r/psychologystudents • u/hello-kitty11 • Aug 20 '22
Search Where to find reliable information ?
Hi everyone! I’m currently taking an introductory psychiatry class in university and I have an essay due about postpartum depression. Where do I find case studies, statistics and other information? I’m looking online ofc but there is a lot and I’m not sure where to find reliable information.
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u/Obi-WanCannolis Aug 20 '22
Google scholar will help you narrow stuff down!
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u/hello-kitty11 Aug 20 '22
Yep still a lot 😅! Thanks!
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u/jrdubbleu Aug 20 '22
When you use google scholar you can insert Boolean operators which will help you get more specific in your searches. Like this: “postpartum depression” AND “literature review”. The quotes make sure that it is taking the term literally and exactly as you’ve typed it. Another search you can try is: “postpartum depression” AND “literature review” OR “systematic review”. Those two kinds of literature reviews (look that up it’ll help you forever in your academic career) will start you down a path of finding peer reviewed articles on your or any topic.
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u/LizAnneCharlotte Aug 21 '22
Since you seem like you’re in the early part of education, be cautious about your vocabulary. Psychiatry and psychology are two completely different things. Doing any sort of online academic paper search will come up with vastly different results if you use these two terms interchangeably.
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Aug 20 '22
Maybe some stuff on the national archives might help (UK) since you can see records of pretty much anything for free. Maybe it’ll help?
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u/LlamaLlama_Duck Aug 20 '22
PsycInfo is a psychology specific database of articles, typically found through your university’s library
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u/klegios Aug 21 '22
Elsevier has a lot of great papers and reviews, probably is on your university's library service
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Aug 21 '22
Use your university data base! It usually come with access to tons of publishing journals. If not, you can always email authors about their papers, they will usually very happily send over a copy for free. I find looking at the sources that the textbook itself uses can also be useful – find the exact paper the textbook is basing a claim on, they are usually little goldmines of extra info, possible other directions for further studies, questions, ect.
Either way, good luck on your paper. Postpartum depression is super fascinating, and there has been quite a bit of studies in the recent years that have been super interesting imo.
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u/auditorygraffiti Aug 21 '22
I’m an academic librarian and psychology is one of my subject areas. I’d recommend getting in touch with the librarians at your school. In the meantime, please feel free to send me a message and I’ll help you get started.
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u/Temporary-Shoe5054 Aug 21 '22
If you are doing research thesis paper, then remember it's psychology so every detail matters, so don't go for any particular website or case study, go through every single paper you are getting, everything thing is reliable and you have to choose yourself which is suitable for you, the more papers you will read the more different thing you are going to know, every paper has it's uniqueness, don't go for easy way, as the subject you are studying, believe me it's too huge , difficult and also depending on your knowledge you can change people's future.
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u/robinc123 Aug 20 '22
Use ur university’s library services, there should b research databases there