Searching using Academic Search Complete

I first starting my search using Natural Language and simply just searched ADHD as well as Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder and limited my search to only bring back results that were published within the range of 2015-2018, were full text articles, and were scholarly or peer reviewed. These both brought back over 2,000 results as shown below.


Looking through the results it seemed as if they were mostly all about some type of ADHD but 2,0000 results is just too many for me so I decided to search using controlled language. Academic Search Complete (ASC) offers a Thesaurus of terms which they called Subject Terms. This is located at the top of the search page 

After clicking on this it brings you to the page that gives you the option to search or scroll through their subject terms (shown below). I searched within the subject terms for ADHD and got an error message in red notifying me that the term I searched could not be found.    However, when I scrolled down I saw the following matches.ADHD was the first term listed and next to it they advised that I use ATTENTION-deficit hyperactivity disorder. From here I scrolled back to the top and input these terms, exactly as they had them, into the search box. I also limited my search again to 2015-2018, full text, peer reviewed and again receive over 2,000 results. I then decided to use the building block search and enter in the Boolean term (and) then adding children and used the same limiters.
 

With the results list still being well over 1,000 I added another boolean (and) followed by intervention. 

With all the same limiters and the boolean phrases ATTENTION-deficit hyperactivity disorder (and) children (and) intervention I received 300 results, which I am happy with. Looking through the results I found two that I thought might be useful to me. I eliminated the first one titled "Pathways to care and clinical profile of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in New Delhi, India." after reading the absract. I eliminated this one due to the abstract stating that during their study some of their findings were based on households in where the family was illiterate, due to me being based in the US and that not being a major issue here as it is there I concluded that this data would not be ideal for me to use.
The one that I found to be the best hit for me was "Interventions for ADHD in Children and Teens: A Focus on ADHD Coaching." This article acknowledges that ADHD continues on into adulthood and that it can impact academic and/or occupational achievement. "ADHD is one of the most widely treated dis- orders in the field of child and adoles- cent psychiatry, with between 5% and 10% of children and adolescents diagnosed with ADHD worldwide" (Antshel, 2015). The majority of this article outlines different studies that have been done using various styles and types of coaching interventions for children and teens with ADHD. I learned that there are various styles and types of interventions that can be used for ADHD treatment/control and that ADHD is the most widely treated adolescent psychiatric disorder. ADHD is also most commonly treated with medication and that medication does not help all children nor does it help with academic achievement and can have side effects. Interventions can reduce the need for medication and when used together can improve function. Overall conducting my searches through JSTOR and ASC I had no problems finding information about ADHD that I could use. When applying the limiters of published from 2015-18 and the boolean AND with my terms ADHD, Children, Intervention I only received 29 results on JSTOR and I feel as if that is too small of an amount of results for me to have a good idea of the topic and to be able to find an article that matches my topic and search terms.