Table 4 Details of Search Strategy

Initial search strategy:

'Participatory research' OR 'Participative research' OR 'Action research' OR 'Collaborative inquiry' OR 'Participatory rural appraisal' OR 'Participatory appraisal' OR 'Emancipatory research' OR 'Social reconnaissance' OR 'Empowerment evaluation' OR ((participatory[title] AND (research[title]

OR

design[title])) OR

'participatory research'[title] OR 'action research'[title] OR

(('Consumer participation'[mesh] OR 'Consumer

advocacy'[mesh] OR 'Community-institutional

relations'[mesh]) AND (research[title] OR

research[mesh])) OR

'dialectical research' OR 'conscientizing research' OR 'participatory learning research' OR CBPR OR

'community-based participatory research' OR 'community based participatory research' OR 'community based action research' OR

'participatory evaluation' OR

'participative evaluation' OR 'community-driven research' OR

'community-driven action research' OR 'action science' OR

'community-partnered action research' OR 'cooperative inquiry' OR

'dialectical inquiry' OR 'appreciative inquiry' OR 'decolonizing methodologies' OR 'democratic evaluation'OR 'recherche participative' OR 'recherche action' OR 'recherche collaborative' Final focused strategy:

'Participatory research' or 'Participative research' or 'Action research' or 'Collaborative inquiry' or 'Participatory rural' or 'Participatory appraisal' or 'Emancipatory research' or 'Social reconnaissance' or 'Empowerment evaluation' or cbpr or 'community-based participatory research'

Focused strategy used:

• Ovid Medline (international biomedical journal literature)

• EMBASE (international biomedical literature)

• PsycInfo (international biomedical literature) [which included numerous citations from Proquest Dissertations]

• ISI Web of Knowledge (journal literature of all disciplines; citation searching) Additional sources used in initial searching only; results not included in screening:

• PubMed

• CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature; international)

• Cochrane Library (databases of systematic reviews and of clinical trials)

• ERIC (journal articles, reports, and other types of publications in education)

• Social Work Abstracts (international social work literature)

• Scopus (journal literature of all scientific disciplines; citation searching)

• Proquest Dissertations and Theses

• Additional sources for report/'grey' literature: Internet via Google and Google Scholar; New York Academy of Medicine Grey Literature Report and other sources listed in GreyNet