Literature Searching: Theories Related to Nursing Care of the Adult Min-Lin Fang, MLIS Education and Information Consultant for Nursing and Social and Behavioral Sciences

Objectives At the end of lecture, you will be able to Find an article quickly Develop search strategies and conduct efficient PubMed searches Identify MeSH(s) and use them to run searches Save searches and set up an automatic updates Run a quick search on CINAHL and Web of Science 6/22/2015

June 22, 2015 Nursing Subject Guide in the CLE Key databases and Cross-database search EBM resources Nursing Theories Test & Measurement E-Reserves/Comp Exam Examples Citation Management (EndNote vs RefWorks) Online Tutorials Get Help

4 UC-eLinks Link to UCSF full-text subscription Check UCSF Catalog and for journal location Request articles not owned by UCSF

Quick Way to Find an Article 6/22/2015

6 Development of Search Strategies Formulate the question; Break your question into multiple concepts Locate the proper MeSH/thesaurus for each concept; Use AND to connect different concepts; Use OR to connect similar concepts Refine your search Too Many? Apply limit options (language, subset, age, publication type, major heading, subheading) Too Few? Explode

MyNCBI Create a free MyNCBI account Set user preferences – highlight search words in your retrieval. Set “Abstract” format on MyNCBI account to open the supplemental data (MeSH, PTs) 6/22/2015

June 22, PubMed Quick Tips When you get too many results, try these tips. Use Advanced Search. Use “quotation marks” to search on a phrase Use [tiab] to find a word/phrase in the title or the abstract Use [ti] to find a word/phrase in the title Use * to find alternative endings (child*=> child, children, childbearing) Use Limits options to narrow your search. Exercise: Malnutrition in nursing homes

June 22, 2015 Find the Most Recent Studies New studies not yet indexed e.g. PubMed – in process PubMed – as supplied by publisher Do a keyword search. Note: The default display setting: sorted by recently added.

Why Use MeSH (Indexed Term)? MeSH terms (indexed terms) are an efficient way to find articles on “concepts” where authors may use different words to discuss the same ideas. Using MeSH improves precision and accuracy of subject searching. Keyword search (title, MeSH, abstract) may not retrieve relevant articles. Example: physical therapy “Storytelling as therapy: implications for medicine.” Abstract: Storytelling is an art developed during the beginning of human history, probably to teach the wisdom of generations past, including basic mental and physical health principles… 6/22/2015

June 22, Finding Relevant MeSH Terms Use Medical Subject Headings to focus your search. Do a title word search TIPS: Malnutrition [ti] AND “nursing homes” [ti] Set “Abstract” format on MyNCBI account to open the supplemental data (MeSH, PTs) malnutrition[mh] AND nursing homes[mh] Exercise: Malnutrition in nursing home residents Pain management in adult palliative care English review articles on falls prevention among elderly

12 PubMed vs CINAHL Type of Publication Covered MEDLINE: articles only CINAHL: articles, books, book chapters, nursing dissertations, standards of practice, educational software, clinical innovations, research instruments, etc. Year Coverage MEDLINE: 1950-present CINAHL: 1982-present Subject Coverage: MEDLINE: Focuses on biomedical journal literature CINAHL: Focuses on nursing and allied health literature Updates MEDLINE: daily CINAHL: Weekly

13 PubMed vs CINAHL Overlap Controlled Vocabulary MEDLINE: Uses MeSH CINAHL: Based on MeSH & unique nursing and allied health terms called CINAHL Subject Headings Nursing theories: CINAHL Peer-Reviewed Articles MEDLINE: can’t easily identify peer-reviewed articles: CINAHL: can use peer-reviewed limiter or use journal subset: peer-reviewed to locate peer-reviewed articles Exercise Malnutrition in nursing home residents Pain management in adult palliative care English review articles on falls prevention among elderly

14 More Databases Web of Science (Multidisciplines) Search from multidisciplinary literature Cited references, times cited PsycINFO SocAbstracts Exercise: Mental health nursing and dementia care

June 22, 2015 Citation Management Create your personal database of references, importing them from databases Cite references while you write a paper Automatically format the paper and the bibliography RefWorks: Free Web-based service for UCSF students and personnel FAQ: