Description:

This Master Prompt would focus on designing a systematic, transparent and reproducible strategy for identifying literature relevant to an integrative review. It would guide researchers in selecting databases and supplementary information sources, developing concepts and search terms, constructing Boolean search strings, determining publication periods and language restrictions, conducting supplementary searching or citation tracking where justified, documenting search dates and managing retrieved records.

A major emphasis would be placed on balancing comprehensiveness with relevance. Researchers would justify database selection and search boundaries rather than simply report them, document modifications to the search strategy, and maintain sufficient information for the evidence-identification process to be reproduced or critically evaluated. The reviewed papers demonstrate considerable variation in database combinations and search periods, while systematic searching remains a central feature of rigorous integrative reviews.