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Table 2 APA Psycinfo sample search strategy

From: Research evidence and implementation gaps in the engagement of people with lived experience in mental health and substance use research: a scoping review

Order

Search term

1

Patient Participation/

2

((patient* or client* or public or “service user*” or youth or consumer* or citizen*) adj2 (participat* or engag* or invol*)).mp.

3

Exp mental health/

4

Mental health.mp.

5

Exp Mental Disorders/

6

Mental disorder*.mp.

7

((mental* or psychiatr* or psycholog*) adj2 (health* or ill* or hygiene or disorder* or distress*)).mp.

8

((drug* or substance* or alcohol*) adj2 (abus* or addict* or depend* or misus* or use* or dependen* or disorder*)).mp.

9

((improv* or strength* or inform* or increase* or impact* or facilitat* or support*) adj3 (research* or method* or design or outcome* or recruit* or study or team*)).tw.

10

(“liv* expertise” or “peer* researcher*” or “co-researcher*” or “expert* by experience*” or “patient* partner*” or “patient* advisor*” or “co-produc*” or “co-design”).mp.

11

1 or 2 or 10

12

3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8

13

9

14

11 and 12 and 13

15

Limit 14 to yr = 2012-Current

  1. Adj is an adjacency operator that searches for a term within n words of another term; mp is a multi-purpose search that queries popular fields such as title, abstract, author-supplied keyword, and heading word; tw is a field code that searches for terms within the title, abstract, and key concepts