Table 1.
Search strategy for PubMed
| #1 | Cancer*[Title/Abstract] OR carcinoma*[Title/Abstract] OR neoplas*[Title/Abstract] OR tumor*[Title/Abstract] OR tumour*[Title/Abstract] OR malignan*[Title/Abstract] OR leukemi*[Title/Abstract] OR leukaemi*[Title/Abstract] OR metasta*[Title/Abstract] OR oncolog*[Title/Abstract] OR lymphoma*[Title/Abstract] OR myeloma*[Title/Abstract] OR sarcoma*[Title/Abstract] OR Neoplasms[MeSH Terms] |
| #2 | (self-management[Title/Abstract] OR self manag*[Title/Abstract] OR self-care[Title/Abstract] OR self-car*[Title/Abstract] OR Symptom management[Title/Abstract] OR Symptom manag*[Title/Abstract] OR “self-care”[MeSH Terms]) OR “self-management”[MeSH Terms] |
| #3 | Instrument [Title/Abstract] OR instruments [Title/Abstract] OR measure [Title/Abstract] OR measures [Title/Abstract] OR questionnaire[Title/Abstract]] OR questionnaires [Title/Abstract] OR scale [Title/Abstract] OR scales [Title/Abstract] OR tool [Title/Abstract] OR tools [Title/Abstract] OR survey [Title/Abstract] OR test [Title/Abstract] |
| #4 | Sensitive search filter for psychometric properties published by Terwee et al (Terwee et al, 2009) |
| #5 | #1 AND #2 AND #3 AND #4 |
| #6 | (‘Delphi-technique’[title] OR cross-sectional[title] OR “addresses”[Publication Type] OR “biography”[Publication Type] OR “case reports”[Publication Type] OR “comment”[Publication Type] OR “directory”[Publication Type] OR “editorial”[Publication Type] OR “festschrift”[Publication Type] OR “interview”[Publication Type] OR “lectures”[Publication Type] OR “legal cases”[Publication Type] OR “legislation”[Publication Type] OR “letter”[Publication Type] OR “news”[Publication Type] OR “newspaper article”[Publication Type] OR “patient education handout”[Publication Type] OR “popular works”[Publication Type] OR “congresses”[Publication Type] OR “consensus development conference”[Publication Type] OR “consensus development conference, nih”[Publication Type] OR “practice guideline”[Publication Type]) NOT (“animals”[MeSH Terms] NOT “humans”[MeSH Terms]) |
| #7 | #5 NOT #6 |
MeSH, Medical Subject Headings.