Longshot - anyone use Medline or CINAHL databases?

Sorry - I tend to use World of Knowledge so probably can't help at all!

Got all excited then when you'd replied!

I take it you mean Web if Knowledge?

Just checked and I can access that

Please stay with me, you may able to really help me out....do you know which drop down option would be considered the best for a systematic review?

ie Topic or MeSH heading or major heading?

I've used KW for a PsycINFO search and then put in lots of OR...OR terms plus another set on the next line. So I'm not familiar with using the MeSH options, wondered if I can keep it consistent with the other search if that makes any sense.

off to have aplay to see if I can suss it...

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Gah, it doesn't like OR... on the same line.

Any ideas how I can do this search?

“adolescent grie*” or “adolescent bereave*” OR “adolescent loss”

AND

adjustment OR adaptation OR psychopathology

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I think if you do one search then the other, you can then go into search history and do search 1 and search 2

I just did the search on Medline using Ebsco and did the following:

adolescent AND (grie* OR bereav* OR loss) = results

these results AND ( adjustment OR adaptation OR psychopathology)

which gave me 1495 results.

Many thanks! 1500 is way too many which is the difficulty I'm having as I can't hand search those and if I try and narrow down using any of the fields you can select, the results I found originally aren't coming up.

I just remembered it was PubMed I'd used before and you do one line at a time then combine using #1 AND #2 etc

When I do this, I get much more manageable results, around 60 but oddly the original ones I'd found aren't there so goodness knows how I did that original search and can;' find my notes anywhere ?

thanks, will keep trying

I use medline and cinahl via Ovid and I don't think it is too complicated and does give you the keyword option - haven't used Ebscohost so can't shed anymore light on that

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I've resolved it now and almost through the final 152 results I'd got it down to! Via Ovid there isn't a field that is called 'Keyword' as such, just several other options which all give different results. I went back to PubMed as realised that's where I'd done my original search but oddly wasn't getting same results.

Thanks to Hazel ? and mentioning WOK, I managed to get it to 152 and these included my original 8 or so, soooo happy now!

The search wasn't working first as it didn't like the quotation marks pasted from Word but was okay when I typed them straight in - VERY strange and so chuffed iwth myself I worked it out!