Annexure1:

Detailed search strategy used for each database

S.No.	Database	Search terms	Number of studies identified
1	PubMed	(((India*)) AND ((“polycystic ovarian syndrome” (MeSH) OR PCOD OR PCOS OR “Stein Leventhal Syndrome” OR “polycystic ovarian disease”))) AND (prevalence OR proportion) Filters: Abstract, Free full text, Female	16
2	Embase	‘ovary polycystic disease’/exp OR ‘ovary polycystic disease’ OR PCOS OR pcod AND ‘India’/exp OR India AND ‘Prevalence’/exp OR Prevalence OR proportion AND (‘clinical study’/de OR ‘cohort analysis’/de OR ‘comparative study’/de OR ‘correlational study’/de OR ‘cross sectional study’/de OR ‘human’/de OR ‘multicenter study’/de OR ‘observational study’/de OR ‘prospective study’/de OR ‘questionnaire’/de OR ‘retrospective study’/de OR ‘structured questionnaire’/de) AND [female]/lim AND (‘Article’/it OR ‘Article in Press’/it OR ‘Conference Abstract’/it OR ‘Conference Paper’/it) AND ([adolescent]/lim OR [adult]/lim OR [middle aged]/lim OR [young adult]/lim)	190
3	Scopus	(TITLE-ABS-KEY (india* ) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY (polycystic AND ovarian AND disease OR pcos OR pcod ) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY (prevalence OR proportion ) ) AND (LIMIT-TO (PUBSTAGE, “final” ) OR LIMIT-TO (PUBSTAGE, “aip” ) ) AND (LIMIT-TO (ACCESSTYPE(OA) ) OR LIMIT-TO (ACCESSTYPE(OTHER) ) ) AND (LIMIT-TO (AFFILCOUNTRY, “India” ) ) AND (LIMIT-TO (DOCTYPE, “ar” ) OR LIMIT-TO (DOCTYPE, “cp” ) ) AND (LIMIT-TO (LANGUAGE, “English” ) )	41