Table 2.
Search strategy for PsycINFO (Ovid)a.
| # | Searches | Results | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search history sorted by search number ascending | |||
| 1 | (pcbd or pgd or ((Complex or complicated or prolonged or persist* or traumat* or pathological) adj2 (bereave* or grief or grieving or mourn*))).ti,ab. | 2,541 | Advanced |
| 2 | exp Post-traumatic Stress Disorder/or exp acute stress disorder/or exp combat experience/or exp Emotional Trauma/or exp Post-Traumatic Stress/or exp Stress Reactions/or trauma/or exp traumatic neurosis/or (psychotrauma* or Trauma or PTSD or DES*NOS or C*PTSD or EPCACE or multitrauma or traumatized or traumatized or DTD or “Enduring Personality Change after Catastrophic Experience*” or (Stress adj3 disorder*) or ((combat or war) adj3 (experience* or disorder* or fatigue or neurosis or neuroses or stress)) or ((Emotional or Complex or chronic or Complicated or Multiple) adj3 Trauma*) or (acute adj3 Stress) or ((Stress or Crisis) adj3 Reaction*) or ((Post-Traumatic or post-traumatic or Trauma*) adj3 (stress or neurosis or neuroses or syndrome* or Disorder* or psychosis or psychoses or distress*)) or (Shell adj1 Shock) or (Compassion adj3 Fatigue) or (type adj3 trauma) or (trauma adj2 (stressor adj2 disorders))).ti,ab. | 115,582 | Advanced |
| 3 | exp grief/or exp bereavement/or (bereave* or bereft or grief* or grieving or griever* or mourn* or sorrow* or lament*).ti,ab,id. | 25,838 | Advanced |
| 4 | Treatment/or exp Cognitive Behavior Therapy/or exp Behavior Therapy/or exp Psychotherapy/or (treatment* or intervention* or therapy or therapies or therapeutic* or psychotherapy or psychotherapies or psychotherapeutic* or program* or session* or BEPP or BEP-TG or CGT or “complicated grief treatment” or “Finding Meaning in Loss” or cbt or Abreact* or Autosuggesti* or Bibliotherap* or catharsis or countertransferen* or ECT or Hypno* or Jocotherap* or katharsis or logotherapy or mindful* or narcotherapy or psychopharmacotherapy* or Self-Analy* or sociotherap* or transferen* or EMDR or “eye movement desensiti*” or CBSM or desensitization or desensitization or “psychiatric somatic therap*” or (brief adj3 eclectic) or (psychiatric adj3 (treatment* or intervention* or therap*)) or ((anger or assertive* or autogen* or behavio* or milieu or relaxation) adj3 training) or (behavio* adj3 contract*) or ((legal or involuntary or psychiatric or psychiatric) adj3 commitment) or ((transact* or behavior*) adj3 analysis) or (cognitive adj3 (behavior* or rehabilit*)) or (relax* adj3 (method* or Techni*)) or (role adj3 play*) or ((systematic or psychologic) adj3 desensiti*) or ((involuntary or compulsory) adj3 (admission or hospitali*)) or (Balint adj3 group*) or (behavior* adj3 modification) or ((auto or self) adj3 suggestion) or (free adj3 association) or (anger adj3 management) or (family adj3 psychiatry) or (guided adj3 imagery) or (analytical adj3 psychology) or ((imaginal or vivo) adj3 exposure)).ti,ab. | 1,536,756 | Advanced |
| 5 | exp evidence based practice/or exp Treatment Effectiveness Evaluation/or Clinical Trials/or Mental Health Program Evaluation/or Placebo/or ((evidence adj1 (base* or inform*)) or empirical or | 2,217,492 | Advanced |
| cohort or (case and (comparison or referent)) or risk or causation or causal or “odds ratio” or etiol* or etiol* or “natural history” or predict* or prognos* or outcome or course or retrospect* or “clinical trial” or ((singl* or doubl* or trebl* or tripl*) and (mask* or blind*)) or “latin square” or placebo* or random* or control or controll* or prospectiv* or volunteer* or “research design” or ((comparative or evaluation or follow-up or prospective or cross-over) adj1 stud*) or (disability and evaluation*) or ((statistical or Probabilistic or Polynomial or “two parameter*” or “2 parameter*” or Binomial) and (model or models)) or (likelihood and (functions or function or estimat*)) or ((linear or loglinear or logistic) and (model or models or regression*)) or ((time or risk or risks) and (factor or factors)) or regression* or multivariate or (recover* and (function or functions)) or sensitivit* or “area under curve*” or auc or prognos* or placebo* or randomly or randomi* or trial or ((singl* or doubl* or trebl* or tripl*) adj3 (blind* or mask* or dummy)) or (control* adj3 (trial* or study or studies or group*)) or factorial* or allocat* or assign* or volunteer* or crossover* or “cross over*” or (quasi adj5 (experimental or random*)) or groups).ti,ab. | |||
| 6 | (cohort* or longitudinal or prospective or retrospective or timeserie* or followup or (repeated adj1 measure*) or (pre adj1 post) or (time adj1 serie*) or (follow adj1 up) or (panel adj3 stud*)).ti,ab. | 344,535 | Advanced |
| 7 | Literature Review/or Meta Analysis/or Treatment Guidelines/or ((reviews.dt. or (review or “systematic review”).pt.) and systemat*.ti,ab.) or (“systematic review” or “systematic literature” or “integrative review” or “integrative literature” or “evidence-based review” or “evidence-based overview” or “evidence-based literature” or “evidence-based survey” or “literature search”).ti,ab. or (“data synthesis” or “evidence synthesis” or “data extraction” or “study selection”).ti,ab. or “cochrane database syst rev.”jn,jx,jw. or (meta-analy* or metaanaly* or metanaly*).ti,ab. or meta*.dt. or “meta analysis”.pt. or (meta-synthesis or metasynthesis or meta-study or metastudy or metaethnograph* or meta-ethnograph*).ti,ab. or hta.ti,ab. or (“health technol assess” or “evid rep technol assess summ”).jn,jx,jw. or “health technology assessment”.ti,ab. or (guideline or framework or manual protocol).ti,ab. | 259,425 | Advanced |
| 8 | (1 or (2 and 3)) and 4 and (5 or 6 or 7) | 1,576 | Advanced |
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The search strategies in the following search systems were adapted further as follows.
Ovid Medline: because “trauma” in Medline often refers to physical trauma, these terms were left out of the search in set 2: trauma, multitrauma, traumatized, traumatized, ((Complex or chronic or Complicated or Multiple) adj3 Trauma*), (type adj3 trauma).
Embase (Ovid): because “trauma” in Embase often refers to physical trauma, these terms were left out of the search in set 2: trauma, multitrauma, traumatized, traumatized, ((Complex or chronic or Complicated or Multiple) adj3 Trauma*), (type adj3 trauma). Also, “PCBD” and “PGD” rendered a lot of irrelevant results and were taken out of set 1.
PTSDpubs: the elaborate search strategy caused PTSDpubs to jam, so we pruned the search strategy strongly, using mainly subject terms where possible.
TRIP: our free version does not support complex search strategies, so we used a simplified search string.
NICE, ICRP, OpenGrey: these search systems do not support complex search strategies, so we used a simplified search string.