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Systematic Review Tutorial

Finding your Words

Break down Concepts

  1. Extract main concepts from your PICO or other research question.
  2. Each concept becomes a Search Block
  3. Shape keywords based on each concept in the search block

In school-aged children, does a replacing physical education with social-emotional learning class reduce incidences of fights?

PICO component

Plain Language

Search Keywords

Population

School-aged children

“school-aged child*” OR child* OR Youth OR teen* OR adolesc* OR kid* OR “elementary school child*” OR “middle school child*” OR “high school child*” OR “elementary school student*” OR “middle school student*” OR “high school student*” OR “elementary school*” OR “high school*” OR “middle school*”

Intervention

Social Emotional Learning

“social emotional” OR “emotional intelligence”

Comparison

Physical Education

“physical education” OR gym OR PE OR “phys ed”

Outcome

Fight incidence

fight* OR violen*