DOI: 10.5683/sp3/gknywd
title: Search strategy for Trauma AND sexual and gender minority populations

description: The notes field contains the full MEDLINE (Ovid) search strategy for studies on trauma and sexual and gender minorities. The search file in this dataset contains the full MEDLINE (Ovid), EMBASE (Ovid), PsycInfo (Ovid) and CINAHL (EBSCO) strategies from May 26, 2025. The remaining files are the original database downloads for each search; access to these files are restricted due to licensing agreements.
description: Ovid MEDLINE(R) ALL &lt;1946 to May 22, 2025&gt;

1 (LGB* or GLBT* or LBG* or 2SLGBT* or bisex* or pansex* or dyke* or sapphic* or butch* or "gender* divers*" or gay? or homosex* or lesbian* or lesbigay* or ((sexual* or gender* or romantic) adj3 (minorit* or divers*)) or non-heterosexual* or nonheterosexual or queer* or genderqueer* or 2spirt* or 2-spirit* or two-spirit* or twin-spirit* or transsex* or trans sex* or transgender* or trans gender* or transm?n or transwom?n or (trans adj2 (men or man or women or woman or people or folk* or folx or person* or individual* or patient* or identit*)) or intersex* or asexual* or aromantic* or non-binary or nonbinary or non-cisgender* or genderfluid* or genderless or agender* or non-gender* or bigender* or bi gender* or same-sex or "gender non conforming").tw,kf. 87804
2 "men who have sex with men".tw,kf. 17283
3 "men who love men".tw,kf. 0
4 "men loving men".tw,kf. 0
5 "women who have sex with women".tw,kf. 224
6 "women who love women".tw,kf. 5
7 "women loving women".tw,kf. 9
8 (WSW or WLW).tw,kf. 256
9 (MSM or MLM).tw,kf. 16602
10 (trans adj4 patient*).tw,kf. 1916
11 (trans adj3 (health or healthcare or mental health or well being or wellbeing)).tw,kf. 581
12 (trans male* or trans female*).tw,kf. 89
13 (transfeminin* or trans feminin*).tw,kf. 413
14 (transmasculin* or trans masculin*).tw,kf. 570
15 (transfemme* or transmasc*).tw,kf. 478
16 ("cis/trans" or "cis trans" or "cisgender/transgender" or "cisgender transgender").tw,kf. 7049
17 (androgyny or androgynous or androgyne or androphilia* or gynephilia*).tw,kf. 613
18 (third gender* or fourth gender* or third sex* or trigender* or third spirit*).tw,kf. 152
19 ((gender variant or gender variet* or gender identit*) and (Native* or Indigenous or American Indian* or First Nation*)).tw,kf. 143
20 (gender variant or gender variet* or gender divers* or genderdivers*).tw,kf. 3665
21 (genderfluid* or genderflux or (gender adj3 (fluid* or flux* or fluctuat*))).tw,kf. 274
22 (transexual* or transsexual*).tw,kf. 2806
23 transvest*.tw,kf. 560
24 (crossgender* or cross gender*).tw,kf. 356
25 (assigned gender* or assigned male or assigned female or "assigned male at birth" or "assigned female at birth").tw,kf. 1280
26 (AMAB or AFAB).tw,kf. 280
27 (("male-to-female" or "female to male") and transgender*).tw,kf. 1245
28 (("male-to-female" or "female to male") adj3 spectrum*).tw,kf. 40
29 (gender* spectrum or trans* spectrum).tw,kf. 1763
30 (gender* adj3 (non binary or non conform* or nonconform* or conform* or confirm* or divers* or expansive or express*)).tw,kf. 9064
31 (gender* adj3 (dysphoria* or dysphoric)).tw,kf. 2504
32 (gender* adj3 (euphoria or euphoric)).tw,kf. 19
33 (gender question* or genderquestion*).tw,kf. 96
34 (gender bend* or genderbend*).tw,kf. 23
35 (mixed gender* or demi gender* or demigender*).tw,kf. 865
36 (demi boy* or demi girl* or demiboy* or demigirl*).tw,kf. 1
37 (gender identit* adj4 disorder*).tw,kf. 666
38 enby.mp. 0
39 (agender* or genderless*).tw,kf. 79
40 (pan gender* or pangender* or "multi gender*" or multigender*).tw,kf. 18
41 ((gender or female or male) adj4 affirm*).tw,kf. 4318
42 "Sexual and Gender Minorities"/ or Sexuality/ or Gender Identity/ or Bisexuality/ or Transsexualism/ or Transgender Persons/ or Gender-Nonconforming Persons/ or "Health Services for Transgender Persons"/ or Gender-Affirming Care/ or Intersex Persons/ or "Disorders of Sex Development"/ or homosexuality/ or homosexuality, female/ or homosexuality, male/ or Gender Dysphoria/ 88160
43 Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/ or PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA/ 47212
44 (PTSD or CPTSD or C-PTSD or complex post traumatic stress or post traumatic stress or posttraumatic stress or complex PTSD).tw,kf. 57794
45 (trauma focus* or complex trauma).tw,kf. 2751
46 or/1-42 159225
47 or/43-45 70374
48 46 and 47 862