presentation to www.polygeia.com

1. Anatomy of a literature search
Isla Kuhn
Deputy Medical Librarian
University of Cambridge Medical Library
Polygeia - April 2014

2. How can stigma of mental illness in developing
countries be impacted by education?

4. Structure your Strategy – take it back to the bone…
• Turn your question into a search strategy
• PICOC
• Population/ Patient/ Problem
• Intervention
• Comparison
• Outcome
• Context

5. • SPIDER
Sample - Phenomenon of Interest – Design – Evaluation
- Research type
• SPICE
Setting - Perspective - Intervention - Comparison – Evaluation
• PICOT
Patient/Problem/Population – Intervention – Comparison - Outcome
– Time
• PICO
Patient/Problem/Population – Intervention – Comparison - Outcome

6. How can stigma of mental illness in developing
countries be impacted by education?
• P – mental illness
• I – education
• C – n/a
• O – stigma
• C - developing countries

8. How can stigma of mental illness in developing
countries be impacted by education?
• P – mental illness
• I – education
• C – n/a
• O – stigma
• C - developing countries
Put some meat on the bones……

9. How can stigma of mental illness in developing
countries be impacted by education?
• mental illness / mental health / depression
• education / information / teaching
• stigma / prejudice / awareness / understanding
• developing countries/ low and middle income countries /
lmic / least developed countries/ third world countries/ third
world nations / under developed countries

11. Connect it all up properly
• AND
• OR
• NOT

12. Connect it all up properly

13. How can stigma of mental illness in developing
countries be impacted by education?
• developing countries/ low and middle income countries /
lmic / least developed countries/ third world countries/ third
world nations / under developed countries
• mental illness / mental health / depression
• education / information / teaching
• stigma / prejudice / awareness / understanding

14. How can stigma of mental illness in developing
countries be impacted by education?
• low and middle income countries OR lmic OR developing
countries OR least developed countries
AND
• mental illness OR mental health OR depression
AND
• education OR information OR teaching
AND
• stigma OR prejudice OR awareness OR understanding

15. #1 low and middle income countries
#2 lmic
#3 developing countries
#4 least developed countries
#5 #1 OR #2 OR #3 OR #4
#6 mental illness
#7 mental health
#8 depression
#9 #6 OR #7 OR #8
#10 information
#11 education
#12 teaching
#13 #10 OR #11 OR #12
#14 stigma
#15 prejudice
#16 awareness
#17 understanding
#18 #14 or #15 or #16 or #17
#19 ?????

18. Different database, different results
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19. http://library.medschl.cam.ac.uk/
resources-training-support/databases/
• Medline
http://tinyurl.com/campubmed
• Embase
http://tinyurl.com/embase
• PsycINFO
http://tinyurl.com/campyscinfo
• Cochrane
http://www.thecochranelibrary.com
• Web of Science
http://wok.mimas.ac.uk
• Scopus
http://www.scopus.com
• LILACS
http://lilacs.bvsalud.org/en/
• ScIELO
Access via Web of Science
• Trials registers
http://www.who.int/ictrp/en/
• Grey Literature
Google
site:? filetype:?

21. Trim down a bit ….
(efficiency / effectiveness or specificity/sensitivity)
• Subject Headings
(MeSH)
• Filters
(to find the right methodologies)
• Years of publication
• Age of population
• Inclusion / Exclusion criteria
(you can’t/shouldn’t ready everything)

22. Help
Isla Kuhn
Deputy Medical Librarian
University of Cambridge Medical Library
• ilk21@cam.ac.uk
• @ilk21
• (01223) 336750
• http://library.medschl.cam.ac.uk