Table 1 Complete search strategy for all databases

Pubmed

(“health workforce”[tiab] OR “health personnel”[tiab] OR “health care worker”[tiab] OR “health personnel”[tiab] OR “health manpower”[tiab] OR nursing[tiab] OR “health care providers”[tiab] OR “healthcare staff”[tiab] OR “health professionals”[tiab]) AND (retention[tiab] OR detention[tiab] OR reservation[tiab] OR detainment[tiab] OR durability[tiab] OR permanence[tiab] OR persistence[tiab] OR recruitment[tiab] OR “personnel turnovers”[tiab] OR “personnel turnover”[tiab] OR willingness[tiab]) AND (disaster[tiab] OR pandemic[tiab] OR epidemic[tiab] OR “biological event”[tiab] OR “nuclear disaster”[tiab] OR “biological disaster”[tiab] OR “natural disaster”[tiab])

Embase

(“Personnel Turnover”:ti.ab.kw OR “Personnel Turnovers”: ti.ab.kw OR “Employee Turnover”:ti.ab.kw OR “Employee Turnovers”:ti.ab.kw OR “willingness to work”:ti.ab.kw OR “willingness to response”:ti.ab.kw) AND (“health workforce”:ti.ab.kw OR “Health Occupations Manpower”:ti.ab.kw OR “Health Manpower”:ti.ab.kw OR “personnel”:ti.ab.kw OR “clinical staff”) AND (“disasters” OR “disaster planning” OR “emergency” OR “pandemic”:ti.ab.kw OR “epidemic”:ti.ab.kw OR “biological event”:ti.ab.kw OR “nuclear event”:ti.ab.kw)

Web of Science

(TS = (“Personnel Turnover”) OR TS = (“ Personnel Turnovers”) OR TS = (“Employee Turnover”) OR TS = (“Employee Turnovers”) OR TS = (“willingness to work”) OR TS = (“willingness to response”)) AND (TS = (“health workforce”) OR TS = (“Health Occupations Manpower”) OR TS = (“Health Manpower”) OR TS = (personnel) OR TS = (“clinical staff”)) AND (TS = (“disaster planning”) OR TS = (emergency) OR TS = (pandemic) OR TS = (epidemic) OR TS = (“biological event”) OR TS = (“nuclear event”))

Scopus

(TITLE-ABS-KEY(“Personnel Turnover”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(“Personnel Turnovers”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(“Employee Turnover”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(“Employee Turnovers”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(“willingness to work”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(“willingness to response”)) AND (TITLE-ABS-KEY(“health workforce”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(“Health Occupations Manpower”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(“Health Manpower”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(personnel) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(“clinical staff”)) AND (TITLE-ABS-KEY(“disaster planning”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(emergency) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(pandemic) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(epidemic) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(“biological event”) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY(“nuclear event”))