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Mental Health-focused resources

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Searching for Mental Health Research

Language and terminology is important when researching mental health. Some research use a single overarching phrase term, like "mental health" or "wellbeing", while others focus on a particular issue, such as "body image" or "goal-setting".

You can use structured searches with boolean formatting to account for highly variable terminologies. For example:

("mental health" OR "wellbeing" OR "social ties" OR "community participation")

In some databases, like PubMed, you can use standardizes subject headings to find articles labeled as being about a particular subject.

In PubMed, the following subject headings relate to mental health:

The above is an abbreviated list; contact your librarian for help with subject headings on PubMed or other databases.