Virtual Workshops
Bias in Mental Health Literature
Date: Monday, October 4, 2021
All students at the Health Sciences Center Campus will become practicing healthcare workers, who may work with patients dealing with mental health issues. Since people with mental health diagnoses face an extraordinary amount of stigma, as you gather literature on mental health topics, you too must be careful to review for bias in the literature. Biases can occur through all stages of the literature search process: from the way study results are reported, to how books and articles are indexed in library catalogs and databases, and to dangerous algorithms in search engines. In this workshop, you will learn about implicit bias in mental health and medical research, and we will offer strategies for how to avoid these biases. This will help students, faculty and healthcare practitioners find unbiased information to use in their clinical care and to advocate for their patients.
Searching for Mental Health Topics
Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Interested in searching for mental health topics? Learn how to search PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, and Healthy People 2030 to locate evidence-based mental health research. Learn about search filters you can borrow and how to create your own reproducible PubMed (NLM) search strategies for mental health topics. You will receive a copy of the search strategies used during the workshop to begin your mental health research.