The search strategy was developed initially in MEDLINE (Ovid) by an information specialist (NA) and peer-reviewed by a second librarian using the PRESS (Peer Review of Electronic Search Strategies) checklist.23 The final search strategy was translated and run in EMBASE (Ovid), Cochrane CENTRAL (Ovid), PsycInfo (Ovid), CINAHL (EBSCO), Scopus (Elsevier), Web of Science Core (Clarivate), and PEDro (web) (Supplementary Data ). We searched for ongoing studies by reviewing trial registries (e.g., ClinicalTrials.gov). The most recent search was performed on January 10, 2023.
We performed a hand search of the reference lists of eligible citations and conference proceedings (2016 to January 2023) of Digestive Diseases Week, Canadian Digestive Diseases Week, World Physiotherapy Congress, and Canadian Physiotherapy Association Congress. Lastly, we screened the first 10 pages of results in Google Scholar using the search string exercise|“physical activity” ibd|“inflammatory bowel”|crohns|colitis. All citations obtained from the literature search were exported to Endnote (version 20, Clarivate) for reference management and deduplication. Relevant citations were imported into Rayyan24 (link) for study selection.
We performed a hand search of the reference lists of eligible citations and conference proceedings (2016 to January 2023) of Digestive Diseases Week, Canadian Digestive Diseases Week, World Physiotherapy Congress, and Canadian Physiotherapy Association Congress. Lastly, we screened the first 10 pages of results in Google Scholar using the search string exercise|“physical activity” ibd|“inflammatory bowel”|crohns|colitis. All citations obtained from the literature search were exported to Endnote (version 20, Clarivate) for reference management and deduplication. Relevant citations were imported into Rayyan24 (link) for study selection.