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Table 1 Search strategy and terms

From: Parents’ experiences of life after medicalised conception: a thematic meta-synthesis of the qualitative literature

 

Framework

Search terms used

1

Sample (S)

Parent* OR Mothera OR women OR Woman OR partnera OR Lone parena OR same sex couplea OR Same sex parenta OR couplea OR fathera

2

Phenomenon of Interest (PI)

Assisted reproduction OR Medicali#ed conception OR In Vitro Fertili#ation OR IVF OR Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection OR ICSI OR Fertility treatment OR Subfertila OR Assisted reproductive techna or Assisted reproductive treatmena or Medically assisted conception or MAC or ART

5

Research type (R)

Qualitative OR Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis OR IPA ORThematic Analysis OR Grounded Theory OR Content analysis OR Narrativea

  1. The above were connected in the following way: S AND PI AND R
  2. aTruncation used to broaden search terms to include various word endings and spellings