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Tricks
in database searching for concept analysis terms.
The goal of the literature review in a concept analysis is to obtain literature that provide definitions of a specific term. Throughout this explanation the example concept analysis term is: Love.
We are looking for articles which, more or less, explicitly includes a sentence or paragraph with something along the lines of:
Our concept of love includes….
The conception of love is…
We conceive love to be….
To define love as…
The conclusion provides that love should be defined as…
The definition of love could be….
This understanding of love is…
She understands love to be….
They understood love to include…
So here we are looking for articles that contain very specific ideas that can be expressed in sentence format. Fortunately computers can do this, if the article or chapter is on the web or in a database somewhere.
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Most search engines are capable of searching fulltext if fulltext is available and certainly are capable of searching abstracts when these are available. One could enter a single word, the concept term, but this tends to lead to an overwhelming number of retrievals. Most search engines will accept an additional second term connected logically with an AND. Without more sophisticated modification this results in a default search with arbitrary retrievals.
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However, databases can be powerful and useful programs and are able to retrieve very specific material, if you know how to manipulate them.
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Helen Hough, Health Sciences
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