I have 2 children with ADHD that I have been a "mother advocate" for as well as a patient advocate. I chose to search ADHD and risk for substance use because of social discussion related to substance use disorders and increased/decreased risk debate. I chose to use PubMed to search because of the access to multiple discipline journal archives.On my first generic search, there were several thousand articles. I was able to specify my search with MeSH headings (great tutorial video!)using AND, and OR to identify specifics and further created limits (research, human,recent 5 yrs), both of which took less than 10 minutes to do. Barriers for daily practice would be lack of familiarity with the database, knowledge on how to narrow searches and use the search tabs efficiently, and the overwhelming number of articles in general search terms if the user did not have a specific topic in mind.
I thought I was fairly proficient at information retrieval, but the tips presented in this lesson were very helpful. Thank you!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment