1

Case‐Control Studies/

2

Control Groups/

3

Matched‐Pair Analysis/

4

Retrospective Studies/

5

((case* adj5 control*) or (case adj3 comparison*) or control group*).ti,ab.

6

or/1‐5

7

Cohort Studies/

8

Longitudinal Studies/

9

Follow‐Up Studies/

10

Prospective Studies/

11

Retrospective Studies/

12

cohort.ti,ab.

13

longitudinal.ti,ab.

14

prospective.ti,ab.

15

retrospective.ti,ab.

16

or/7‐15

17

randomized controlled trial.pt.

18

controlled clinical trial.pt.

19

randomized.ab.

20

placebo.ab.

21

Clinical Trials as Topic/

22

randomly.ab.

23

trial.ti.

24

(crossover or cross‐over).tw.

25

Pragmatic Clinical Trials as Topic/

26

pragmatic clinical trial.pt.

27

or/17‐26

28

exp Breast Neoplasms/

29

(breast adj6 cancer$).tw.

30

(breast adj6 neoplasm$).tw.

31

(breast adj6 carcinoma$).tw.

32

(breast adj6 tumo?r$).tw.

33

or/28‐32

34

breast cancer awareness.tw.

35

breast awareness.tw.

36

(breast adj5 aware*).tw.

37

awareness.tw.

38

Awareness/

39

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice/

40

exp Health Education/

41

exp Health Promotion/

42

education.tw.

43

knowledge.tw.

44

(promot* or educat* or knowledge or intervention* or inform* or aware*).tw.

45

(education* adj5 intervention*).tw.

46

Health Communication/

47

Patient Education as Topic/

48

or/34‐47

49

and/33,48

50

animals/ not (humans/ and animals/)

51

49 not 50

52

and/6,51

53

and/16,51

54

and/27,51

55

limit 54 to yr="2008 ‐Current"

#1

'case control study'/syn OR 'case control study' OR ('case control' OR 'case base' OR 'case matched' OR retrospective) NEXT/3 (analys* OR design* OR evaluation* OR research OR stud* OR survey* OR trial*)

#2

(cohort OR concurrent OR incidence OR longitudinal OR followup OR 'follow up' OR prospective OR retrospective) NEXT/1 (analys* OR design* OR evaluation* OR research OR stud* OR survey* OR trial*) OR 'prospective method'/exp OR 'retrospective study'/syn

#3

random* OR factorial* OR crossover* OR cross NEXT/1 over* OR placebo* OR (doubl* AND blind*) OR (singl* AND blind*) OR assign* OR allocat* OR volunteer* OR 'crossover procedure'/exp OR 'crossover procedure' OR 'double blind procedure'/exp OR 'double blind procedure' OR 'randomized controlled trial'/exp OR 'randomized controlled trial' OR 'single blind procedure'/exp OR 'single blind procedure'

#4

'breast'/exp OR 'breast disease'/exp AND 'neoplasm'/exp OR 'breast tumor'/exp OR (breast* NEAR/5 neoplas*):ab,ti OR (breast* NEAR/5 cancer*):ab,ti OR (breast* NEAR/5 carcin*):ab,ti OR (breast* NEAR/5 tumo*):ab,ti OR (breast* NEAR/5 metasta*):ab,ti OR (breast* NEAR/5 malig*):ab,ti

#5

'breast cancer'/exp OR 'breast cancer' OR 'breast neoplasm' OR 'breast carcinoma'/exp OR 'breast carcinoma' OR 'breast tumour' OR 'breast tumor'/exp OR 'breast tumor'

#6

#4 OR #5

#7

'breast cancer awareness'

#8

'breast awareness'

#9

breast NEAR/5 aware*

#10

aware*

#11

'health education'/exp OR 'health education' OR health NEAR/5 education

#12

'health promotion'/exp OR 'health promotion' OR health NEAR/5 promotion

#13

'awareness'/exp OR awareness

#14

'education'/exp OR education

#15

'knowledge'/exp OR knowledge

#16

(promot* OR inform* OR aware* OR educat* OR knowledge OR intervention*)

#17

educat* NEAR/5 intervention*

#18

#7 OR #8 OR #9 OR #10 OR #11 OR #12 OR #13 OR #14 OR #15 OR #16 OR #17

#19

#6 AND #18

#20

#19 AND [humans]/lim AND [embase]/lim

#21

#1 AND #20

#22

#2 AND #20

#23

#3 AND #20

#24

#23 AND [2008‐2014]/py

1

Randomized controlled trial/

2

Controlled clinical study/

3

Random$.ti,ab.

4

randomization/

5

intermethod comparison/

6

placebo.ti,ab.

7

(compare or compared or comparison).ti.

8

((evaluated or evaluate or evaluating or assessed or assess) and (compare or compared or comparing or comparison)).ab.

9

(open adj label).ti,ab.

10

((double or single or doubly or singly) adj (blind or blinded or blindly)).ti,ab.

11

double blind procedure/

12

parallel group$1.ti,ab.

13

(crossover or cross over).ti,ab.

14

((assign$ or match or matched or allocation) adj5 (alternate or group$1 or intervention$1 or patient$1 or subject$1 or participant$1)).ti,ab.

15

(assigned or allocated).ti,ab.

16

(controlled adj7 (study or design or trial)).ti,ab.

17

(volunteer or volunteers).ti,ab.

18

human experiment/

19

trial.ti.

20

or/1‐19

21

exp case control study/

22

case control study.ti,ab.

23

((case control or case base or case matched or retrospective) adj1 (analys* or design* or evaulation* or research or stud* or survey* or trial*)).ti,ab.

24

21 or 22 or 23

25

exp retrospective study/

26

exp prospective study/

27

((cohort or concurrent or incidence or longitudinal or followup or 'follow up' or prospective or retrospective) adj1 (analys* or design* or evaluation* or research or stud* or survey* or trial*)).ti,ab.

28

25 or 26 or 27

29

exp breast/

30

exp breast disease/

31

(29 or 30) and exp neoplasm/

32

exp breast tumor/

33

exp breast cancer/

34

exp breast carcinoma/

35

(breast$ adj5 (neoplas$ or cancer$ or carcin$ or tumo$ or metasta$ or malig$)).ti,ab.

36

29 or 30 or 31 or 32 or 33 or 34 or 35

37

breast cancer awareness.tw.

38

breast awareness.tw.

39

(breast adj5 aware$).tw.

40

aware$.tw.

41

exp health education/

42

(health adj5 education).tw.

43

exp health promotion/

44

(health adj5 promotion).tw.

45

exp awareness/ or awareness.tw.

46

exp education/ or education.tw.

47

exp knowledge/ or knowledge.tw.

48

(prmot$ or inform$ or aware$ or educat$ or knowledge or intervention$).tw.

49

(educat$ adj5 intervention$).tw.

50

or/37‐49

51

36 and 50

52

limit 51 to (human and embase and yr="2014 ‐Current")

53

20 and 52

54

24 and 52

55

28 and 52