Question
You have to write a paper on the “treatment of anxiety”. Which search strategy would find the least number of documents?
Anxiety AND psychotherapy.
Anxiety AND psychotherapy AND sedative-hypnotic.
Anxiety OR psychotherapy OR sedative-hypnotic.
Anxiety AND sedative-hypnotic
Anxiety AND psychotherapy.
Anxiety AND psychotherapy AND sedative-hypnotic.
Anxiety OR psychotherapy OR sedative-hypnotic.
Anxiety AND sedative-hypnotic
Answers
GPT-4o mini
To find the least number of documents, the best search strategy would be:
**Anxiety AND psychotherapy AND sedative-hypnotic.**
This search combines all three terms with "AND," which means that only documents that contain all three terms will be included in the results. This is typically more restrictive than the other options and would likely yield the smallest number of relevant documents.
The other options:
- **Anxiety AND psychotherapy:** Would yield more documents that include either of the two terms.
- **Anxiety OR psychotherapy OR sedative-hypnotic:** This is an inclusive search that can result in a very large number of documents since it will return documents that contain any one or more of the terms.
- **Anxiety AND sedative-hypnotic:** This would also yield more documents than the combination of all three terms considered together, as it only requires two of the terms.
Thus, the combination of all three with "AND" is the most restrictive and will yield the least number of documents.
**Anxiety AND psychotherapy AND sedative-hypnotic.**
This search combines all three terms with "AND," which means that only documents that contain all three terms will be included in the results. This is typically more restrictive than the other options and would likely yield the smallest number of relevant documents.
The other options:
- **Anxiety AND psychotherapy:** Would yield more documents that include either of the two terms.
- **Anxiety OR psychotherapy OR sedative-hypnotic:** This is an inclusive search that can result in a very large number of documents since it will return documents that contain any one or more of the terms.
- **Anxiety AND sedative-hypnotic:** This would also yield more documents than the combination of all three terms considered together, as it only requires two of the terms.
Thus, the combination of all three with "AND" is the most restrictive and will yield the least number of documents.