Search Strategy for Parental Adverse Childhood Experiences Literature Review

A 16.7 KB DOCX file containing the full Boolean search strategy used to query three academic databases for literature on parental adverse childhood experiences. The strategy was exported on 23 April 2026 and authored by J.P.C. Staaks. It includes detailed search terms and operators for PsycInfo, Medline, and Web of Science Core Collection.

Use Cases

• Replicating a systematic literature search based on the provided Boolean logic and subject headings.
• Analyzing search term construction for research on adverse childhood experiences and parenting.
• Developing or refining search strategies for psychology and medical databases based on the documented methodology.

Strengths

• Explicitly documents the search date (23 April 2026) and database coverage (e.g., PsycInfo from 1806 to April 2026 Week 2).
• Provides the complete Boolean search string with field codes and proximity operators.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse and adaptation.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown; the file's internal structure must be inspected after download.
• The dataset is very small (16.7 KB), containing only the search strategy text without the resulting bibliographic data.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author J.P.C. Staaks.

Collection Method

Documented search strategy for academic databases.

Time Range

Search exported 23 April 2026; PsycInfo coverage from 1806 to April 2026.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-01 09:18:55.

Geography

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