Systematically identifying relevant research: Case study on child protection social workers’ resilience

Paula McFadden; Brian J Taylor; Anne Campbell; Janice McQuilkin

doi:10.1177/1049731512453209

Systematically identifying relevant research: Case study on child protection social workers’ resilience

Paula McFadden, Brian J Taylor, Anne Campbell, Janice McQuilkin

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Context: The development of a consolidated knowledge base for social work requires rigorous approaches to identifying relevant research. Method: The quality of ten databases and a web search engine were appraised by systematically searching for research articles on resilience and burnout in child protection social workers. Results: ASSIA, Social Services Abstracts and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) had greatest sensitivity, each retrieving more than double any other database. PsycINFO and CINAHL had highest precision. Google Scholar had modest sensitivity, and good precision in relation to the first 100 items. SSCI, Google Scholar, Medline and CINAHL retrieved the highest number of hits not retrieved by any other database.Conclusion: A range of databases is required for even modestly-comprehensive searching. Advanced database searching methods are being developed but the profession requires greater standardisation of terminology to assist in information retrieval

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	626-636
Journal	Research on Social Work Practice
Volume	22
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731512453209
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 1 Nov 2012

Keywords

Databases
bibliographic
evidence based practice
information storage and retrieval
review literature as topic
systematic literature searching

UN SDGs

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