A systematic review of the effectiveness of mental health promotion interventions for young people in low and middle income countries

Table 1 Original search strategy for electronic databases (+ denotes terms used for updated search in Sept 2012)

Mental health terms	Origin	Population	Setting	Intervention terms	Related outcomes
Mental health +	Middle income country+	Infant	Home	Promotion+	Gender
Psychosocial+	Low income country+	Child+	Pre-school+	Prevention+	Child health
Wellbeing+	Developing world+	Adolescent+	School+	Intervention+	Stigma+
Lifeskills+	Developing country+	Young people+	Classroom+	Program+	Discrimination
Empowerment+		outh+	Community+	Policy+	Primary care
Mental capital+		Adult	Out-of-school+	Implementation +	Maternal health
Resilience+		Worker	Health service	Evaluation+	Violence+
Social emotional+		Employee	Workplace	Home visiting	Sexual health +
Mental health literacy+		Family		Early years	HIV prevention+
		Indigenous community		Parenting	Social capital
		Population group		Organizational	Social networks
					Social functioning
					Microfinance+
					Micro-credit+

Searches included: (* denotes multiple word endings including singular and plural).
Mental health terms AND Origin AND Population AND Intervention Terms.
e.g. mental health OR psychosocial OR wellbeing OR lifeskills OR empowerment OR mental capital OR resilience OR social emotional OR mental health literacy
AND
middle income countr* OR low income countr* OR developing world OR developing countr*
AND
child* OR adolescent* OR young people OR youth
AND
Promotion OR prevention OR intervention OR program* OR policy OR implementation OR evaluat*.
Mental health terms AND Origin AND Population AND Setting.
Mental health terms AND Origin AND Population AND Related Outcomes.
Mental health terms AND Origin AND Setting AND Related Outcomes.
Mental health terms AND Origin AND Related outcomes AND Intervention Terms.
Mental health terms AND Origin AND Related outcomes AND Setting.
Mental health terms AND Origin AND Related outcomes AND Population.

ISSN: 1471-2458