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Table 3: Journals that were hand searched<br />

British Journal of Midwifery British Journal of Nursing<br />

British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology British Medical Journal<br />

International Journal of Nursing Studies JAMA<br />

Journal of Advanced Nursing Lancet<br />

Midwives Midwifery<br />

Nursing Times Social Science and Medicine<br />

The reason why the journals shown in Table 3 were hand searched was<br />

because they publish research articles related to the subject of the review. It was<br />

felt that hand searching might identify references missed in the electronic<br />

searches, or those not yet included in the electronic databases. Further studies<br />

were discovered by exploding references from already identified individual<br />

studies.<br />

Third stage<br />

The third stage concentrated on reviewing papers that were retrieved using<br />

the search terms, and selecting those that would be included in the review. To<br />

assist in handling and organising the review data, three databases were created<br />

using reference manager 8.5. One was the main database, called systematic<br />

review, where all retrievals were initially stored. From this database, duplicate<br />

references were transferred to a database called duplicate and irrelevant ones to<br />

the third database called irrelevant. Studies were assessed based on their<br />

relevance to the review question, and the method of conducting and reporting the<br />

study using the appraisal criteria shown in Box 1 below.<br />

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