compulsive Disorder’ OR DE ‘Panic Disorder’ OR DE ‘Phobias’ OR DE ‘Posttraumatic Stress Disorder’ OR DE ‘Separation Anxiety’ OR DE ‘Hypochondriasis’ OR DE ‘Panic’) OR TX (acrophobia or agoraphobi* or agrophobi* or anxiety or anxious or asthenia or compuls* or hypochondri* or obsess* or panic* or phobia or phobic or phobics or neurosis or neuroses or neurotic or manifest anxiety scale) OR TX (fear or stress)
Medline (1985 to November 2011)	Limited to ‘Humans’
	TX (polygamy or polygamous or polygamist* or polygyny or polygynous or polygynies) OR TX ((plural* or multipl*) N3 (wife or wives)) OR TX (monogamy or monogamous or monogamist*)
	(DE ‘Mental Health’) OR TX (mental* health* or psycho* or psychiatr*) OR (DE ‘Depression’ OR DE ‘Depressive Disorder, Major’ OR DE ‘Depressive Disorder’ OR DE ‘Adjustment Disorders’ OR DE ‘Affective Disorders, Psychotic’ OR DE ‘Bipolar Disorder’ OR DE ‘Seasonal Affective Disorder’ OR ‘Mood Disorders’ OR DE ‘Dysthymic Disorder’) OR TX (depress* or depressive disorder* or depressive symptom* or affective symptom* or reactive depress* or recurrent depress* or adjustment disorder* or maladjustment or social disorder* or dysthymi* or dysthymi* disorder* or somatization or somatisation or somatoform or sadness or emotion* or fatigue) OR TX ((affect N1 low) or (mood N1 low) or (affect N1 disorder*) or (affective N1 disorder*) or (mood N1 disorder*)) OR (DE ‘Anxiety’ OR DE ‘Anxiety Disorders’ OR DE ‘Stress, Psychological’ OR DE ‘Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder’ OR DE ‘Panic Disorder’ OR DE ‘Phobic Disorders’ OR DE ‘Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic’ OR DE ‘Stress Disorders, Traumatic, Acute’ OR DE ‘Stress Disorders, Traumatic’ OR DE ‘Hypochondriasis’ OR DE ‘Panic’) OR TX (acrophobia or agoraphobi* or agrophobi* or anxiety or anxious or asthenia or compuls* or hypochondri* or obsess* or panic* or phobia or phobic or phobics or neurosis or neuroses or neurotic or manifest anxiety scale) OR TX (fear or stress)