Search Strategies for a Systematic Review of Community violence Exposure, Physical Activity and Mental Health

Abstract

To identify studies to include or consider for this systematic review, the review team worked with a medical librarian (SR) to develop detailed search strategies for each database. The searches were conducted following the PRISMA-S extension for search reporting. The medical librarian (SR) designed the original search strategies for PubMed (NLM) and the search translations for every database. The PubMed (NLM) search strategy was reviewed by the research team to check for accuracy and term relevancy, the librarian (SR) reviewed all the completed search strategies for errors. However, a limitation of the search was that it was not peer-reviewed by another librarian . The databases included in this search were PubMed (NLM), Embase (Elsevier), Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), Cochrane Central (Wiley) PsycInfo (EbscoHost), and SPORTdiscus (EbscoHost) using a combination of keywords and subject headings. A grey literature search included a clinical trials registry (clinicaltrials.gov) and the Society of Behavioral Medicine (https://www.sbm.org/) website . The search was limited to exclude review articles with no date restrictions. All final searches were performed on November 30, 2022 by a medical librarian and were fully reported (JB ).