Search strategies for retrieval of references for effective interventions to support the resilience and mental health of frontline health and social care staff during a global health crisis and following de-escalation

These searches were designed constructed between April and May 2020 to support a series of evidence reviews designed to retrieve all potential references for interventions or management strategies to support the resilience and mental health of frontline health and social care staff during a global health crisis and following de-escalation.

This series of evidence reviews aim to answer the following questions:
1. What research evidence is there relating to the resilience and mental health of health and social care professionals during, and after, a disease outbreak, epidemic or pandemic? (Stage 1. Scoping review);
2. What are the most effective interventions to support the resilience and mental health of these health and social care professionals, during, and after, a disease outbreak, epidemic or pandemic? (Stage 2a. Cochrane systematic review of evidence of effectiveness); and
3. What are the barriers and facilitators that may impact on the implementation of effective interventions to support the resilience and mental health of these health and social care professionals, during, and after, a disease outbreak, epidemic or pandemic? (Stage 2b. Systematic review of factors affecting implementation).

The protocol search strategy was designed for MEDLINE Ovid, and adapted for use in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) in the Cochrane Library, Embase Ovid, Web of Science Indexes, PsycINFO Ovid, CINAHL EBSCO (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), Global Index Medicus databases, the WHO Library Database (WHO IRIS) (Institutional Repository for Information Sharing), US National Institutes of Health Ongoing Trials Register ClinicalTrials.gov, the World Health Organization (WHO) International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP), and Google Scholar using the 2dSearch interface.

Each search strategy contains separate search lines and incorporates a combination of uncontrolled vocabulary/keywords and controlled vocabulary terms for (a) resilience and mental health interventions, (b) health and social care personnel, and (c) pandemics, epidemics and health outbreaks. Boolean operators and proximity operators were used to maximise sensitivity and recall where available. Publication date were restricted to publication from 2002 onwards using date limiter functions.

Cheyne, JD. (2020). Search strategies for retrieval of references for effective interventions to support the resilience and mental health of frontline health and social care staff during a global health crisis and following de-escalation, [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. Cochrane Stroke Group. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/2947.