Research Guides: HEA 110: Coutouzis Midterm: Find Library Sources

Before jumping in to search, scroll down and read through the search suggestions and examples for your topic by clicking the appropriate tab in the Build Your Search box on this page.

There are search phrase examples that you can copy and paste into the Summon search box.

Change up the keywords to more closely match your topic.

Ask a librarian for help if you have questions about searching!

Find Articles & E-books

IMPORTANT! If you click a link that does not take you to the article or e-book or you get an error message, report the problem to a PCC librarian so that they can either find the article for your or fix it so that you can access it.

Build Your Search

What topic?

physical fitness
physical activity
student health
health behavior
body composition
body mass index
food habits
weight gain

TIP! Use the Subject Term filter in Summon to narrow your results list to articles/e-books that are focused on particular topics.

Are you trying to prevent or treat?

(prevention OR intervention OR treatment OR program)

What behaviors, factors, or effects are involved?

(behavior OR "risk factors" OR "contributing factors" OR "predisposing factors")
long term effects
short term effects
adverse effects

Who? What population(s)?

"college students"
"university students"
males
females

Where? Location?

Add a country name only if you need information about a specific country or articles that compare a group of countries.
TIP! Use the Subject Term filter in Summon to narrow your results to sources that are mainly about that country.

Mexico
Italy
"United States"
"foreign countries"

Examples:

You can copy and paste these into a library database search box. Change the words or phrases to match your topic(s).

"body composition" AND long term effects
"college students" AND "weight gain" AND (prevention OR treatment OR programs)
("college students" OR "university students") AND "physical fitness" AND behavior

What topic?

"mental health"
depression
suicide

TIP! Use the Subject Term filter in Summon to narrow your results list to articles/e-books that are focused on particular topics.

Are you trying to prevent or treat?

(prevention OR intervention OR treatment OR program)

What behaviors, factors, or effects are involved?

(behavior OR "risk factors" OR "contributing factors" OR "predisposing factors")
long term effects
short term effects

Who? What population(s)?

"college students"
"university students"
males
females

Where? Location?

TIP! Use the Subject Term filter in Summon to narrow your results to sources that are mainly about that country.

Mexico
Italy
"United States"
"foreign countries"

Examples:

You can copy and paste these into a library database search box. Change the words or phrases to match your topic(s).

suicide AND "college students" AND risk factors
depression AND treatment AND "long term effects"
"college students" AND suicide AND (prevention OR treatment OR programs)
("college students" OR "university students") AND "mental health" AND (behavior OR "risk factors" OR "contributing factors" OR "predisposing factors")

What topic?

substance abuse
alcohol use
alcohol abuse
alcoholism
binge drinking
marijuana OR cannabis
amphetamines
"street drugs"
illegal drugs

TIP! Use the Subject Term filter in Summon to narrow your results list to articles/e-books that are focused on particular topics.

Are you trying to prevent or treat?

(prevention OR intervention OR treatment OR program)

What behaviors, factors, or effects are involved?

(behavior OR "risk factors" OR "contributing factors" OR "predisposing factors")
long term effects
short term effects
adverse effects

Who? What population(s)?

"college students"
"university students"
males
females

Where? Location?

TIP! Use the Subject Term filter in Summon to narrow your results to sources that are mainly about that country.

Mexico
Italy
"United States"
"foreign countries"

Examples:

You can copy and paste these into a library database search box. Change the words or phrases to match your topic(s).

"college students" AND "street drugs" AND adverse effects
"college students" AND alcohol abuse AND (prevention OR treatment OR programs)
("college students" OR "university students") AND "drug abuse" AND (behavior OR "risk factors" OR "contributing factors" OR "predisposing factors")

What topic?

sleep
sleep disorders
sleep deprivation
stress
anxiety

TIP! Use the Subject Term filter in Summon to narrow your results list to articles/e-books that are focused on particular topics.

Are you trying to prevent or treat?

(prevention OR intervention OR treatment OR program)

What behaviors, factors, or effects are involved?

(behavior OR "risk factors" OR "contributing factors" OR "predisposing factors")
long term effects
short term effects
adverse effects

Who? What population(s)?

"college students"
"university students"
males
females

Where? Location?

Mexico
Italy
"United States"
"foreign countries"

Examples:

You can copy and paste these into a library database search box. Change the words or phrases to match your topic(s).

sleep deprivation AND adverse effects
stress AND long term effects
"college students" AND sleep deprivation AND (prevention OR treatment OR programs)
("college students" OR "university students") AND stress AND (behavior OR "risk factors" OR "contributing factors" OR "predisposing factors")

Subject Term Filter

Use the Subject Term filters to narrow the list to articles that focus on particular topics, rather than just mentioning keywords.

Build your keyword search phrase and search Summon:
- Example keyword search:
  Australia AND "college students" AND mental health
From the results list, look at the options under Refine Your Search.
Under Subject Terms, scroll through the list (or start typing the country name in the search terms filter box) and click to check beside the country name.
This will narrow the results list down to articles that are focused on that country rather than just mentioning the country as a keyword within the article.