Gray literature in systematic reviews on population health in the Middle East and North Africa: protocol of an overview of systematic reviews and evidence mapping

Systematic Reviews
Karima ChaabnaJavaid I Sheikh

Abstract

Systematic review (SR) guidelines recommend extending literature search to gray literature in order to identify all available data related to the review topic. We aim to conduct an overview of SRs on population health in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), to assess the methodology of these SRs, to produce an evidence map highlighting methodological gaps in SRs regarding gray literature searching, and to aid in developing future SRs by listing gray literature sources related to population health in MENA. We will conduct an overview of SRs based on the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. This overview will be reported following PRISMA 2009 guidelines. Using comprehensive search criteria, we will search the PubMed database to identify relevant SRs published since 2008. Our primary outcomes are gray literature sources and study-level quality in the gray literature. We will include MENA countries with Arabic, English, French, and/or Urdu as primary official languages and/or media of instruction in universities. Two reviewers will independently conduct a multilevel screening on Rayyan software. Extraction of relevant data will be done on Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software. The met...Continue Reading

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Citations

Jul 25, 2018·World Journal of Gastroenterology : WJG·Karima ChaabnaRavinder Mamtani
Aug 6, 2020·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Sathyanarayanan DoraiswamySohaila Cheema
Sep 29, 2020·International Journal of Infectious Diseases : IJID : Official Publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases·Karima ChaabnaSohaila Cheema
Feb 13, 2021·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Sonia ChaabaneSohaila Cheema
Jul 30, 2021·Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons·Prabudh Goel

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Software Mentioned

AMSTAR
Rayyan
Statistical Package for the Social Sciences ( SPSS )
PRISMA
R
Endnote
Assessment of Multiple Systematic Reviews ( AMSTAR )

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