Table 1.
Search terms used
| Search terms used | ||
| Search term 1 ‘adolescen* OR girl* OR teenage* OR youth* OR young OR pre-adolescen* OR school-girl OR Out-of-School-Youth OR OOSY OR female OR woman AND Search term 2 Menstrua* OR menarche* OR mense* OR catamenia OR menarche* OR menstrual health OR menstrual hygiene OR menstrual management OR sanitation OR menstrual etiquette AND Search term 3 know* OR understand*OR manage* OR learn* OR apprehen* OR comprehensi* OR educat* OR aware* OR familiar* OR proficien* AND Search term 4 AND arrangement* OR evaluat* OR initiative* OR intervention*OR model* OR package* OR pilot* OR program* OR project* OR provision* OR regime* OR scheme* OR strateg* OR trial* OR approach* OR polic* | ||
| Database returns | ||
| Database | Search terms and filters | Returns |
| ASSIA (proquest) | 1 (ab), 2 (ti), 3 (ab), 4 (ab) 01/01/14 to 01/09/19 |
15 |
| CINAHL | 1 (ab), 2 (ti), 3 (ab), 4 (ab) 01/01/14 to 01/09/19 |
126 |
| EMBASE Including MEDLINE |
1 (ab), 2 (ti), 3 (ab), 4 (ab) 2014–2019 English, Female |
732 |
| Sociological abstracts (proquest) | 1 (ab), 2 (ti), 3 (ab), 4 (ab) 01/01/14 to 01/09/19 |
14 |
| Web of Science | TS=(1), (3), (4) AND Ti=(2) Last 5 years |
323 |
| IBBS (proquest) | 1 (ab), 2 (ti), 3 (ab), 4 (ab) 01/01/14 to 01/09/19 |
26 |
| TRoPHI (Eppi centre, google) | No wild cards Title Menstruation and Knowledge 2014–2019 |
4 |
| TOTAL SAVED to EXCEL | 1240 | |