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Table 1 Search terms

From: Balancing the struggle to live with dementia: a systematic meta-synthesis of coping

Dementia

Experience

AGELINE

Dement* OR Presenile dement* OR Senile dement* OR Alzheimer* OR Multi-infarct dement* OR Lewy Body dement* OR Vascular dement* OR Frontotemporal dement*] TX [all text]

OR [dementia OR alzheimers disease OR alzheimers* OR lewy body*] SU [Subject]

AGELINE

[Personal experience* OR Experience* OR Lived experience* OR Life experience* OR Patient experience* OR Subjective experience* OR First-person] TX

AND [nursing methodologies OR case study OR constant comparison OR content analysis OR descriptive study OR discourse analysis OR ethnography OR exploratory OR feminist OR grounded theory OR hermeneutic OR interview OR narrative OR naturalistic OR participant observation OR phenomenology OR qualitative research OR qualitative methods OR qualitative study]

CINAHL

[Dementia OR Dementia, presenile OR Dementia, senile OR Alzheimer’s disease OR Dementia, multi-infarct OR Lewy Body Disease OR Dementia, vascular] MESH

OR [Dement* OR Presenile dement* OR Senile dement* OR Alzheimer* OR Multi-infarct dement* OR Lewy Body dement* OR Vascular dement* OR Frontotemporal dement*] TX [all text]

CINAHL

[Life N1 Experience] OR [Personal experience* OR Experience* OR Lived experience* OR Life experience* OR Patient experience* OR Subjective experience* OR First-person] TX

EMBASE

[Dementia OR Dementia, presenile OR Dementia, senile OR Alzheimer’s disease OR Dementia, multi-infarct OR Lewy Body Disease OR Dementia, vascular OR Dementia, frontotemporal] Keyword [KW]

OR [Dement* OR Presenile dement* OR Senile dement* OR Alzheimer* OR Multi-infarct dement* OR Lewy Body dement* OR Vascular dement* OR Frontotemporal dement*] TW

EMBASE:

[Personal experience* OR Experience* OR Lived experience* OR Life experience* OR Patient experience* OR Subjective experience* OR First-person] TW

MEDLINE

[Dementia OR Dementia, presenile OR Dementia, senile OR Alzheimer’s disease OR Dementia, multi-infarct OR Lewy Body Disease OR Dementia, vascular] MESH

OR [Dement* OR Presenile dement* OR Senile dement* OR Alzheimer* OR Multi-infarct dement* OR Lewy Body dement* OR Vascular dement* OR Frontotemporal dement*] TW

MEDLINE

AND [Personal experience* OR Experience* OR Lived experience* OR Life experience* OR Patient experience* OR Subjective experience* OR First-person] TW

PSYCHINFO

[Dementia OR Dementia, presenile OR Dementia, senile OR Alzheimer’s disease OR Dementia, multi-infarct OR Lewy Body Disease OR Dementia, vascular] MESH

OR [Dement* OR Presenile dement* OR Senile dement* OR Alzheimer* OR Multi-infarct dement* OR Lewy Body dement* OR Vascular dement* OR Frontotemporal dement*] Tw

PSYCHINFOR

[Life Experience] Mesh OR [Personal experience* OR Experience* OR Lived experience* OR Life experience* OR Patient experience* OR Subjective experience* OR First-person] TW