Search strategies for "Patient, family, healthcare worker and research community perspectives on prevention, screening, diagnosis and management of Human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV): a qualitative evidence synthesis"

This file contains details of all searches run for this evidence synthesis. A draft search strategy was compiled in the Ovid Medline ALL database by an experienced information professional. The search strategy included strings of terms, synonyms and subject headings to reflect the following concepts: Human T-lymphotropic virus and perspectives or qualitative research. No limitations were added to the search. The search strategy was refined with the project team until the retrieved results reflected the scope of the project. Once agreed, the draft searches were adapted for each database to incorporate database-specific syntax and controlled vocabularies. The following databases were searched on 27-29 May 2026 - EBSCOhost Africa-Wide Information, EBSCOhost CINAHL Complete, Ovid Embase Classic+Embase, Ovid Global Health, WHO Global Index Medicus, Ovid Medline ALL, Clarivate Analytics Web of Science SciELO Citation Index, Elsevier Scopus, and Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Core Collection (selected segments). The databases were chosen to ensure research published or produced in relevant regions of the world were retrieved.

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