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Table 1 Main search: search terms and databases

From: Utilisation of medical rehabilitation services by persons of working age with a migrant background, in comparison to non-migrants: a scoping review

Databases and grey literature*

Search term 1

Search term 2

Search term 3

Search term 4

 

AND combinations of search words

Cochrane, PROSPERO, Bielefeld University Library catalogue, Base, Public Health Forum, Psyindex/info

rehabilitation

   

rehabilitation

migra*

  

rehabilitation

migration(*)

migrant

migration(*)

rehabilitation

migra*

German

 

Rehadat

Migration

   

Conference abstracts of the Rehabilitation Science Colloquium of the German Pension Insurance (DRV)

Migra*

   

Livivo

rehabilitation

migration

Germany

 

rehabilitation

migrants

  
 

AND and OR combinations of search words

PubMed

((tertiary prevention[MeSH] OR rehabilitation[MeSH Terms]) OR recovery) AND ((human migration[MeSH Terms] OR (immigrants and emigrants) OR non-German OR migration background[Text Word] OR transients and migrants[Mesh] OR foreign[Text Word])) AND Germany[MeSH]

  1. *Google Scholar and manual research has been used with the snowball system to identify publications from abstracts and to identify studies from bibliography in articles