Articles Screening and selection After the databases ...

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Total articles remaining for screening, N=2413. Articles selected based on title, N=32. Articles rejected, N=2381. Total databases search result, N=2501.
Articles Screening and selection After the databases search, the articles were screened as shown on the flowchart below (figure 1).

DATABASE SEARCH

Articles identified for Review

Web of Science, N=29

CINAHL, N=234

Science Direct, N=118

Total databases search result, N=2501

PubMed, N=2120

Duplicates deleted, N=88

Total articles remaining for screening, N=2413

Articles selected based on title, N=32

Articles from other sources N=15

Articles rejected, N=2381

Articles rejected N=7

Articles selected based on abstract N=25

Full text articles included for review, N=31

Full text articles rejected N=9

Figure 1: Flowchart of identification and screening of articles from database

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