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Search strategy and syntax
| Search terms | Resources |
|---|---|
| Population | |
| Adults | |
| Setting | |
| Mental hospital | |
| Psychiatric hospital | |
| Mental asylums | Bibliographic and journal databases |
| Psychiatric institutions | APA PsychINFO |
| PubMed/medline | |
| Intervention | Cochrane reviews |
| Reform | Web of science |
| Change | Scopus |
| Modernisation | |
| Improvement | |
| Deinstitutionalisation | |
| Location | |
| Low and middle-income countries (lower, mid, and upper mid income) as defined by the World Bank—137 countries |
