Social influence on Tobacco Use in Sexual and Gender Minority Populations Search Strategy

Abstract

To identify studies to include or consider for this rapid review, the review team worked with a medical librarian (TN) to develop detailed search strategies for each database. The PRISMA-S extension was followed for search reporting. The medical librarian (TN) developed the search for PubMed (NLM) and translated the search for every database searched. The PubMed (NLM) search strategy was reviewed by the research team to check for accuracy and term relevancy, and all final searches were peer-reviewed by another medical librarian following the PRESS Peer Review of Electronic Search Strategies checklist. The Transgender search hedge used in this search was borrowed from the Library Resources for Transgender Topics libguide (1). The databases included in this search are PubMed (NLM), PsycInfo (EbscoHost), Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ProQuest), and Cochrane CENTRAL (Wiley) using a combination of keywords and subject headings. A grey literature search included the clinical trials registries (clinicaltrials.gov) and WHO ICTRP (https://trialsearch.who.int/), MedRxiv (https://medrxiv.org) and the TRIP Pro medical database (tripdatabase.com) websites. No limits were used in this search. All final searches were performed on June 29, 2022 by the librarian and were fully reported (TN). The full search strategies as reported by the librarian are provided in Appendix.