2. Method
Our literature search had two components:
Part A was undertaken as part of a scoping review of the health of children deprived of
liberty in the administration of justice (hereafter referred to as ‘justice-related detention’).
Part B was a rapid review of the health of children deprived of liberty
1) for migration-related reasons,
2) for protection or educational reasons (hereafter referred to as ‘institutional care’),
3) for notionally therapeutic reasons,
4) in the context of armed conflict or on national security grounds, or
5) living in prison with a parent.
All reviews were global in scope, considered publications in any language, and included
articles published from 1980 onwards.
2.1 Part A: Scoping Review – Justice-related Detention
This scoping review was conducted in accordance with Preferred Reporting Items for
Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR)
guidelines.31 The protocol for this review was registered in 2016 with the PROSPERO
International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (#CRD42016041392).
a. Search Strategy and Information Sources
We conducted a systematic search to identify literature on the health of children in justicerelated detention. We searched 11 electronic databases: Embase, PsycINFO, ERIC, PubMed,
Web of Science, CINCH, Global Health, The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, the
Campbell Library, the National Criminal Justice Reference System Abstract Database,and
Google Scholar – using variants and combinations of search terms relating to both justicerelated detention and physical, mental, sexual, oral, infectious, and neurocognitive health
conditions (See Appendix). All databases were searched from 1980 until February 2017
and this was updated by a rapid review in June 2018. We scrutinised the reference lists of
31 Andrea C. Tricco, Erin Lillie, Wasifa Zarin, Kelly K. O’Brien, Heather Colquhoun, Danielle Levac, David Moher, Micah D. J. Peters, Tanya
Horsley, Laura Weeks, Susanne Hempel, Elie A. Akl, Christine Chang, Jessie McGowan, Lesley Stewart, Lisa Hartling, Adrian Aldcroft,
Michael G. Wilson, Chantelle Garritty, Simon Lewin, Christina M. Godfrey, Marilyn T. Macdonald, Etienne V. Langlois, Karla SoaresWeiser, Jo Moriarty, Tammy Clifford, ÖzgeTunçalp & Sharon E. Straus, ‘PRISMA extension for scoping reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist
and explanation’, Annals of Internal Medicine, Vol. 169(7), 2018, pp. 467-473.
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