Search Strategy Assignment
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Apr 3, 2024
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The Effect of Pets on Owners’ Mental Health
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My Search Strategy for The Effect of Pets on Owners’ Mental Health
STEP 1:
Choose one of the selected topics below for this assignment. Or, if you are currently taking another class, you could use a topic from it. If you would like to propose your own topic, discuss your idea with your professor. State which topic you’ve chosen. Topics:
The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on higher education
The effect of supply chain issues on global commerce
The effect of pets on owners’ mental health
The effect of telework on the real estate market
Type your answer here: The effect of pets on owners’ mental health
STEP 2: Fill in the table below as a starting point for your search. Please refer to the materials in Week 1, including the “Identifying an Information Need” learning resource and the example on “climate change” under the “Creating a Search Strategy” topic. Step
Your answers:
1. Write your topic.
The effects of pets on owners’ mental health
2. Use Google or Wikipedia to learn about your topic, narrow your focus, and come up with some key words. companionship, family, purpose, positive
feelings
3. Write your research question.
How can pets lower risk of mental health
issues?
4. Write a preliminary topic statement based on what you know. [You will use research to validate (or revise) this early assumption.]
Pet owners are 41% less likely to suffer from mental health issues. 5. List words or phrases from the topic statement or research question (key concepts) that best describe your topic.
Pets Mental health issues Risk 6. Consider dates, geographic locations, and/or other relevant limiting factors to narrow your search. 2018 to present
7. Now find relevant synonyms, or keywords, of Pets - dos, cats, hamsters
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the key concepts you listed is step 5.
Mental health issues – stress, anxiety, depression
Risk – danger, exposure
8. Write different forms of the words or phrases you listed (if any).
Pet, pets
STEP 3
: Create a Boolean Search Statement. Now that you have identified some key concepts and keywords, create a search statement on your topic using Boolean operators.
Type it here: Pets and risk of (“mental health” or anxiety or depression or stress) for (“pet owner” or adults)
STEP 4: Now, practice your ability to use advanced searching techniques and show what those search terms would look like. We recommend combining nesting, truncation, and phrase searching techniques in a single search statement. Create a search statement using advanced techniques. Be a Boolean ROCK STAR! Try it here: Pets and risk of (“mental health” or anxiety or depression or stress) for (“pet owner” or
adults)
STEP 5: Now start your search. Try your search statement with the Library’s OneSearch
tool. Provide a snip (or screenshot) of the results from your search. Share a “snip” or screenshot of a portion of your initial results here:
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STEP 6
: Now you will narrow your search. Try adding a date range and more keywords or search phrases to limit the number of articles your search identifies. Remember that when you get to the evaluation stage, you will appreciate a more focused group of resources. Provide a snip (or screenshot) that shows the results of your revised search.
Type your revised search statement here:
“mental health” of dog owners
Share a “snip” or screenshot of a portion of your more focused results here:
STEP 7: You may get additional and relevant information from websites. Do a Google search on
your topic using keywords and review this week’s learning resources on evaluating web sites and evaluating digital sources. Type the name of a website you visited that produced relevant information: Google.com
STEP 8: From the results of your searches, choose an article that you think is the best resource to get you started. Choose an article that addresses the key concepts of your research question,
provides useful information, and comes from a reliable source. Before you start using the material, capture the information that you need for a reference citation in APA 7 format. The complete citation will go on your References page of most papers. There is good information about how to cite resources properly at the Citing and Writing
page. There is additional information about citing in Week 3. Here are the elements you need for an article citation:
Author last name, first initial. (Year). Article title. Journal Title, volume
(issue), page numbers. DOI or URL Elements:
Author:
List the last name, followed by the first initial (and second initial).
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Year:
List the publication year between parentheses, followed by a period.
Article title:
Capitalize the first word of the title, subtitle, and proper nouns, followed by a period.
Journal title:
In italics. Capitalize all important words.
Volume and issue number:
Volume number in italics. Issue number in parentheses, no italics.
Page number(s):
List page numbers followed by a period.
DOI or URL:
Use DOI when available. If no DOI and from the free web, use a URL. Please provide the reference citation in APA 7 format
for your chosen article here:
Reference:
Scoresby, K. J., Strand, E. B., Ng, Z., Brown, K. C., Stilz, C. R., Strobel, K., Barroso, C. S., & Souza, M. (2021).
Pet ownership and quality of life: A systematic review of the literature
. Veterinary sciences. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8705563/
STEP 9: In your next assignment, you will analyze the qualities and usefulness of the article you chose. Please explain briefly why you chose this article over the rest of the articles you found. Type your answer here: There are a few reasons I choose to use the article “Pet ownership and quality of life: A systematic review of the literature.” First, this article used multiple other articles to gather its data. This allowed the article to contain multiple facts drawn from multiple different lenses. Secondly, the usage of percentages in the article help show the impact greater. Lastly, not only does this article speak on the positive impacts of pet ownership, but it also speaks on the negatives. I believe having information on both sides of the discussion allows for more understanding. Overall, I believe this article has great qualities to prove to be useful for my research.
You are finished! Please save this completed assignment and submit it to the Search Strategy
Assignment folder. Thank you!!