Health Assessment 2: Search Strategy

This Health Assessment 2 assignment focuses on the development and implementation of a search strategy within the PsycInfo database. Students are required to detail their chosen database, its strengths and weaknesses, and explain their search methodology including keywords, Boolean operators, and limits used. The assignment also requires reporting on the number of references found and selected for further analysis.

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ASSESSMENT 1
Bibliography
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ASSESSMENT 2
Search Strategy
Evaluation and Search Strategy Template
Name of your one
Database you used to
look for items for your
Bibliography
PsycInfo is a database that provides extensive set of literature on psychology produced by
APA (American Psychological Association). It is the world’s largest database that delivers
global peer-review literatures about mental health and behavioural science.
Give reasons why you chose
the database - including a
description of its content,
and what you think are its
strengths and weaknesses
The key reason of selecting such database is it particularly provides extensive literature on
mental health, behavioural and social science researches. Considering my branch, it is perfect
database that provides global scholarly researches in these areas. It helps in extracting wide
range of studies including books, academician’s articles and literatures on depression and
alcoholic problems in male.
Strengths:
 Ever-expanding collection of social science, behavioural researches including business,
nursing, education, neuroscience and others
 Provide comprehensive and broad collection of psychological studies. Its coverage is
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beyond any other database index
 APA experts select the content thus, it is useful to extract the best quality studies
 It permits complicated and complex researches and currently it contains 1.5 million
journal articles, books, dissertation, chapters and others with 1400 indexed journals
related to psychology
Weakness:
 It is available on the APA only.
 Subscriber can get full access or article text under the defined limit of 35 journals.
 Although PsycInfo is updated monthly however, it will not be useful because index
records at the database have a usual time lag of 4 months to 1 year from the time they
are published.
How did you search it? Did
you use text-word searching
or subject heading search?
Both?
Text-word searching has been used to extract required articles on men with depression and
alcoholic problems. Such research strategy helps in finding exact literatures in which scholars
had used the key words and topics for the chosen issue.
What search terms did you
use? In this, “depression” and “alcoholic problems” have been used as key words to search articles.
It provides full details about all the literatures performed by the scholars in this area.
Did you use Boolean
operators – if so, how? Did Yes, Boolean operators have been used to find articles. IN this, two Boolean operators “And”
& “Or” has been used. As articles have been searched by entering “Depression and
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you select subject headings?
If so, which ones? Alcoholic” to search texts covering both the key words. Moreover, “Depression or Alcoholic”
is entered to find articles on either depression or alcoholic substances abuse.
Which ‘Limits’ did you use? Publication year has been used as limit or exclusion criteria so as to extract literature since
2010 year. Moreover, we have only selected such studies which have been performed on
male, thus, researches on female only has been excluded. In addition, only the studies which
are in English Language had been chosen.
Number of references found In total, the database found 43 articles on the chosen topic.
Number of references
selected Out of 43 articles, total 25 has been selected.
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