LibGuides: HHPE 364 Psychosocial Intervention and Referral: Finding Articles

CINAHL: Basic Searching (3:13)

Advanced Searching in CINAHL (3:45)

Overview of advanced searching in EBSCO's CINAHL database.

Sample Searches

The following searches were completed through the library's Primo system, PubMed, or other subject-specific databases.

Wrestlers, Hydration, and Body Weight
Four articles were retrieved in this PubMed search. Search strategy:
"High school wrestlers" AND "body composition" OR "body weight" AND "weight loss" AND dehydration OR "water in the body" OR hydration
Hydration Education High School Wrestlers
Search EBSCO databases, Academic Search Premier and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Entered phrase in search box: "hydration education for high school wrestlers". Resulted in 314 articles, could also filter by date.

Top Allied Health Databases

CINAHL with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Indexing for almost 3,000 journals in the fields of nursing and allied health, with full text for more than 600.

Medline
Covers the literature of biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences. 1949 to the present.
Proquest Nursing and Allied Health Source
Healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. Search hundreds of journals and thousands of dissertations.

PubMed This link opens in a new window
From the National Library of Medicine, PubMed includes MEDLINE and related databases. Over 18 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. PubMed may link to content to which the GFU library does not provide access. Please contact a librarian if you need assistance.

SportDiscus with Full Text
Covers biomechanics, drugs, exercise, kinesiology, movement science, nutrition, occupational health & therapy, physical fitness, physical therapy, rehabilitation, sports & exercise psychology,coaching & education, and sports medicine.
Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials & Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
After you have pulled up the Academic Search Premier database on the EBSCOhost platform, click on the Choose Databases link (just above the search boxes). Select Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Click OK to return to the search interface.

How to Format a PICO Question/Statement Tutorial

This tutorial provides an animated overview on the process for formatting a PICO question/statement. Also, watch the video below on using PubMed (through the George Fox University library) to format PICO-based search strategies.

Formulating an Answerable PICO Statement

Searching a PICO in CINAHL

Watch this 6 minute, 25 second video tutorial on how to format your PICO into an effective search in the CINAHL database. Close captioning is available.