Kristen L. Young, MLIS, AHIP William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library Friday January 18, 2013
Starting point
CINAHL: what is it? Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Includes journal articles and many other types of publications about nursing and allied health Contains subject headings specific to nursing & allied health Covers literature from 1937-present
Question or problem statement A 32 year old female who recently became pregnant with her first child has heard a lot about diabetes from her friends - specifically gestational diabetes and would like to know what she can do to try and prevent it during her pregnancy
PICO P Patient How would I describe patients like mine? 32 yo pregnant woman I Intervention What intervention or treatment am I considering? Exercise C Comparison What is the main alternative to compare to the intervention? Other treatment/no comparison treatment O Outcome What is the desired outcome? Prevention and control of gestational diabetes
Creating a search strategy List main topics and alternate terms from PICO Initial: exercise, diabetes mellitus, gestational, pregnancy Related: pregnancy in diabetes, diabetes type I, II Inclusion criteria Gender, age, year of publication, language, type of study
Classification of questions
Connector Words Connect words with AND… Connect words with OR… …to find articles that include both words …to find articles that include either or both of the words pregnancyexercise pregnancy and exercise diabetes OR gestational diabetes gestational diabetes
Selecting your terms Exercis* Exercise Exercises Exercised Exercising
Evidence pyramid
Create a new account
Signed in?
Exercise – home screen
Select exercise
See the tree?
Review the first citation
Gestational diabetes
Gestational diabetes use…
Tree view
Search for pregnancy
Search screen - home
Search for gestational diabetes
Gestational diabetes – prevention & control
Combined with other terms
Limiting your search results further Limit: publication type systematic review
Limited results
Review results
Exporting
Documenting the search Where and when did you search? What terms did you use? How many articles did you locate? Of those articles, how many did you look through and find relevant?