Social influence on Tobacco Use in Sexual and Gender Minority Populations Search Strategy

To identify studies to include or consider for this rapid review, the review team worked with a medical librarian (TN) to develop detailed search strategies for each database. The PRISMA-S extension was followed for search reporting. The medical librarian (TN) developed the search for PubMed (NLM) and translated the search for every database searched. The PubMed (NLM) search strategy was reviewed by the research team to check for accuracy and term relevancy, and all final searches were peer-reviewed by another medical librarian following the PRESS Peer Review of Electronic Search Strategies checklist. The Transgender search hedge used in this search was borrowed from the Library Resources for Transgender Topics libguide (1). The databases included in this search are PubMed (NLM), PsycInfo (EbscoHost), Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ProQuest), and Cochrane CENTRAL (Wiley) using a combination of keywords and subject headings. A grey literature search included the clinical trials registries (clinicaltrials.gov) and WHO ICTRP (https://trialsearch.who.int/), MedRxiv (https://medrxiv.org) and the TRIP Pro medical database (tripdatabase.com) websites. No limits were used in this search. All final searches were performed on June 29, 2022 by the librarian and were fully reported (TN). The full search strategies as reported by the librarian are provided in Appendix. A summary of the search results from databases: PubMed (NLM) from inception to 06/29/2022 (331 Results) PsycInfo (EbscoHost) from inception to 06/29/2022 (49 Results) Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ProQuest) from inception to 06/29/2022 (14 Results) Cochrane CENTRAL (Wiley) from inception to 06/29/2022 (50 Results) The search resulted in 625 studies and 66 duplicate studies were found and omitted by the librarian (TN) using the EndNote 20 duplicate identification strategy. This resulted in 399 records to screen from databases or registers and 160 records to screen from other methods, resulting in a total of 559 records. Studies were screened by title and abstract by two blinded and independent reviewers. If a tiebreaker was needed, a third reviewer was called in. This process was repeated for full text article screening and article selection.