Appendix C.
Database Screening Results By Search Terms
| Keywords searching results / Number of Studies Identified (N) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data Base | Ebscohost | Web of Science | Pubmed | SCOPUS | PsycINFO | PROQuest | Ethos | Google Scholar | |
| Search Terms Date of search | 18/01/2021 22/01/2021 |
23/01/2021 26/01/2021 |
27/01/2021 31/01/2021 |
01/02/2021 03/02/2021 |
04/02/2021 06/02/2021 |
07/02/2021 10/02/2021 |
11/02/2021 12/02/2021 |
13/02/2021 14/02/2021 |
Total Identified |
| Play (Title) AND “Language” (Title & Abstract) | 2160 / 321 | 1553 / 153 | 7080 / 155 | 617 / 54 | 298 / 69 | 620 / 58 | 13 / 3 | Not Screened | 813 |
| Play (Title) AND “Speech” (Title & Abstract) | 610 / 36 | 75 / 12 | 91 / 21 | 130 / 9 | 40 / 7 | 47 / 4 | 3 / 1 | Not Screened | 90 |
| Play (Title) AND “Communication” (Title) | 174 / 24 | 254 / 20 | 146 / 21 | 519 / 28 | 142 / 33 | 216 / 33 | 20 / 4 | Not Screened | 163 |
| Play (Title) AND “specific Language Impairment” (Title & Abstract) | 2/2 | 4 / 4 | 3 / 2 | 2 / 2 | 4 / 3 | 3 / 2 | 4 / - | Not Screened | 15 |
| Play (Title) AND “Developmental Language Disorder” (Title & Abstract) | 5 / 5 | 2 / 2 | 2 / 2 | 3 / 2 | 27 / 6 | - | - | Not Screened | 17 |
| Play (Title) AND Autis* (Title & Abstract) | 477 / 396 | 370 / 321 | 298 / 220 | 504 / 307 | 459 / 399 | 146 / 39 | 130 / 19 | Not Screened | 1701 |
| Play (Title) AND Pervasive Develop* (Title & Abstract & Field) | 124 / 104 | 15 / 3 | - | 53 / 2 | 1 / - | - | 6 / - | Not Screened | 109 |
| Play (Title) AND Asperger (Title & Abstract & Field) | 19 / 8 | 21 / 11 | 6 / 3 | 8 / 5 | 3 / 2 | 10 / 5 | 12 / 1 | Not Screened | 35 |
| Play (Title) AND “SLI*” (Title & Abstract & Full Text) | 23 / 6 | 5 / 2 | 3 / 2 | - | 4 / - | - | 7 / 1 | Not Screened | 11 |
| Joint Attention, Symbolic Play, Engagement & Regulation (Title) AND Autis* (Title) | 3 / 3 | 5 / 5 | 6 / 6 | 1 / 1 | 1 / 1 | 1 / 1 | - | 11 / 11 | 28 |
| Advancing Social-communication (Title) AND Play (Title) | 3 / 3 | 4 / 4 | 2 / 2 | 1 / 1 | 5 / 2 | 1 / 1 | - | 5 / 5 | 18 |
| DIR: Floortime (Title) | 15 / 11 | 26 / 9 | 12 / 8 | 12 / 4 | 50 / 15 | 10 / 7 | 1 / 1 | 105 / 13 | 68 |
| Child-Centered Play Therapy (Title) AND Autis* (Title & Abstract & Full Text) | 9 / 5 | - | - | 1 / 1 | 187 / 5 | 4 / 4 | - | 23 / 10 | 25 |
| Filial therapy (Title) | 46 / - | 17 / - | 4 / - | 74 / 1 | 212 / 2 | 83 / - | - | 3 / 2 | 5 |
| Lego (Title) AND Autis* (Title & Abstract & Full Text) | 47 / 20 | 11 / 9 | 9 / 7 | 14 / 11 | 30 / 12 | 10 / 10 | 8 / 6 | 43 / 31 | 106 |
| Lego (Title) AND Language (Title & Abstract & Full Text) | 145 / 4 | 59 / 1 | 4 / 1 | 19 / 1 | 40 / 3 | 3 / 1 | - | 40 / 2 | 13 |
| Lego (Title) AND Speech (Title & Abstract & Full Text) | 36 / - | - | - | 8 / 2 | 24 / 1 | - | 3 / - | 12 / - | 3 |
| Lego (Title) AND Communication (Title & Abstract) | 35 / 2 | 61 / 3 | 7 / 3 | 86 / 19 | 1 / - | 4 / 1 | 15 / 4 | 43 / 4 | 36 |
| Canine-assisted play (Title) | 1 / 1 | - | - | 1 / 1 | 2 / 2 | 1 / - | - | 5 / 2 | 6 |
| Theraplay (Title) | 27 / 3 | 26 / 2 | 5 / - | 28 / 5 | 66 / 8 | 19 / 1 | 1 / - | 11 / 8 | 27 |
| Jungian Play (Title) | 42 / 1 | - | 45 / - | 6 / 1 | 3 / - | - | - | 22 / 1 | 3 |
| Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) (Title) | 96 / 12 | 61 / 33 | 34 / 27 | 60 / 30 | 60 / 38 | 56 / 39 | - | 168 / 40 | 219 |
| Results | |||||||||
| Number of Studies Screened | 4099 | 2569 | 7755 | 2147 | 1659 | 1234 | 223 | 514 | 19995 |
| Number of Studies Identified | 625 | 516 | 384 | 383 | 561 | 187 | 39 | 128 | 2823 |
| Records identified Through other sources | 59 | ||||||||
| Total Number of Studies Carried to Abstract Screening | 2882 | ||||||||
Note. Limiter: Studies published between January 1st, 2000- January 15th, 2021.