• Brenda Linares, MLIS, AHIP

• Librarian and Outreach Liaison

• UNC Chapel hill• blinares@unc.edu

NC LIVE Health Information Resources

AGENDA •Introductions/Goals/Objectives•Part 1:

Consumer Health/Clinical Trials•Part 2:

Nursing Resources•Part 3:

Drug Information Resources•Part 4:

Mental Health Resources•Closing Remarks/Evaluations

Introductions

NameInstitutionLearning objectives Fun fact about you!

http://www.terroirist.com/2012/02/daily-wine-news-who-me/

*Use NC Live databases to find health information

*Identify the basic guidelines for providing health information

*Locate credible consumer health information

*Answer basic nursing or mental health questions

*Identify basic drug information guidelines 

*Answer drug/pharmaceutical related questions

Objectiv

es

Dad - Roger 35 yrs Mom - 32 yrsSon 1 - 10 yrsSon 2 - 7 yrsSon 3 - 6 yrsSon 4 - 4 yrsDaughter – 2 yrs

HTTP://RECRUITERPOET.COM/2011/10/18/REFLECTIONS-OF-FAMILY-QUOTES-AND-PICTURES/

1800’S FAMILY WILL ACCOMPANY US THROUGH OUR HEALTH INFORMATION JOURNEY

WHAT DO YOU USE TO EVALUATE A WEBSITE?

EVALUATING WEBPAGES

HTTP://WWW.SPAT.PITT.EDU/

PART 1:

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION

AND CLINICAL TRIALS

• Founded on Standard Reference practices

• Takes into account privacy, specialized nature of medical information

http://nnlm.gov/outreach/consumer/ethics.html

Guidelines

for P

roviding

Health

Infor

mation

Can you tell me some guidelines for providing health information?

1. Provide a welcoming and safe environment.

2. Be aware of the person who is asking the question.

3. Get as much information as possible.

4. Verify medical terminology in a medical dictionary or encyclopedia.

GUIDELINES

5. Be aware of the limitations of medical information.

6. Provide the most complete information to answer the question.

GUIDELINES (CONT)

GUIDELINES (CONT)

7. Do not interpret medical information.8. Provide referrals.

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GETTING STARTEDNC LIVEhttps://www.nclive.org/

HEALTH AND INFORMATION CENTER

• Health Source: Consumer Edition

• NC Health Info

• MedlinePlus

CONSUMER HEALTH

INFORMATI

ON RESOURCES

HEALTH SOURCE: CONSUMER EDITION

NC HEALTH INFO

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MEDLINEPLUS

CLINICAL

TRIALS http://

www.clinicaltrials.gov

1. Roger thinks that his oldest son might have some mental issues. He describes the signs, and you realize he might be schizophrenic. Can you tell me some of the symptoms of schizophrenia?2. For which other languages is there information available on this topic in MedlinePlus? 3. Can you find a clinical trial on schizophrenia for children in another country other than the US?

EXERCISE

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PART 2: NURSING

RESOURCES

• CINAHL • Health Source:

Nursing/Academic Edition

• MetaSearching• Saving Results

http://www.artistsvalley.com/previewicons-Medical-Healthcare-Icons/Nurse_Information-icon.html

CINAHL• Subjects: nursing, biomedicine,

alternative medicine, consumer health, and allied health

• More than 3.9 million records• Indexed more than 5,000 journals• Full text dating back to 1937• Searchable by keyword, controlled

subject heading, or citation linking

• Key word searching

• Subject heading

• Citation searching

• Saving results and personal preferences

CINAHL

KEYWORD SEARCHING

SUBJECT HEADING

SUBJECT HEADING

LIMITS

RESULTS SCREEN

MAJOR AND MINOR SUBJECTS

SEARCHING BY JOURNAL NAME

CITED REFERENCES BROWSING

• 829 abstracted and index journals

• Over 500 full-text journals• 436 peer-reviewed, full-

text journals• USP DI: Volume II Advice

for the Lay Patient

• Stedman’s Medical Dictionary

HEALTH

SOURCE: NURSING

& ACADEMIC ED

ITION

METASEARCHING

1. Mom is taking care of her older mother and feels like she can’t take it anymore. She comes to you and asks if there are articles about depression and caregivers. 2. How can you advise her how to search for this in CINAHL?

EXERCISE

SAVING RESULTS/PERSONAL PREFERENCES

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PART 3: DRUG

RESOURCES

• Drug Information Guidelines

• MedlinePlus Drugs and Supplements

• NIH Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)

• Other resources to keep in mind

Can you tell me some guidelines for providing drug information?

DRUG INFORMATION GUIDELINES

1. Be aware if the person asking the question.2. Never prescribe (or dispense) any medication, herb, or

supplements.3. Never provide an authoritative answer.4. Recognize that the most complete information may not be available

to you.5. Always refer the patron to his pharmacist and/or physician for

complete information.

DRUG INFORMATION: CRITERIA FOR GOOD SOURCES

A good source of information is…..

1.Independent and unbiased.2.Current.3.Available online but easy to read offline.4.Appropriate to the health literacy level of your patron.

DISCUSSION •What drug related questions have people asked you?

•Where did you go for answers?

NC LIVE Browse Subjects Health and Wellness Information Center MedlinePlus

• Provided free by the National Library of Medicine• Consumer appropriate content

MEDLIN

E PLUS:

DRUG & SUPPLEMEN

TS

DRUGS

EXAMPLE: ZANTAC

NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) Source: Natural Standards

Evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies

MEDLINEPLUS: HERBS AND SUPPLEMENTS

NC LIVE Browse Subjects

Health and Wellness Information Center National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

http://nccam.nih.gov/

NIH CENTER

FOR

COMPLEMEN

TARY AND

ALTERNATI

VE MEDICINE

(NCCAM)

PILLBOX

http://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov/

Developed to aid in the identification of unknown solid dosage pharmaceuticalsEnables users to identify solid dosage forms based on physical criteria: imprint (characters or number printed on a medication), shape, color, size, and scoring. Users are shown thumbnail images of possible matches. These images are continually updated as the user enters additional information.

DAILYMED

http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/

• High quality information about marketed drugs

• Includes FDA labels (package inserts)

Roger was told that ginkgo biloba is a good supplement to take. He comes to ask you if there are any risks of taking it. 1. What will your answer be? 2. What resource did you use to answer this question?

EXERCISE

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PART 4:

MENTAL HEALTH INFORMATION RESOURCES

AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY DEFINITION OF “MENTAL HEALTH”What is “mental health”:

“1. A state of emotional and psychological well-being in which an individual is able to use his or her cognitive and emotional capabilities, function in society, and meet the ordinary demands of every day life.

2. A branch of medicine that deals with the achievement and maintenance of psychological well-being

3. A person’s overall emotional and psychological condition “

• Lots of resources exist for health information• Pubmed (MEDLINE)• CINAHL, etc.

• Lots of resources exists for sociology•Sociology Abstracts (not in NC Live)•ERIC (education)

FINDING MEN

TAL HEA

LTH

INFORMATI

ON

PubMed treats mental health differently in the MeSH hierarchy than “physical” health•Diseases category vs. Psychiatry & Psychological category• Category includes mechanisms, disorders, processes, and discipline•Mental Health: “The state in which a person is well adjusted”

USING NON-SPECIFIC

RESOURCES

Where do you go for mental

health information?

• Academic Search Complete

• National Institute of Mental Health

NC LIVE A

VAILA

BLE

RESOURCES

ACCESSING DATABASES FROM NC LIVE

ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH

Roger wants more information on eating disorders because he is noticing that his wife is becoming too thin. He wants to clarify some myths about eating disorders that he heard from his co-worker? 1. Can you tell him two myths that are not correct?2 What resource did you use?

HTTP://RECRUITERPOET.COM/2011/10/18/REFLECTIONS-OF-FAMILY-QUOTES-AND-PICTURES/

EXERCISE

• http://lib.law.washington.edu/lawlibrarianship/CILLPapers/Harrell2012.pdf

• “Dealing with Difficult People in the Library” by Mark R. Willis 1999

SERVING PATRONS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS

*Use NC Live databases to find health information

*Identify the basic guidelines for providing health information

*Locate credible consumer health information

*Answer basic nursing or mental health questions

*Identify basic drug information guidelines 

*Answer drug/pharmaceutical related questions

Re-visit Objectives

Workshop evaluation -

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Thank you!Brenda Linares, MLIS , AHIP

blinares@unc.edu