This document provides guidance on how to identify a research study. It states that a research study must ask a research question, identify a research population, describe a research method, test or measure something, and summarize results. It notes that research studies are published in peer-reviewed journals, and that articles that review other studies without presenting new research are not considered research studies. Examples of non-research study articles include literature reviews, meta-analyses, editorials, and letters relating to previously published research.

1. Searching for a Research Study

2. How to identify a research study
A research study must:
• Ask a research question
• Identify a research population or group
• Describe a research method
• Test or measure something
• Summarize the results
• Research studies are almost always published in peer-reviewed (scholarly)
journals.
• Articles that review other studies without presenting new research results
are not research studies. Examples of article types that are NOT research
studies include: literature reviews, meta-analyses, editorials, comments
or letters relating to previously-published research studies

3. Library Homepage - www.nova.edu/hpdlibrary

4. Click on the Assignment Help tab

5. Please click the CINAHL link

7. We are going to create an account

8. Click [Create a new Account] if you do not
have an EBSCOhost account.
 Save preferences  Organize your research with folders
 Share your folders with others  View others' folders
 Save & retrieve your search history  Create email alerts and/or RSS feeds
 Access your saved research remotely

10. Sample Search:
Diabetes
Expanders:
Apply related words
Limiters –
Published Date from:
January 2007
January 2012
English Language;
Peer Reviewed;
Research Article

11. Results: 16,818
NOW
Refine results: Full Text
[Update]

12. NOW the list is : 6693

13. Let’s go back to S1
by clicking Review
Results, click on #1
Then Click on the
title of the first
article

14. Now lets Find the full-text

17. After choosing the
database we want to
use, we have to
navigate to the article
Keep your original
citation handy and
navigate to the article
by either clicking on
the current issue OR
archives/previous
issues.

18. **Articles are usually
listed in page number
order
If you do not see it
listed, use the title or
author ‘s last name in
the search box for the
journal to locate the
article.
Choose PDF over HTML
or Full-Text as this will
include tables, graphs
and images.

19. That is one way to locate a research study.
The next option is PubMed.
Please go back to the Assignment Help tab on
the PA LibGuide and click on the second box
link for PubMed

21. Searches in the ‘Publication Type’ Field:
Case Reports
Clinical Trial - Phase I, II, III, IV
Comparative Study
Controlled Clinical Trial
Multicenter Study
Twin Study
Validation Studies

25. This means we don’t have it in print

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