Dentistry and oral health - Develop your search using a Concept Map

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Dentistry and Oral Health

Develop your search using a Concept Map

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• Firstly identify your keywords and place them into a concept map. Concepts are the themes of your topic. This will help you determine your search strategy.

For example, using the topic

Discuss the management of adolescents experiencing dental fear

Concept 1 Concept 2 Concept 3

Management Adolescents Dental fear



• Next you need to consider other terms or synonyms that may be used. If you are not sure of the terminology, use related text books or Google to gather a basic understanding of your topic.



Management Adolescents Dental fearORBehaviour management

ORTeenager

ORFear of dentists

ORAnxiety management

ORDental anxiety ORDental phobia



Quotation marks “ “ will allow you to search for phrases

Example: “behaviour management”



Management Adolescents “Dental fear”“Behaviour management” Teenager “Fear of dentists”

“Anxiety management” “Dental anxiety”

Dental phobia”



Truncation * will retrieve words starting with the word stem directly before *

Example: Manag* will retrieve results such as Manage,management and managing.



Manag* Adolesc* “Dental fear”“Behaviour management” Teenager* “Fear of dentists”

“Anxiety management” “Dental anxiet*”

”Dental phobia”



A question mark ? (referred to as a wildcard) will pickup up words that have variable spelling. For example behavio?r, this will pick up both behaviour and behavior.



Manag* Adolesc* “Dental fear”“Behavio?r management” Teenager* “Fear of dentists”


”Dental phobia”



• Your search



Manag* Adolesc* “Dental fear”“Behavio?r management” Teenager* “Fear of dentists”


”Dental phobia”

Thank you

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