Literature Review Searching Databases for 6 Article Worksheet

This worksheet provides step-by-step guidance on how to search databases for literature review. It includes instructions on using filters and limiters to find relevant articles for your research question. The worksheet also provides examples of referencing details for 6 studies.

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Using Evidence in Health Promotion and Public Health
Research Methods and Critical Appraisal
Literature review searching databases for 6 article worksheet
Part 1 – Go to the Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Professionals database
(CINAHL Complete)
1. Go to the UWL library and click on A-Z databases
2. Choose databases at the top and pick: CINAHL complete (Use just CINAHL complete
if you don’t find enough studies you can also ‘choose databases’ at the top in CINAHL
and tick Academic Search Elite and Medline).
Part 2 – Run your search using the keywords you have developed
You should be aiming for a list of 50-100 results which you can then go through by title and
abstract to find your 1 key article. It is important to learn to read titles and abstract and spot
which are interventions and relevant to you question and which are not.
3. Type in all your keywords from the question development worksheet and run
search.
population-keyword-1:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6487295/?
tool=pmcentrez&report=abstract
population-keyword-2:
https://www.journalijar.com/
intervention-keyword-1:
https://doaj.org/article/8799dea2f2f549b6a472f4eb06ee2864
intervention-keyword-2:
http://www.tobaccopreventioncessation.com/A-combined-
community-health-worker-and-text-messaging-based-intervention-
for-smoking,132469,0,2.html
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intervention-keyword-3:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8490174/
intervention-keyword-1:
https://www.scielo.br/j/jbpneu/
outcome-keyword-1:
https://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h1551
outcome-keyword-2
https://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g1151
4. Write the number of results you get for your first search
2,176,750 results
You CANNOT use Full Text Only so do NOT use it!
Part 3 – Add some new intervention search keywords
1. Add another search box and in that box type in the following to increase the number
of interventions you get.
Type this in a new search box
(intervention OR program OR programme OR evaluation OR campaign)
Smoking campaign
What are the number of search results now?
220,817 results
[Normally you first search without adding these in, however when we have little knowledge
about what interventions and actions can be undertaken by public health professionals it
helps to use the above keywords as well as the PICO framework developed keywords to get
more relevant studies (articles]
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Part 4 – Use filters and limiters
2. Now refine the search by changing the publication date to 2008 to 2018/19
(the last 10 years as old studies would not be as useful as recent studies)
What are the number of search results now?
119,385 results
_________________________________________
3. Now refine the search by academic journals only
What are the number of search results now?
33602 results
_________________________________________
4. Change the Language filter/limiter to English
What are the number of search results now?
119,229 results
_________________________________________
Part 5 – Change ‘All Fields’ to ‘Title’ only
5. Change the main intervention keyword search box to ‘Title Only’ to narrow your
search down even more if you need to.
What are the number of search results now?
980 results
_________________________________________
6. Change the health outcome keyword search boxes to ‘Title Only’ to narrow your
search down even more if you need to.
What are the number of search results now?
____ 85 results_____________________________________
Part 6 – Use one more filters and limiters
7. Change the Age Group filter/limiter to your chosen age group to narrow your search
down even more if you need to.
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What are the number of search results now?
_______15698 results__________________________________
STILL have more than 70-100 articles then add this in a new search box alongside your
other keywords then go to the next page.
Adding the keywords below in a new search box focuses on specific types of studies that
are often used when research how effective new interventions and actions are in public
health.
Part 7 – Add key types of study designs used in intervention research
8. Add the following in a new search box
(RCT OR “randomised controlled trial” OR “randomized controlled trial” OR
“controlled trial” OR experimental OR cohort)
What are the number of search results now?
__ 198,657 results_______________________________________
Part 8 – Read the title and abstract and choose 1 article (up to 6 if you can) and download or
order them
1. Go through the 50-100 articles in your final search results and find 1 article (up to 6 if
you can) that that you think are interventions and relevant to your literature review
question.
2. Click the folder and make it yellow and then email the 1 article (up to 6 if you can) to
yourself.
3. Download the 1 to 6 articles and where they are not available use the inter-library
loan option at the bottom of the UWL library page to order the articles.
4. Upload the articles to the shared OneDrive folder that has been shared with you
through your student email account to be discussed in the next two teaching
sessions.
5. Then discuss the articles with your group lecturer to choose 1 relevant article in the
next teaching session.
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6. If you have not picked any relevant ones your group lecturer will help you to
understand why you have chosen wrongly and help you to find 1 correct article
(study) in the next teaching session.
Part 9 – Referencing details of 6 studies (articles)
Authors
(Last Name and Initials)
Augustson, E., Bright M.A., Babb, S., Malarcher, A., Rodes,
R., Beistle, D., McAfee, T. and Mowery, P.
Year published (2012)
Title of article ‘Increases in quitline calls and smoking cessation website
visitors during a national tobacco education campaign —
march 19–june 10, 2012’,
Journal CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,
Volume 61
Issue Number (34),
Page Numbers pp. 667-670.
Authors
(Last Name and Initials)
Dennis R. Trinidad, Eliseo J. Perez-stable
Year published (2011)
Title of article A Nationwide Analysis of US Racial/Ethnic Disparities in
Smoking Behaviors, Smoking Cessation, and Cessation-
Related Factors
Journal Public health
Volume -
Issue Number 21330593
Page Numbers
-
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Authors
(Last Name and Initials)
Gemma Taylor, Ann
Year published (2014)
Title of article Change in mental health after smoking cessation:
systematic review and meta-analysis
Journal BMJ health clinical
Volume
60
Issue Number
348
Page Numbers
pp.1151
Authors
(Last Name and Initials)
Ute Mons, Aysel Muezzinler, Carolin Gellert
Year published (2015)
Title of article Impact of smoking and smoking cessation on
cardiovascular events and mortality among older adults:
meta-analysis of individual participant data from
prospective cohort studies of the CHANCES consortium
Journal BMJ health clinical
Volume 50
Issue Number 350
Page Numbers pp.758
Authors
(Last Name and Initials)
Nasser F BinDhim, Kevin McGeechan and Lyndal Trevena
Year published
(2018)
Title of article
Smartphone Smoking Cessation Application (SSC App)
trial: a multicountry double-blind automated randomised
controlled trial of a smoking cessation decision-aid ‘app’
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Journal Medicine national institute of health
Volume 8(1)
Issue Number
29358418
Page Numbers pp. 513
Authors
(Last Name and Initials)
Lucy Popova and Pamela M.Ling
Year published (2003)
Title of article
Alternative Tobacco Product Use and Smoking Cessation:
A National Study
Journal PubMed
Volume
20(2)
Issue Number
23488521
Page Numbers pp.923-930
Authors
(Last Name and Initials)
David Tappin, Linda Bauld, and David Purves
Year published
(2015)
Title of article
Financial incentives for smoking cessation in pregnancy:
randomised controlled trial
Journal The BMJ council of medicine
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Volume
2
Issue Number 4112
Page Numbers pp. 320-350
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