Work Stress and Cardiovascular Disease

This topic can be searched using Scopus. You can find it by title in the catalogue, or there's a link on our library home page (on the right hand side under Quick Links) It has a number of tutorials to guide you in effective searching.

This is our largest database which allows you to search for articles in over 16,000 journals. It includes all journal literature indexed in Medline (the United States National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database) from 1996 onwards.

Obviously we won't have some of the journals, but there's a database called Libraries Australia (you'll find it by title in the catalogue) which you can use to check which libraries hold the titles we don't have.

 

Boolean Logic

Logic is a very important element in seaching, and faulty logic can really skew your search results. The search boxes in Scopus help you to keep your logic logical. In other databases you'll need to take care of the logic without this assistance and you may find our notes on how Boolean searching works helpful.

Searching Scopus for Work Stress and Cardiovascular Disease

Below is an example of a basic search in Scopus. Further down the page are some additional options you may like to try.

Notice that we've allowed for either "work stress" or burnout in the first box, and we've set it to search only in Article Title,

In the second box we have two phrases - "cardioascular disease" or "heart disease". Using inverted commas makes sure the words are searched as phrases, not separated.
For the second search box we've left the default setting which will look for the phrases in Article Title, Abstract, Keywords.

Now all you need to do is click on Search

When the results are displayed you'll find that each citation has a link to check for full text - to enable you to see if we have electronic access to the article

If you look at the far right of the image above you'll see the number 50.
Clicking on this link it will display 50 articles which include this article in their reference list.

There's also a link that lets you view Abstract + Refs
This is a surprisingly useful option that may lead you to a lot of other relevant articles

If we click on the Abstract + Refs link for this article, then look at the 26th reference in the list, we find that it's been cited 124 times

Clicking on the link will display the list of 124 articles which have cited it in their reference list.

Some Additional Options - If you're feeling adventurous

Every time you change the words you use your search results will change. Sometimes you'll need to remember to allow for synonyms, differences in British and American spelling, and singular and plural forms of words. Remember that you will be able to use truncation (there is an example below using *), but the symbols may vary from database to database.

Here are some more search options you might like to explore

• Try searching "job stress" instead of "work stress" in the first search box.
• Try searching "coronary artery disease" instead of "heart disease" in the second search box
• Try searching cardio* in the second search box, instead of "cardiovascular disease" - using * on the end of a word, or a word stenm allows for the word, or word stem, to be searched in its present form, or with any other endings.