Table 1 Database Search Strategy in Medline, Embase and PsycInfo
From: The neuropsychiatric effects of vitamin C deficiency: a systematic review
Vitamin C deficiency | Neuropsychiatric effects | |
|---|---|---|
Title and Abstract Keywords (not indexed) | scurvy or ascorbic acid deficienc*or hypoascorb* or scorbutus or vitamin c deficienc* or avitaminosis c or ascorbic acid level or ascorbic acid concentration or vitamin c level or vitamin c concentration or hypovitaminosis c | mental illness or mental disorder* or anxi* or obsess* or compuls* or neurosis or neuroses or neurotic* or schizophren* or paranoi* or psychosis or psychoti* or cataton* or hysteric* or hysteria or bipolar or mania or manic or depress* or deliri* or neurobehavioural or neurobehavioral or neuropsychiatr* or behaviour* or behavior* or irritab* or dementia* or hypochondr* or hypochondria* |
Medline (MeSH heading) | “ascorbic acid deficiency”[mh] | Mental disorders [mh:noexp] or “anxiety disorders”[mh] or “Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other or Psychotic Disorders”[mh] orcatatonia [mh] or hysteria [mh] or “Bipolar and Related Disorders”[mh] or “Mood Disorders”[mh] or “Neurocognitive disorders”[mh] or “neurobehavioral manifestations”[mh:noexp] or “behavioral symptoms”[mh] or “irritable mood”[mh] or hypochondriasis [mh] |
Embase (Emtree heading) | ‘ascorbic acid deficiency’/exp | ‘mental disease’/de or ‘anxiety disorder’/exp. or ‘schizophrenia spectrum disorder’/exp. or ‘catatonia’/exp. or ‘hysteria’/exp. or ‘disorders of higher cerebral function’/exp. or ‘behavior disorder’/de or ‘behavior’/exp. or ‘irritability’/exp. |
PsycInfo headings | Exp Ascorbic Acid | Given the relatively small number of hits for ascorbic acid and the associated title and abstract terms, mental illness terms were not specifically searched |