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Table 1 Sample search strategy

From: Should we ‘hug a hoodie’? Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions with young people not in employment, education or training (so-called NEETs)

 

Sample search strategy

1

Adolescen*

2

Child*

3

Teen*

4

Youth*

5

Young*

6

Student*

7

Minors

8

Juvenile

24

1 OR 2 OR 3 OR 4 OR 5 OR 6 OR 7 OR 8

9

NEET

10

Unemploy*

11

‘Out of work’

12

‘Socially excluded’

13

Disadvantaged

14

‘Not in work’

15

‘Not in Employment’

16

‘Not in education’

25

9 OR 10 OR 11 OR 12 OR 13 OR 14 OR 15 OR 16

17

‘Randomised controlled trial’

18

‘Randomized controlled trial’

19

‘Cluster trial’

20

‘Clinical trial’

21

‘Control* trial’

22

‘Control group’

23

‘Experimental group’

26

17 OR 18 OR 19 OR 20 OR 21 OR 22 OR 23

27

24 AND 25

28

24 AND 26

29

25 AND 26

30

24 AND 25 AND 26