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Summary Credible Sources, Searching and Evaluating Info

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The following document evaluates and discusses how to effectively find credible sources, search through articles to find the ideal one and how to evaluate information for your assignment/ dissertation

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To complete a thorough literature search you should:
1. Define what your searching for
2. Decide where to search
3. Develop a search strategy
4. Refine your search strategy
5. Save your search for future use

Framework to develop search:
Qualitative:
Population
Intervention
Comparison
Outcome

Sample
Phenomenon of interest
Design
Evaluation
Research type

Quantitative:
SPICE
Setting
Perspective
Intervention/interest of phenomenon
Comparison
Evaluation

Refining your search terms:
Boolean operatirs
AND, OR, and NOT

Why use these?
To focus search
To connect pieces of info to find exactly what you are looking for

Truncation: broadens your search including various symbols
*

What type of data base:
 Cinahl
 British Nursing Database nursing
 Nursing & Allied Health nursing
 Medline or PubMed medical
 Psychology Database mental health
 Family Health Database Proquest
 Public Health Database Proquest
 Health Management Proquest

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