Comentarios de Factors that contribute to salutogenesis: Systematic review protocol

Screening process

Selection of studies (See figure 1) 

Stage 1: The titles and abstracts will be checked independently by two reviewers according to the above inclusion and exclusion criteria and categorized as:included, excluded or undefined. For the articles selected as undefined, the content will be re-evaluated by both reviewers, and if there are discrepancies, a third reviewer will check and categorize the article. Studies that do not fulfill with the inclusion criteria will be excluded. Articles selected as included will be thoroughly reviewed, and subsequently, will be either printed or filed in order to be available for all reviewers at any time. Studies from manual search will be also retrieve and classified asincluded, excluded or undefined by both reviewers. There will be two specific forms for the information obtained from both included and excluded articles (appendix 1).

Stage 2: It will take place after the stage 1 has been completed. Both reviewers who performed the article selection based on titles and abstracts will read the full text of all studies that were included at the stage 1, and those that do not fulfill the eligibility criteria will excluded. Full text of hand search studies will be review according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. The third reviewer will evaluate the full texts that have been categorized differently by the two reviewers (included or excluded).

Figure 1: Flow diagram of study screening process

This flow chart will be given to each reviewer to assure transparency during the review.