Design your search strategy
Identify Keywords
Consider the topic title:
The relationship between diet and dental health in adolescents
For example, you would break this topic down into its separate components: diet, dental health, adolescents
Identify alternative terms and spellings
Consider synonyms: nutrition, oral health, teenagers
Consider spelling variants: British and American spelling
Consider truncation: dent$ will find dental, dentist, dentistry, denture, dentin, dentures etc. diet$ will find diets, dieting, dietician etc
Combine terms
Combining with OR broadens your search and is used to combine synonyms or related terms
Combining with AND narrows a search and is used to combine different ideas or concepts
