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Table 1 Search strategy and selection criteria

From: Beyond translations, perspectives for researchers to consider to enhance comprehension during consent processes for health research in sub-saharan Africa: a scoping review

Level

Components of search

Level 1

Search engines: PubMed, EMBASE, EBSCOHOST, Google Scholar

Key words: ‘informed consent’ or ‘comprehension’ or ‘health research’, or “language” or translation’ or ‘sub-Saharan Africa’

Key words + name of the country

Level 2

Manual search of studies identified in Level 1