Identifying the Main Concepts/Keywords
Research Question Example
What is the impact of medicating children with mental disorders?
Identify the Keywords
What is the impact of medicating children with mental disorders?
- impact
- medicating
- children
- mental disorders
Brainstorming Related Terms
| impact | medicating | children | mental disorders |
|---|---|---|---|
|
effect consequence |
Prozac Fluoxetine |
adolescents youth |
Obsessive compulsive disorder OCD |
Formulating a Search
Boolean Operators:
Use AND, OR, NOT to combine, broaden, or exclude your results.
- AND: Combines keywords
- OR: Broadens a concept and will include synonyms
- NOT: Excludes concepts not relevant to your search
Phrase Searching:
Searches for words together in the order in which you've entered them.
-
“Obsessive compulsive disorder”
Truncation:
Useful when you have search terms that are "root" terms.
-
Obsess*
Search String Example
Search String Example
Effect AND Prozac AND youth AND “obsessive-compulsive disorder”
