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Table 1 Searches on MEDLINE, SCOPUS, WEB OF SCIENCE and CINAHL from inception to May 2020

From: Process evaluations of early childhood obesity prevention interventions delivered via telephone or text messages: a systematic review

 

Number of records Search updated 15/5/2020

Number of records Search conducted 23/5/2019

For MEDLINE (OVID; 1966)

1

exp infant/

1,128,327

1,096,984

2

child, preschool/ or exp. infant, newborn/

1,346,166

1,306,248

3

child*.tw.

1,362,646

1,297,657

4

p?ediatr*.tw.

345,746

321,730

5

newborn*.tw.

159,763

154,057

6

toddler*.tw.

10,743

9884

7

pre?school*.tw.

28,089

26,452

8

babies.tw.

36,506

35,004

9

baby.tw.

37,467

35,675

10

neonat*.tw.

260,610

248,563

11

infan*.tw.

432,073

414,324

12

or/1–11

2,646,778

2,540,388

13

pediatric obesity/

8130

6686

14

p?ediatric obesity.tw.

1327

1226

15

obesity/

177,751

169,076

16

obes*.tw.

292,628

272,156

17

overweight/

24,244

22,316

18

over?weight.tw.

67,592

62,394

19

over?fe*.tw.

2025

1912

20

weight gain/ or weight loss/

64,821

61,683

21

(weight adj4 (loss or gain or excess or increase or decrease)).tw.

171,307

161,199

22

BMI.tw.

139,870

127,847

23

Body mass index.tw.

178,809

164,850

24

body mass index/

124,645

117,367

25

or/13–24

642,516

600,221

26

exp health promotion/

75,732

72,135

27

exp health education/

241,031

232,601

28

(health* adj4 (behavio?r or promot* or educat* or eat* or food*)).tw.

171,123

157,573

29

behavio?r therapy.tw.

6652

6336

30

early intervent*.tw.

18,692

17,152

31

early child*.tw.

26,789

24,884

32

motivat*.tw.

129,595

119,624

33

exp child health services/

24,033

23,215

34

social support*.tw.

38,032

35,119

35

counsel*.tw.

106,490

99,853

36

(parent* adj3 group*).tw.

7327

6943

37

mother* group*.tw.

340

325

38

breastfeeding/

37,064

35,511

39

breast?feed*.tw.

25,812

23,688

40

breast?fed*.tw.

6694

6203

41

((infant* or child*) adj4 (feed* or food* or meal* or diet*)).tw.

35,522

33,342

42

(feeding adj4 (practice* or behavio?r* or style*)).tw.

18,344

17,186

43

solid*.tw.

352,781

328,752

44

(introduc* adj3 solid*).tw.

1389

1292

45

diet*.tw.

552,787

522,485

46

nutr*.tw.

397,898

370,735

47

(diet* adj4 (intake or modification* or habit*)).tw.

66,999

62,921

48

vegetable*.tw.

54,058

50,178

49

fruit*.tw.

104,890

96,805

50

eating habit*.tw.

5276

4862

51

play*.tw.

1,176,268

1,102,335

52

exp exercise/

191,577

178,510

53

physical activit*.tw.

108,536

99,211

54

((screen* or device* or computer* or television* or TV) adj4 time).tw.

18,403

16,937

55

sedentar*.tw.

31,004

28,619

56

supine* position.tw.

10,881

10,400

57

or/26–56

3,247,052

3,048,762

58

pregnant women/

8099

7443

59

(pregnan* adj4 (wom?n or mother*)).tw.

140,528

131,818

60

((ante?natal or pre?natal or post?natal or post?partum or post?birth) adj4 wom?n).tw.

17,970

16,561

61

(expec* adj3 mother*).tw.

1969

1833

62

mothers/

42,794

39,792

63

mother*.tw.

216,584

205,204

64

or/58–63

347,003

327,952

65

12 and 25 and 57 and 64

8097

7401

66

cell phone/ or text messaging/

10,432

9442

67

(mobile* or telephone* or phone* or smart?phone* or cell?phone* or hand?held).tw.

189,480

175,681

68

(text* adj2 messag*).tw.

4048

3474

69

SMS.tw.

5750

5204

70

(mobile* adj3 app*).tw.

7110

5779

71

or/66–70

197,231

182,657

72

65 and 71

220

202

SCOPUS (Elsevier 1980)

 search terms as in MEDLINE

280

237

WEB OF SCIENCE (Clarivate Analytics post-2016, Thomson Reuters pre-2016)

 search terms as in MEDLINE

488

429

CINAHL Complete (EBSCOhost; 1994)

 search terms as in MEDLINE

4

4

  1. Free text terms searched
  2. * truncation
  3. # wildcard
  4. ? wildcard
  5. adj adjacent
  6. .tw textword field includes title and abstract
  7. exp exploded term