Table 1 Example search terms – Medline: (a) qualitative subject headings); (b) qualitative free text terms; (c) pain subject headings; (d) pain free text terms
(I) QUALITATIVE SUBJECT HEADINGS | exp QUALITATIVE RESEARCH exp. INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC exp. FOCUS GROUPS NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH ATTITUDE TO HEALTH |
(II) QUALITATIVE FREE TEXT TERMS | Qualitative ADJ5 (theor* OR study OR studies OR research OR analysis) ethno.ti,ab emic OR etic. ti,ab phenomenolog*.ti,ab hermeneutic*.ti,ab heidegger* OR husserl* OR colaizzi* OR giorgi* OR glaser OR strauss OR (van AND kaam*) OR (van AND manen) OR ricoeur OR spiegelberg* OR merleau).ti,ab constant ADJ3 compar*.ti,ab focus ADJ3 group*.ti,ab grounded ADJ3 (theor* OR study OR studies OR research OR analysis).ti,ab narrative ADJ3 analysis.ti,ab discourse ADJ3 analysis.ti,ab (lived OR life) ADJ3 experience*.ti,ab (theoretical OR purposive) ADJ3 sampl*.ti,ab (field ADJ note*) OR (field ADJ record*) OR fieldnote*.ti,ab participant* ADJ3 observ*.ti,ab action ADJ research.ti,ab (digital ADJ record) OR audiorecord* OR taperecord* OR videorecord* OR videotap*).ti,ab (cooperative AND inquir*) OR (co AND operative AND inquir*) OR (co-operative AND inquir*) .ti,ab (semi-structured OR semistructured OR unstructured OR structured) ADJ3 interview*.ti,ab (informal OR in-depth OR indepth OR “in depth”) ADJ3 interview*.ti,ab (“face-to-face” OR “face to face”) ADJ3 interview*.ti,ab “IPA” OR “interpretative phenomenological analysis”.ti,ab “appreciative inquiry”.ti,ab (social AND construct*) OR (postmodern* OR post-structural*) OR (post structural* OR poststructural*) OR (post modern*) OR post-modern* OR feminis*).ti,ab humanistic OR existential OR experiential.ti,ab |
(III) PAIN SUBJECT HEADINGS | exp BACK PAIN/OR exp. CHRONIC PAIN/OR exp. LOW BACK PAIN/OR exp. MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN/OR exp. PAIN/OR exp. PAIN CLINICS/. exp. FIBROMYALGIA/ exp. PAIN MANAGEMENT/ |
(IV) PAIN FREE TEXT TERMS | (chronic* OR persistent* OR long-stand* OR longstand* OR unexplain* OR un-explain*) fibromyalgia “back ache” OR back-ache OR backache “pain clinic” OR pain-clinic* pain adj5 syndrome* |