Appendix 1: search strategy

Database: Ovid MEDLINE(R) <1996 to February Week 1 2017> 1 Chronic Disease/ (134311) 2 Long-Term Care/ (12954) 3 ((longterm or long term or long-term) adj (disease* or condition* or ill* or health)).tw. (6767) 4 ((chronic* or persist* or ongoing) adj (disease* or condition* or ill* or health)).tw. (60950) 5 asthma/ (66413) 6 arthritis/ (10431) 7 Musculoskeletal Diseases/ (9023) 8 Diabetes Mellitus/ (53504) 9 exp Self Care/ (36455) 10 (self adj (care or help or manag* or led or directed or monitor*)).tw. (27429) 11 Self Efficacy/ (15486) 12 Patient Participation/ (16968) 13 Self-Help Groups/ (5338) 14 health communication/ (1218) 15 reminder systems/ (2712) 16 social networking/ (1699) 17 Patient-Centered Care/ (13919) 18 patient care planning/ (18113) 19 Patient Education as Topic/ (57405) 20 models, educational/ (8673) 21 models, psychological/ (30372) 22 exp consumer health information/ (5829) 23 access to information/ (5269) 24 information dissemination/ (12444) 25 health education/ (28591) 26 health promotion/ (51619) 27 Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice/ (81954) 28 patient medication knowledge/ (103) 29 ((social or psychosocial or practical or group*) adj3 (information or advice or help or support or network)).tw. (47851) 30 ((education* or information* or communicat* or material* or resource*) adj5 (book* or leaflet* or pack* or video* or tape* or phone* or telephone* or manual* or advice* or audiovisual or audio visual or internet or social media or online or app*)).tw. (86648) 31 ((education* or information*) adj3 (program* or intervention* or material* or resource* or provision or provid* or session* or consultation* or class or classes or discussion* or meeting*)).tw. (183675) 32 (shared manag* or shared-manag*).tw. (56) 33 ((personal or individual) adj development).tw. (959) 34 Schools/ (19001) 35 (school* and (primary or elementary or junior or infant)).tw. (25246) 36 child/ (788305) 37 infant/ (346346) 38 parents/ (35621) 39 siblings/ (7812) 40 ("school age child*" or "school-age child*" or "4-11 year* old*").mp. (4171) 41 or/1-8 [LTC] (326604) 42 or/9-33 [SM] (586177) 43 or/34-40 [CYPF] (969999) 44 41 and 42 and 43 [LTC SM CYPF] (4858) 45 limit 44 to (english language and humans and yr="2010-Current") (1767) 46 remove duplicates from 45 (1673)