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New books

Health Sciences Literature Review Made Easy by Judith Garrard
ISBN: 9781284211177
Publication Date: 2020-12-23
Health Sciences Literature Review Made Easy, Sixth Edition is the ultimate 'how to' guide for learning the practical and useful methods for reviewing scientific literature in the health sciences. This text is an outstanding resource for students who need a practical, step-by-step set of instructions for how to organize, conduct, and write a synthesis of literature on a topic of their choice. The hallmark of this text is the inclusion of the Matrix Method developed by the author which outlines one of the many ways to approach a literature review. This method is a practical, easy-to-use structure and process for reviewing research literature, particularly in the health sciences and nursing. Updates on PRISMANew content on predatory publishing"How-to" format, step-by-step instructions and practical examplesTemplates and interactive web resourcesNavigate Companion Website, including learning objectives and additionalresources on the use of data visualization in health literature reviews
Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD by Zoë J. Ayres
ISBN: 3031141938
Publication Date: 2022-09-15
This book explores the PhD experience as never before and provides a "survival guide" for current and prospective PhD students. The book investigates why mental health issues are so common among the postgraduate population, going beyond the statistics, looking at lived experience of both the author and as well as current PhD students, who have found balancing mental wellness with the PhD endeavour challenging. The author discusses tips and tricks she wished she had known at the start of her PhD process for managing mental health, such as managing imposter feelings, prioritising workload, and self-care strategies to help others throughout their own journey. The book goes beyond typical mental health discussions (where the focus for improving mental health is placed on PhD students to become "more resilient") and explores some of the often unspoken environmental factors that can impact mental health. These include the PhD student-supervisor relationship, the pressure to publish, and deep systemic problems in academia, such as racism, bullying and harassment. Finally, the book is a call to action, providing tangible improvements from the author's perspective that university institutions can make to ensure that academia is a place for all to thrive.
Visualizing Health and Healthcare Data by Lindsay Betzendahl; Cambria Brown; Katherine Rowell
ISBN: 9781119680888
Publication Date: 2020-11-10
The only data visualization book written by and for health and healthcare professionals. In health and healthcare, data and information are coming at organizations faster than they can consume and interpret it. Health providers, payers, public health departments, researchers, and health information technology groups know the ability to analyze and communicate this vast array of data in a clear and compelling manner is paramount to success. However, they simply cannot find experienced people with the necessary qualifications. The quickest (and often the only) route to meeting this challenge is to hire smart people and train them. Visualizing Health and Healthcare Data: Creating Clear and Compelling Visualizations to "See how You're Doing" is a one-of-a-kind book for health and healthcare professionals to learn the best practices of data visualization specific to their field. It provides a high-level summary of health and healthcare data, an overview of relevant visual intelligence research, strategies and techniques to gather requirements, and how to build strong teams with the expertise required to create dashboards and reports that people love to use. Clear and detailed explanations of data visualization best practices will help you understand the how and the why. Learn how to build beautiful and useful data products that deliver powerful insights for the end user Follow along with examples of data visualization best practices, including table and graph design for health and healthcare data Learn the difference between dashboards, reports, multidimensional exploratory displays and infographics (and why it matters) Avoid common mistakes in data visualization by learning why they do not work and better ways to display the data Written by a top leader in the field of health and healthcare data visualization, this book is an excellent resource for top management in healthcare, as well as entry-level to experienced data analysts in any health-related organization.

Using the SJSU King Library

1) Log in on our library website with your SJSU ID number and SJSUOne password to access our databases from anywhere off-campus. Are you having trouble accessing your library account? Contact:

Jeff Frank
Senior Customer Services Coordinator for Access
Email: jeff.frank@sjsu.edu
Phone: (408) 808-2326

2) Use Interlibrary Loan (ILL) to request access to something we don't have in our library, like a book or journal article. You will need to set up an account the first time you use ILL. Note: Be sure to set your status correctly. SJSU Distance indicates students members who are exclusively engaged in online classes. DNP students and faculty should select:

SJSU Distance Graduate Students
SJSU Distance Faculty

Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad): Placing a Request

3) Our Online Students' Guide has more tips and tricks for our SJSU distance faculty and students.

Easier off-campus access with the proxy bookmarklet!

Most online journal articles require subscriptions to get access. If SJSU Library subscribes to the journal in question, this tool will help you access the article off-site without first looking it up on the library website.

Drag this button up to your bookmarks toolbar in your browser (or right-click to save it to your favorites toolbar).

Now, when you're on a website that you'd like to redirect through the Library's proxy server, clicking this button will automatically reload the page.

If the full-text still won't open, we might not subscribe to this item. Look it up on OneSearch or submit an Interlibrary Loans request to get access.

Starting your research project

Coming up with a topic

SJSU ScholarWorks - CSU Doctor of Nursing Practice
SJSU ScholarWorks is a digital repository of digital works produced by SJSU faculty, staff and students. Check out past DNP projects for inspiration.

Brainstorming search terms

Finding journal articles

Looking for journal articles on a topic?

Start with one of these library databases.

PubMed This link opens in a new window
Citations and abstracts from biomedical journals published in the U.S. and 70 other countries, dating back to the mid-1960's.
CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
1300+ full-text journals available to support nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This resource also provides access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, evidence-based care sheet and quick lesson disease overviews, and continuing education modules.
cinhal

You can also try any of the following:

Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window
Download the user guide. The Cochrane Library is a unique source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care. Published on a quarterly basis, the Cochrane Library is designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA) contains citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines, dating from the 1800s. PsycINFO is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
psy psych psycho psychinfo psych info psyc
Scopus This link opens in a new window
This abstract and citation database covers thousands of scholarly journals, books, and conference proceedings. Covering a broad range of disciplines, Scopus enables one to track, analyze, and visualize research. Output data at the institutional and author levels are available. Authors will find h-index, Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP), and citation counts helpful in demonstrating the impact of their work.
Trip Medical Database (free version) This link opens in a new window
A clinical search engine linking to evidence-based content, such as clinical practice guidelines, systematic reviews, and primary studies. Each abstract indicates the record's place on the evidence pyramid. Use the PICO search feature to show a limited number of highly-focused results.

Do you need more help searching our databases? Try one of these tutorials first. If you still need help, contact your librarian!

CINAHL Databases - Advanced Searching Tutorial (3:53)
Searching the Cochrane Library (2:50)
Customizing Google Scholar
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Learn how to link Google Scholar with SJSU GetText and RefWorks. This will tell you whether an article found on Google Scholar is available through the library's databases.
Lecture Series: Using PubMed to Find High-Quality Literature

Finding research instruments

The SJSU Library has several resources that can be used to identify assessments and other instruments to support research and patient-care.

PsycTESTS This link opens in a new window
A collection of psychological measures, scales, surveys, and other instruments essential to the research needs of professionals, students, and educators across the behavioral and social sciences. PsycTESTS indexes a wide variety of test types and instruments— including aptitude tests, personality scales, and cognitive functioning measures.
psy psych psycho psychinfo psych info psyc
HaPI - Health and Psychosocial Instruments This link opens in a new window
A bibliographic database covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences and information about behavioral measurement instruments. Over 2/3 of the tools are in medical and nursing areas such pain measurement, quality of life assessment, and drug efficacy evaluation.Limited to 1 simultaneous user
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new window
This database provides users with a comprehensive guide to 3,000+ contemporary testing instruments. Critical reviews and descriptive information for English-language commercially available standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas (as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbook). Limited to 4 simultaneous users

Caution: you may need to contact the author or publisher of a tool to 1) have access to the complete instrument and 2) get permission to reuse it.

Finding health statistics and open datasets

State & local

CA Health & Human Services Open Data Portal
The CHHS Open Data Portal provides access to non-confidential health and human services data from 14 departments and offices under the CHHS Agency.

National

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Contains current data from surveys such as the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), birth and mortality detail files, National Immunization Survey, Longitudinal Study of Aging, and National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)
Health.Data.gov
Datasets, tools, and applications gathered from agencies across the Federal government
AHRQ Data Tools
The AHRQ Data Tools allow you to explore AHRQ data sources in-depth, including the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. Create and download charts and datasets to support your research.

International

Global Health Observatory (GHO)
The World Health Organization's (WHO) gateway to health-related statistics for more than 1000 indicators for its 194 member states.

Additional resources

More sources can be found on the following SJSU research guides:

Community Health Data
by Adriana Poo Last Updated Feb 6, 2023 998 views this year
Finding Data and Statistics
by Anne Marie Engelsen Last Updated Nov 17, 2022 117 views this year

Using Zotero to organize your citations

Use a citation management software like Zotero to organize your body of knowledge, share citations within a research group, and format your citations in a given style.

Citation Managers - Zotero (SJSU Library guide)

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