Refugees, asylum-seekers and undocumented migrants and the experience of parenthood: a synthesis of the qualitative literature

Table 1 Refugees, asylum-seekers and undocumented migrants and parenthood experiences: MEDLINE Search strategy

1. exp. Parents/
2. Parenting/ or Child Rearing/
3. (mother* or father* or child rearing or child birth or childbirth*).ti,ab,kw.
4. 1 or 2 or 3
5. exp. Human Migration/
6. “Emigrants and Immigrants”/
7. Refugees/
8. “Transients and Migrants”/
9. (immigra* or emigra* or refugee* or asylum or foreigner*).ti,ab,kw.
10. 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9
11. 4 and 10
12. limit 11 to (english or french)
13. limit 12 to humans
14. limit 13 to yr. = “2006 -Current”
15. limit 14 to (case reports or classical article or clinical trial, all or comment or comparative study or controlled clinical trial or editorial or evaluation studies or government publications or introductory journal article or journal article or letter or meta analysis or multicenter study or observational study or published erratum or randomized controlled trial or “review” or “scientific integrity review” or systematic reviews or validation studies)

The asterisk (*) is a wildcard symbol and represents any group of characters, including no character. The wildcard expands the search to include variations (spelling, various endings) of the search term

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