Table 3.
Search strategy table – keywords, Boolean combinations and databases.
| Boolean | No | P | No | E | No | O | No | T |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| or | 1 | Male | 12 | Lymphoedema | 27 | Experiences | 44 | Qualitative |
| or | 2 | Man | 13 | Lymphedema | 28 | Life experiences | 45 | Qualitative research |
| or | 3 | Men | 14 | secondary lymphedema | 29 | Narratives | 46 | Qualitative approach |
| or | 4 | Man’s | 15 | secondary lymphoedema | 30 | Stories | 47 | Qualitative Method? |
| or | 5 | Men’s | 16 | chronic oedema | 31 | Perceptions | 48 | Qualitative Methodolog? |
| or | 6 | Adult Male | 17 | chronic edema | 32 | Perception | 49 | Qualitative stud? |
| or | 7 | Adult men | 18 | Primary lymphoedema | 33 | Attitude | 50 | Qualitative inquiry |
| or | 8 | Adult Man | 19 | Primary lymphedema | 34 | Attitudes | 51 | Narrative inquiry |
| or | 9 | Adult men’s | 20 | Cancer related lymphoedema | 35 | Quality of life | 52 | Narrative research |
| or | 10 | Adult man’s | 21 | Cancer related lymphedema | 36 | well-being | 53 | Narrative stud? |
| or | 11 | AND | 22 | Non cancer related lymphoedema | 37 | View | 54 | Narrative analysis |
| 23 | Non cancer related lymphedema | 38 | beliefs | 55 | Ethnography | |||
| 24 | Lower limb lymphoedema | 39 | live experience | 55 | Auto Ethnography | |||
| 25 | Lower limb lymphedema | 40 | perspective | 56 | Phenomenology | |||
| 26 | AND | 41 | Findings | 57 | Grounded theory | |||
| 42 | Accounts | 58 | Case stud? | |||||
| 43 | AND | 59 | AND | |||||
| Combined | 11+26+43+59 (AND) | |||||||
| Databases | Cinahl, Medline, Nursing and Allied Health Database, Psychology Database, PTSD pubs, Public Health Database available via ProQuest. APA PsychArticles, Journals@Ovid, Embase, Ovid Meline, APA Psych info available via Ovid. This extended to the retrieval of grey literature, sources from open grey EU and EThOS offered from the British Library, and Google Scholar | |||||||