OTBS 10600: Introduction to Occupational Therapy

Defining Your Research Question

  • Determine and define the clinical problem
·       Frame this in a question format as it will help you determine the key concepts: population, intervention and outcome.
  • Generate a list of keywords using PICO
·       Patient or Population (what is the disorder or disease)
·       Intervention
·       Comparison (if any)
·       Outcome (what you are hoping to assess)

Best Bets

CINAHL
Index, with abstracts, to journal articles and ERIC documents from the Educational Resource Information Center; with links to full-text, from 1966 to present.
PsycINFO
Indexes and abstracts journal articles and book chapters in the field of psychology, 1887 to present.
MEDLINE (EBSCO)  
This is a great tool for finding primary biomedical journal articles with links to some full-text. 
 

Finding and Evaluating Websites

Websites
Google Advanced Search: A sophisticated way to search Google by limiting to a specific domain: .com, edu, gov


Evaluating Websites: Johns Hopkins Guide to Evaluating Internet Information
  • Authorship
  • Publishing body
  • Point of view or bias
  • Referral to other sources
  • Verifiability
  • Currency
  • How to distinguish propaganda, misinformation and disinformation
  • The mechanics of determining authorship, publishing body, and currency on the Internet

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Library Exercise

Use this exercise as a template to help you with your literature review assignment.
Library Exercise pdf