Searched: Sexual Trauma and PTSD treatment.
CINAHL is definately where my comfort zone is and find it easy to narrow searches and get full text articles (as well as it is easy to import into endnote). Pub med has great articles but they are not always accessable. I have never really stopped to think and use PICO technique before and plan to try to organize my information this way in the future.
P= problem
I= Intervention
C= Comparison
O= Outcome
I also searched NCH which I found to be a bit too broad topic wise and there were alot of articles that had absolutely nothing to do with the topic I was researching. Even after doing an advanced search it brought up alot of irrelavent information. Most of the information/articles were new which was great.
Google scholar search was interesting and brought me to more helpful overall information on the topic but as we know google is not always realiable. The biggest concern was the inability to access up to date information. I still felt that it was worthwhile to search google as it gave me an overall look at my topic. I would like a day where I could have someone who is very informed on searching the various indexes to show me all the different tricks.
Yes sitting with someone while they do a search is helpful to pick-up some tricks/strategies. I believe you will develop your own tricks with some experience and they will become so common place you won't realize you have developed some "tricks."
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