Table 14

Cumulative effect of including additional databases on the number of publications retrieved from a sample of 289 housing/neighbourhoods and mental health references that could be classified using STOX from their titles and abstracts

Cumulative % of papers found with evidence type S, T or O (n=190)Cumulative % of papers found with evidence type S, T, O or X (n=289)
Medical databases
Embase 6.8 6.2
Medline 26.8 24.6
CINAHL 28.4 25.6
HealthSTAR (non-Medline) 32.1 28.4
Specialist databases
PsycINFO 55.8 50.2
Social science databases
ISI Social Science Citation Index 71.1 68.9
Science databases
ISI Science Citation Index 71.1 69.2
Built environment databases
ICONDA 84.7 86.5
APID 86.8 90.7
Urbadisc/Accompline 93.7 95.2
Grey literature databases
SIGLE100.0100.0