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

Search Methods for Identification of Studies: To identify studies to include or consider for this systematic review, the review team worked with a medical librarian to develop detailed search strategies for each database. The search was developed for PubMed (NLM) and was translated to 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 ClinicalTrials.gov and searching conference proceedings. The search excluded review articles but without any date restrictions. The final search was completed on March 22, 2021. The full search details are provided in Appendices. PubMed (NLM) from inception to 3/22/2021 (5,272 Results) Embase (Elsevier) from inception to 3/22/2021 (7,810 Results) Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) from inception to 3/22/2021 (5,877 Results) Cochrane Central (Wiley) from inception to 3/22/2021 (2,618 Results) PsycInfo (EbscoHost) from inception to 3/22/2021 (5,591 Results) SPORTdiscus (EbscoHost) from inception to 3/22/2021 (3,207 Results) The search resulted in 30,411 studies (36 from grey literature sources). 6,226 duplicate studies were found and omitted using Endnote X.7 for the deduplication of records and 24,185 references were eligible to screen. Studies were screened by title and abstract by two blinded and independent reviewers using the systematic review tool, Rayyan. If a tiebreaker was needed, a third reviewer was called in. This process was repeated for full text article screening and article selection.