Table 1

Search term strategies using keywords and Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) terms

Sexual abuse	Sexual abuse (cont)	Physical abuse	Emotional abuse	Emotional neglect	Additional child maltreatment definitions
Child* sexual abuse	Child abuse survivor	Child hitting	Child worthless	Denial clothing	Child neglect
Child sexual assault	Child sexual offender	Child shaking	Child unloved	Denial shelter	Child psychological assault
Child sexual coercion	Child pornography	Child throwing	Child inadequate	Denial food	Child denial
Child rape	Child molestation	Child poisoning	Child failure	Carer failure	Child pasting
Child prostitution	Child sexual crime	Child burning	Child unloved	Parental failure	Child emotional assault
Child crime victims	Child physical	Child scalding	Child corruption	Emotional harm	Non-accidental injury
Child incest	Child assault	Child drowning	Child unheard	Emotional danger
Child perpetrator/child victim 3	Child beating	Child suffocating	Cruelty	Child* neglect
Child physical violence	Child emo* abuse			Abandonment
Child mental violence	Child maltreat*			Bereavement
Child sexual violence	Child sexual coercion			Grief
Child sexual offence	Child sexual aggression

Search terms: (“child abuse, sexual”[MeSH Terms] OR (“child”[All Fields] AND “abuse”[All Fields] AND “sexual”[All Fields]) OR “sexual child abuse”[All Fields] OR “physical child abuse” [All Fields] OR “emotional child abuse”[All Fields] OR (“child”[All Fields] AND “sexual”[All Fields] AND “abuse”[All Fields]) OR “child sexual abuse”[All Fields]) AND (“india”[MeSH Terms] OR “india”[All Fields])—expanded from Choudhry et al22 and Day et al66 and updated to include child maltreatment definitions.
*Alternative search terms to include adolescent sexual abuse, adolescent physical assault and so on.