By Sarah Bonato, Reference/Research Librarian, CAMH Library
World Mental Health Day is observed on October 10th every year, and aims to raise awareness of mental health issues and mobilizing efforts to support mental health. One of the best ways to keep up with new developments and initiatives is to keep up to date with new research. But that can be a challenge, since from 2011 to 2015, 84,760 articles were published in psychiatry journals worldwide*.
But PubMed is considered to be the best free source available worldwide—coverage extends back to 1946 with over 23 million citations and new research is added daily. In PubMed, you can look up mental health-related topics, see trending articles and also set up search alerts to keep current. As well, PubMed aims to keep current with the changes in research terminology and new names for treatment, interventions and issues. Every year new MeSH subject headings are introduced and now before 2018 is over, see below for some new MeSH subject headings that can be used for focused searching on mental health topics.
- Cancer Survivors
- Child, Adopted
- Child, Foster
- Clinical Deterioration
- Drug Misuse
- Gender-Based Violence
- Health Risk Behaviors
- Healthy Agin
- Involuntary Treatment
- Involuntary Treatment, Psychiatric
- Mental Health Recovery
- Mental Status and Dementia Tests
- Occupational Stress
- One Health
- Psycho-Oncology
- Procrastination
- Recidivism
- Self-Management
- Survivorship
- Work Engagement
The complete list of new 2018 MeSH terms can be viewed at https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2018/download/2018NewHeadingsSingleColumn508.pdf.
* (Zhang, J., Chen, X., Gao, X., Yang, H., Zhen, Z., Li, Q., ... & Zhao, X. (2017). Worldwide research productivity in the field of psychiatry. International journal of mental health systems, 11(1), 20)
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