Source	Search strategy
Airways Register (CRS) (Date of most recent search: 23 January 2020)	1 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive Explode All 2 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Bronchitis, Chronic 3 (obstruct*) near3 (pulmonary or lung* or airway* or airflow* or bronch* or respirat*) 4 COPD:MISC1 5 (COPD OR COAD OR COBD):TI,AB,KW 6 #1 OR #2 OR #3 OR #4 OR #5 7 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Self Care Explode All 8 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Education 9 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Patient Education as Topic 10 educat* 11 self‐manag* 12 self manag* 13 self‐car* or "self car*" 14 train* or instruct* 15 patient cent* or patient‐cent* 16 patient‐focus* or "patient focus*" 17 patient‐education or "patient education" 18 management plan or management‐plan 19 management* NEAR1 program* 20 behavior* or behaviour* 21 disease* NEAR2 management* 22 self‐efficac* 23 empower* 24 #7 or #8 or #9 or #10 or #11 or #12 or #13 or #14 or #15 or #16 or #17 or #18 or #19 or #20 or #21 or #22 or #23 25 #6 and #24
CENTRAL (CRS) (Date of most recent search: 23 January 2020)	1 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive Explode All 2 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Bronchitis, Chronic 3 (obstruct*) near3 (pulmonary or lung* or airway* or airflow* or bronch* or respirat*) 4 COPD:MISC1 5 (COPD OR COAD OR COBD):TI,AB,KW 6 #1 OR #2 OR #3 OR #4 OR #5 7 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Self Care Explode All 8 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Education 9 MeSH DESCRIPTOR Patient Education as Topic 10 educat* 11 self‐manag* 12 self manag* 13 self‐car* or "self car*" 14 train* or instruct* 15 patient cent* or patient‐cent* 16 patient‐focus* or "patient focus*" 17 patient‐education or "patient education" 18 management plan or management‐plan 19 management* NEAR1 program* 20 behavior* or behaviour* 21 disease* NEAR2 management* 22 self‐efficac* 23 empower* 24 #7 or #8 or #9 or #10 or #11 or #12 or #13 or #14 or #15 or #16 or #17 or #18 or #19 or #20 or #21 or #22 or #23 25 #6 and #24
MEDLINE (Ovid) (Date of most recent search: 23 January 2020)	1. exp Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/ 2. (obstruct$ adj3 (pulmonary or lung$ or airway$ or airflow$ or bronch$ or respirat$)).tw. 3. (COPD or AECOPD or AECB).tw. 4. or/1‐3 5. Self Care/ 6. Self‐Management/ 7. Education/ 8. Patient Education as Topic/ 9. educat$.ti,ab. 10. (self‐manag$ or self manage$).tw. 11. (self‐car$ or self car$).tw. 12. (patient cent$ or patient‐cent$).tw. 13. (patient‐focus$ or patient focus$).tw. 14. (management adj2 (plan$ or program$)).tw. 15. (behavior$ or behaviour$).tw. 16. (disease* adj2 management$).tw. 17. (self‐efficac$ or self efficac$).tw. 18. empower$.tw. 19. or/5‐18 20. 4 and 19 21. (controlled clinical trial or randomized controlled trial).pt. 22. (randomized or randomised).ab,ti. 23. placebo.ab,ti. 24. randomly.ab,ti. 25. trial.ab,ti. 26. groups.ab,ti. 27. or/21‐26 28. Animals/ 29. Humans/ 30. 28 not (28 and 29) 31. 27 not 30 32. 20 and 31 33. limit 32 to yr="2011 ‐Current"
EMBASE (Ovid) (Date of most recent search: 23 January 2020)	1. chronic obstructive lung disease/ 2. (obstruct$ adj3 (pulmonary or lung$ or airway$ or airflow$ or bronch$ or respirat$)).tw. 3. (COPD or AECOPD or AECB).tw. 4. or/1‐3 5. exp self care/ 6. education/ 7. patient education/ 8. educat$.ti,ab. 9. (self‐manag$ or self manage$).tw. 10. (self‐car$ or self car$).tw. 11. (patient cent$ or patient‐cent$).tw. 12. (patient‐focus$ or patient focus$).tw. 13. (management adj2 (plan$ or program$)).tw. 14. (behavior$ or behaviour$).tw. 15. (disease* adj2 management$).tw. 16. (self‐efficac$ or self efficac$).tw. 17. empower$.tw. 18. or/5‐17 19. 4 and 18 20. Randomized Controlled Trial/ 21. randomization/ 22. controlled clinical trial/ 23. Double Blind Procedure/ 24. Single Blind Procedure/ 25. Crossover Procedure/ 26. (clinica$ adj3 trial$).tw. 27. ((singl$ or doubl$ or trebl$ or tripl$) adj3 (mask$ or blind$ or method$)).tw. 28. exp Placebo/ 29. placebo$.ti,ab. 30. random$.ti,ab. 31. ((control$ or prospectiv$) adj3 (trial$ or method$ or stud$)).tw. 32. (crossover$ or cross‐over$).ti,ab. 33. or/20‐32 34. exp animals/ or exp invertebrate/ or animal experiment/ or animal model/ or animal tissue/ or animal cell/ or nonhuman/ 35. human/ or normal human/ or human cell/ 36. 34 and 35 37. 34 not 36 38. 33 not 37 39. 19 and 38 40. limit 39 to yr="2011 ‐Current"
Clinicaltrial.gov (Date of most recent search: 23 January 2020)	Study type: Interventional Condition: copd Intervention: self‐management
WHO trials registry (Date of most recent search: 23 January 2020)	Condition: copd Intervention: self‐management