Dialog

When searching Dialog I started using the basic search. I typed in the term ADHD as my natural language search. I also selected the limiters of full text, scholarly journals, and peer reviewed. With this search I retrieved 1493 results, in each result Dialog highlighted all of the search terms so that you were able to easily see that they all contained information about your topic.

I then added "In children" and received 1249 results, of which most were on the topic of detecting and treating ADHD in children. Because of the overwhelming amount of results I decided to also limit them to the United States-US which left me with 185 results, I then limited it to publication between 2008-2018 and was left with 166 results.

Of these results few caught my eye and towards result 15 and on there were a lot that weren't on the topic of ADHD. The best result from my Natural Language search was the following result. 

For my Controlled language search I started by going to the Advanced search option on the upper right corner of the home page search bar. 

Once on the Advanced search they give an option of using a thesaurus. 

When I selected the thesaurus option it brought up a list of possible thesaurus' that I could search to find terms to use. 

Since I am using a ProQuest database I decided to use the ProQuest thesaurus. I searched for ADHD terms and was given the result of Attention Deficit Disorder. 

I noticed that there was a yellow box next to the terms so I clicked on it to see what it would say and it gave me a definition of what Attention Deficit Disorder is as well as what you use the term in place of and what the related terms are. 

I then went back to the advances search page and typed in my terms of Attention Deficit Disorder and used the boolean AND to add that I wanted results for hyperactivity AND children. 

My search with no limiters brought back 1521 results. 

I then limited my search to bring back results that were full text, peer reviewed, scholarly journals, from the United States-US, and published between 2008-2018. I was left with 156 results. 

Similar to the natural language search this search also had the first few results being on the topic I searched and from there the results only contained part of my search terms. 

The best results I retrieved with the controlled language search was results number three from the New England Journal of Medicine 

This article contained information about ADHD diagnosis, treatments and therapies, medicine, as well as author recommendations. 

I enjoyed searching Dialog due to the ease of navigating. I was able to quickly search and limit my first time on the database, Dialog also made it very easy to find the thesaurus. I love that they have links to various thesaurus' that you can search through for your correct terms. Dialogs use of highlighting makes it easy to spot search through the results to find the best one for your topic. Another thing that helped was when narrowing by publication date Dialog gives you a graph to see how many results are within which time frame that gives you an idea of what years had the most information published.