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Table 1 Details of the search strategy

From: Protocol for a systematic review of psychological interventions for cancer-related fatigue in post-treatment cancer survivors

 

Search term

1

(“cancer survivors” or neoplasm or survivor or cancer or remission)

2

(Psychology or Psychotherapy or Behaviour Therapy or hypnosis or relaxation or imagery or cognition or psychotherapy or cognitive)

3

(fatigue or asthenia or asthenic or asthenia or (exhaustion or exhausted) or “loss of energy” or “loss of vitality” or (weary or weariness or weakness) or (apathy or apathetic or lassitude or lethargic or lethargy) or (sleepy or sleepiness or drowsy or drowsiness) or (tired or tiredness))

4

(randomized controlled trial or controlled clinical trial or “random assignment”)