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Database Searching - Health: Step 1: Build The Search

Guide for Database Searching for the Health Sciences

The Question:

How has the Covid19 pandemic affected the mental health of senior citizens in the US?

The final search:

(seniors OR senior OR elderly OR elder OR aged OR old OR older) AND ("covid 19" OR covid-19 OR coronavirus OR "sars cov 2" OR sars-cov-2 OR "severe acute respiratory syndrome") AND ("mental health" OR anxiety OR anxieties OR depression OR depressive OR stress OR stresses OR stressing OR lonely OR loneliness OR isolate OR isolated OR isolation)

*See the tabs below "The Search" above for details of how the search was created