Literature Searching: Theories of Mental Illness Min-Lin Fang, MLIS Education and Information Consultant for Nursing and Social and Behavioral Sciences

2 Objectives At the end of lecture, you will be able to Find an article quickly Develop search strategies and conduct efficient PubMed searches Select appropriate databases Identify MeSH(s) and use MeSH(s) to run PubMed searches Use subheadings, major concepts and limit options to refine searches Save searches and set up an automatic updates Conduct simple searches in CINAHL, PsycINFO, SocAbstracts

3 Online Tutorials PubMed Search Guide (NLM) Literature Searching Guide for Nursing Students pdfhttp:// pdf (Fang) CSA PsycINFO, SocAbstracts online tutorials CINAHL, Basic and Advanced

4 Special URL: UC-eLinks Links to UCSF full text journals Check whether UCSF owns a journal Check all UC libraries collection using Melvyl Request articles not owned by UCSF from other UC campuses Copy and Paste citations Online Help: UC-eLinks QuickGuideUC-eLinks QuickGuide

5 Quick Way to Find an Article in PubMed - 1 Enter the PMID number. Reed PG. Reed PG. The dialogue within nursing theory-guided practice: a frontier of knowledge and development. Nurs Sci Q Oct;19(4): PMID: [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

6 Quick Way to Find an Article in PubMed - 2

7 Databases UptoDate (PubMed online tutorial by NLM)PubMed online tutorial CINAHL (Basics, Advanced Search tutorial)Basics, Advanced PsycINFO (Quick Guide), PsycARTICLES, Sage (CSA) SocAbstracts, Social Services (CSA) Science Citation Index (Find who has cited these articles, when you retrieved few citations from other databases.) NOTE: Nursing Subject Guide: Subject Guide:

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9 Developing Search Strategies Formulate a question. Break your question into multiple concepts. Locate the appropriate MeSH (index term) for each concept. Run the search using AND, OR, NOT Apply limit options (date, language, age, publication type, gender), major headings and subheadings Modify your search strategies and rerun your search.

10 Boolean Operators (upper case) AND Combine different concepts to narrow your search. aged AND women  aged women OR Broaden your search to include similar concepts. HIV OR AIDS  AIDS patients NOT Exclude a concept AIDS NOT hearing aids  AIDS patients

11 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…

12 When to use Keyword search? New studies not yet indexed e.g. PubMed – in process PubMed – as supplied by publisher Do a keyword search and limit search results for the past few months. search sample: management of schizophrenia

13 Locating MeSH Do a keyword search. Click on “Details” to see the assigned MeSH. OR Do a title word search e.g. nursing theory [ti] Display citations in Citation format to locate MeSH OR Search the MeSH database 1. Scope Note 2. Subheadings 3. Major Topics 4. Explode

14 MyNCBI (Save Search, Updates) Create a free MyNCBI account Save search strategies Set user preferences – highlight search words in your retrieval.

15 CINAHL Produced by Cinahl Information Systems Covers nursing and allied health disciplines CINAHL covers almost all nursing journals; MEDLINE covers nursing journals with focus on research. 70% overlap with MEDLINE Includes book, book chapters, dissertations, conference proceedings, AV materials, software (MEDLINE includes journal articles only.) Index terms: Use MeSH terms and Nursing-specific headings.

16 PsycINFO Produced by the American Psychological Association (APA) Produced by the American Psychological Association (APA) Available through the CSA Illumina interface at the University of California, along with PsycARTICLES and Psychology: Sage Full-Text. Available through the CSA Illumina interface at the University of California, along with PsycARTICLES and Psychology: Sage Full-Text.

17 Coverage Includes over 1,800 professional journals, chapters, books, reports, theses and dissertations, published internationally. Includes over 1,800 professional journals, chapters, books, reports, theses and dissertations, published internationally. Also includes more than 8 million cited references in 185,000 journal articles, books, and book chapters. Also includes more than 8 million cited references in 185,000 journal articles, books, and book chapters. Covers citations from 1806 to the present, with approximately 60,000 new records added yearly. Covers citations from 1806 to the present, with approximately 60,000 new records added yearly. Updates weekly Updates weekly

18 Subject Coverage Major areas of coverage include: Applied psychology Communication systems Developmental psychology Educational psychology Experimental human and animal psychology Personality Psychological and physical disorders Physiological psychology and neuroscience Professional personnel and issues Psychometrics and statistics Social psychology Social processes and issues Sports psychology and leisure Treatment and prevention

19 PsycARTICLES Full-text access to articles from journals published by the APA, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. Most of the 58 APA journals included in PsycARTICLES now go back to volume 1, issue 1. Journal articles covering from 1986-present. Full-text coverage of book chapters from present Journals in this database also indexed in PsycINFO with access to citations and abstracts only.

20 Subject Coverage Major areas of coverage include: Applied psychology Communication systems Developmental psychology Educational psychology Experimental human and animal psychology Personality Psychological and physical disorders Physiological psychology and neuroscience Professional personnel and issues Psychometrics and statistics Social psychology Social processes and issues Sports psychology and leisure Treatment and prevention

21 PsycARTICLES Full-text access to articles from journals published by the APA, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. Most of the 58 APA journals included in PsycARTICLES now go back to volume 1, issue 1. Journal articles covering from 1986-present. Full-text coverage of book chapters from present Journals in this database also indexed in PsycINFO with access to citations and abstracts only.

22 Psychology: a Sage Full-text Collection Includes the full text of 35 journals published by SAGE and participating societies. Subject Coverage: Applied Psychology, Assessment, Child Development, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Cultural Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Environmental Psychology, Family Studies, Group Work, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Language Acquisition, Latin American Studies, Learning Disabilities, Measurement, Neuropsychology, Personality, Philosophical Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychology of Diversity, School Psychology, Social Psychology, and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. Each bibliographic record in the Collection links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.

23 Social Science Databases Multiple databases can be searched at once via the CSA Illumina interface. Multiple databases can be searched at once via the CSA Illumina interface. While PsycInfo, PsycArticles and Psychology: Sage Full-Text are the primary databases for psychological literature, relevant citations may also be found via Sociological Abstracts, Communication Abstracts, and ERIC. While PsycInfo, PsycArticles and Psychology: Sage Full-Text are the primary databases for psychological literature, relevant citations may also be found via Sociological Abstracts, Communication Abstracts, and ERIC.

24 Search Exercises 1.risk factors of postpartum depression 2.treatment and prevention and control of dementia 3. poststroke depression: prevalence, diagnosis, treatment, and disease progression 4.diagnosis, genetics, treatment, prevention of anorexia nervosa

25 Managing Citations APA Style APA Formatting and Style Guide (Purdue Univ.) APA Formatting and Style Guide APA Style Tips (APA) APA Style Tips Publication manual of the American Psychological Association 5 th ed. (Reference book, Library, MB, SFGH) BF76.7.A RefWorks a FREE web-Based citation management tool Check the class schedule and reserve a space for the RefWorks class.class schedulereserve a space EndNote vs RefWorks

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