1. Kristen L. Young, MLIS, AHIP William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library Friday January 18, 2013

2. Starting point

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Classification of questions

8. 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

9. Selecting your terms Exercis* Exercise Exercises Exercised Exercising

10. Evidence pyramid

11. Create a new account

13. Signed in?

14. Exercise – home screen

15. Select exercise

16. See the tree?

17. Review the first citation

18. Gestational diabetes

19. Gestational diabetes use…

20. Tree view

21. Search for pregnancy

23. Search screen - home

24. Search for gestational diabetes

25. Gestational diabetes – prevention & control

26. Combined with other terms

27. Limiting your search results further Limit: publication type  systematic review

28. Limited results

29. Review results

30. Exporting

31. 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?