MEDLINE search strategy
| # | Searches |
| 1 | exp Alcohol-Related Disorders/ |
| 2 | exp Alcohol Drinking/ |
| 3 | (alcohol$ adj2 (drink$ or intoxicat$ or use$ or abus$ or misus$ or risk$ or consum$ or withdraw$ or detox$ or treat$ or therap$ or excess$ or reduc$ or cessation or intervention$)).tw. |
| 4 | (drink$ adj2 (excess or heavy or heavily or harm or harmful or hazard$ or binge or harmful or problem$)).tw. |
| 5 | (“alcohol use” or alcoholic$).tw. |
| 6 | or/1–5 |
| 7 | Depression/ |
| 8 | exp Depressive Disorder/ |
| 9 | Mood Disorders/ |
| 10 | dysthymi$.tw. |
| 11 | (depressi$ adj3 disorder$).tw. |
| 12 | (depressi$ adj3 symptom$).tw. |
| 13 | mood disorder$.tw. |
| 14 | affective disorder$.tw. |
| 15 | antidepress$.tw. |
| 16 | anti-depress$.tw. |
| 17 | or/7–16 |
| 18 | Internet/ |
| 19 | Blogging/ |
| 20 | Social Media/ |
| 21 | Computers/ |
| 22 | exp Microcomputers/ |
| 23 | Minicomputers/ |
| 24 | Therapy, Computer-Assisted/ |
| 25 | Computer-Assisted Instruction/ |
| 26 | exp Cellular Phone/ |
| 27 | Electronic Mail/ |
| 28 | ((email$ or e-mail$ or electronic mail$ or text messag$ or SMS or MMS or phone? or cellphone? or cell-phone? or smartphone? or smart-phone? or digital tablet? or pda or personal digital assistant? or social media or social networking or facebook or twitter or skyp$ or app?) adj3 (deliver$ or generat$ or based or provid$ or facilitat$ or support$ or treatment? or therap$ or intervention? or program$ or feedback)).ti,ab. |
| 29 | ((Internet$ or electronic$ or digital$ or technolog$ or online or on-line or computer$ or laptop? or software or web$ or weblog$ or blog$ or CD? or CD-ROM?) adj3 (deliver$ or generat$ or based or provid$ or facilitat$ or support$ or treatment? or therap$ or intervention? or program$ or feedback)).ti,ab. |
| 30 | (e-BI or e-SBI or ehealth or e-health or electronic health or mhealth or m-health or mobile health or virtual health or digital health or technological aid?).ti,ab. |
| 31 | or/18–30 |
| 32 | 6 and 17 and 31 |
| 33 | randomized controlled trial.pt. |
| 34 | controlled clinical trial.pt. |
| 35 | randomi*.ab. |
| 36 | placebo.ab. |
| 37 | drug therapy.fs. |
| 38 | randomly.ab. |
| 39 | trial.ab. |
| 40 | groups.ab. |
| 41 | 33 or 34 or 35 or 36 or 37 or 38 or 39 or 40 |
| 42 | (animals not (humans and animals)).sh. |
| 43 | 41 not 42 |
| 44 | 32 and 43 |