PPT 5

Question 1

5 steps to creating a search plan

Answer 1

1- identify your research question
2- Identify the main ideas in your question
3- Brainstorm similar and related terms
4- Combine your terms using search operators AND & OR
5- Select an appropriate database and proceed confidently

Question 2

How to identify your research question

Answer 2

PICOS

Question 3

PICOS stands for

Answer 3

population 
intervention 
comparison 
outcome 
study design

Question 4

5 ways to get synonyms and related terms

Answer 4

1- alternate spelling
2- alternate endings 
3- synonyms 
4- antonyms 
5- acronyms

Question 5

what does OR do

Answer 5

combines your synonyms and related terms

Question 6

what does AND do

Answer 6

combines your concepts

Question 7

what does ( brackets ) do

Answer 7

group your synonyms for one concept

Question 8

What does “ “ do

Answer 8

phrase searching pulls up your search terms in the exact order it appears in the quotation marks

Question 9

What does * do

Answer 9

allows you to look for all the variations of the root of a word

Question 10

what does pubmed provide

Answer 10

provides citations with abstracts to worldwide biomedical literature

Question 11

What does pubmed cover ex: research etc.

Answer 11

research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues and healthcare.

Question 12

What is psycinfo

Answer 12

database contains more than 2 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s.