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Table 1 Search strategy-PsychINFO search

From: Parent–adolescent communication on adolescent sexual and reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa: a qualitative review and thematic synthesis

# SEARCH SYNTAX in PsycINFO

Parent Terms

 S1: (MH "Parents") OR (MH "Single Parent")

 S2. AB parent* OR AB guardian

 S3. 1 or 2

Adolescent terms

 S4. (MH "Adolescent")

 S5. AB adolescen* OR AB teenag* OR AB youth OR AB juvenile OR AB minor OR AB schoolgirl OR AB schoolboy

 S6. 4 or 5

Sexual and Reproductive Health Terms

 S7. (MH "Sexual Health") OR (MH "Reproductive Health") OR (MH "Adolescent Health") OR (MH "Sexuality") OR (MH "Sexual Behavior") OR (MH "Unsafe Sex") OR (MH "Heterosexuality") OR (MH "Sexual Abstinence") OR (MH "Safe Sex") OR (MH "Sex Work") OR (MH "Puberty") OR (MH "Child Abuse, Sexual")

 S8. AB "sexual health" OR AB sex* OR AB sexuality OR AB "reproductive health"

 S9. 7 or 8

 S10. (MH "Sexual Behavior") OR (MH "Unsafe Sex") OR (MH "Sexuality") OR (MH "Sexual Abstinence") OR (MH "Safe Sex") OR (MH "Sex Work") OR (MH "Adolescent Behavior") OR (MH "Child Behavior") OR (MH "Reproductive Behavior") OR (MH "Risk Reduction Behavior") OR (MH "Risk-Taking")

 S11. AB "sex* behavi?r" OR AB "risk* behavi?r" OR AB "sexual debut"

 S12. 10 or 11

 S13. (MH "Sex Education") OR (MH "Sex Counseling")

 S14. AB "sex* education" OR AB "sex* health" OR AB "reproductive health" OR AB condom* OR AB contraceptive* OR AB "family planning"

 S15. 13 or 14

Sub-Saharan Africa

 S16 Africa or Angola or Benin or Botswana or Burkina Faso or Burundi or Cameroun or Cape Verde or Central African Republic or Chad or Comoros or Congo Brazaville or Congo Democratic Republic or Cote d'Ivoire or Djibouti or Equitorial Guinea or Eritrea or Ethiopia or Gabon or The Gambia or Ghana or Guinea Bissau or Kenya or Lesotho or Liberia or Madagascar or Malawi or Mali or Mauritania or Mauritius or Mozambique or Namibia or Niger or Nigeria or Reunion or Rwanda or Sao Tome and Principe or Senegal or Seychelles or Sierra Leone or Somalia or South Africa or Sudan or Swaziland or Tanzania or Togo or Uganda or Western Sahara or Zambia or Zimbabwe

 S17 africa/ or "africa south of sahara"/ or central africa/ or east africa/ or sahel/ or southern africa/ or west africa/ or tropical africa/

 S18. 3 and 6 and 9 and 12 and 15 and 17