Literature Searching: Theories of Mental Illness

Min-Lin Fang, MLISEducation and Information Consultant for Nursing and Social and Behavioral Sciences

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ObjectivesAt 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

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Online Tutorials PubMed Search Guide

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html (NLM)

Literature Searching Guide for Nursing Students

http://www.library.ucsf.edu/edtech/class/handouts/litsearch.pdf (Fang)

CSA PsycINFO, SocAbstracts online tutorialshttp://www-md3.csa.com/tutorials/advsearch.html

CINAHL, Basic and Advanced

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PubMed @UCSFSpecial URL: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/db/pubmed/

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 QuickGuide

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Quick Way to Find an Article in PubMed - 1

Enter the PMID number.Reed PG. The dialogue within nursing theory-guided practice: a frontier of knowledge and development.

Nurs Sci Q. 2006 Oct;19(4):328-9.

PMID: 17034071 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Quick Way to Find an Article in PubMed - 2

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Databases UptoDate PubMed@UCSF (PubMed online tutorial by NLM) CINAHL (Basics, Advanced Search tutorial) 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: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collres/reflinks/nursing/

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Database Access on GALEN

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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.

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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 conceptAIDS NOT hearing aids AIDS patients

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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…

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When to use Keyword search?

New studies not yet indexede.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

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Locating MeSH Do a keyword search. Click on “Details” to see the

assigned MeSH.

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Do a title word search e.g. nursing theory [ti]Display citations in Citation format to locate MeSH

OR

Search the MeSH database1. Scope Note2. Subheadings3. Major Topics4. Explode

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MyNCBI (Save Search, Updates)

Create a free MyNCBI account

Save search strategies

Set user preferences – highlight search words in your retrieval.

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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.

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PsycINFO Produced by the American Psychological Produced by the American Psychological

Association (APA)Association (APA)

Available through the CSA Illumina Available through the CSA Illumina interface at the University of California, interface at the University of California, along with PsycARTICLES and along with PsycARTICLES and Psychology: Sage Full-TextPsychology: Sage Full-Text..

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Coverage Includes over 1,800 professional Includes over 1,800 professional

journals, chapters, books, reports, theses journals, chapters, books, reports, theses and dissertations, published and dissertations, published internationally. internationally.

Also includes more than 8 million cited Also includes more than 8 million cited references in 185,000 journal articles, references in 185,000 journal articles, books, and book chapters.books, and book chapters.

Covers citations from 1806 to the Covers citations from 1806 to the present, with approximately 60,000 new present, with approximately 60,000 new records added yearly. records added yearly.

Updates weeklyUpdates weekly

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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

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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 2000-

present Journals in this database also indexed in

PsycINFO with access to citations and abstracts only.

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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

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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 2000-

present Journals in this database also indexed in

PsycINFO with access to citations and abstracts only.

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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.

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Social Science Databases

Multiple databases can be searched at Multiple databases can be searched at once via the CSA Illumina interface. once via the CSA Illumina interface.

While PsycInfo, PsycArticles and While PsycInfo, PsycArticles and Psychology: Sage Full-Text are the Psychology: Sage Full-Text are the primary databases for psychological primary databases for psychological literature, relevant citations may also be literature, relevant citations may also be found via Sociological Abstracts, found via Sociological Abstracts, Communication Abstracts, and ERIC.Communication Abstracts, and ERIC.

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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

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Managing CitationsAPA Style APA Formatting and Style Guide (Purdue Univ.) APA Style Tips (APA) Publication manual of the American

Psychological Association 5th ed. (Reference book, Library, MB, SFGH) BF76.7 .A46 2001

RefWorks a FREE web-Based citation management tool Check the class schedule and reserve a space for

the RefWorks class. EndNote vs RefWorks

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Personal Consultation:Contact Min-Lin Fang for personal consultation.

Email: fang@library.ucsf.eduPhone: 415-476-3397