Exploring the Literature
NSG6999 WK4 Discussion
Using the following table—search the 5 databases based on your PICOT Question—under findings note the number of relevant articles found—you may not find something in every database. Under features discuss what you liked about that database. ON the discussion board summarize your search—attach your chart for those that would like to see your search. You may not find what you are looking for in every search—and that is OK—but you must search every database to see what may be out there.
Exploring the Literature
Picot Question:
In pediatric patients who are diagnosed with obesity (P), will an educational intervention focused on diet and exercise (I), compared with no educational intervention (C), result in a reduced body mass index (O), over a 6-month period (T)?
| Research Tool | Search Tips | Search Terms & Limits | Findings | Features |
| CINAHL CINAHL is an SU subscription-only resource that offers full text access to 336 scholarly journals and indexes over 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. Indexed journals do not provide access to full text. Just because it is indexed in does not mean the library has full-text access to the journal. SU can always request articles for students via Interlibrary Loan, but the service is not instantaneous | · Look at the Major Subject Heading in the Full Record · Use the Limits Feature: · Example: Publication Type=Syste-matic Review · Try the CINAHL Heading search:
| Keyword search: Diet and physical activity and childhood obesity
Limits: Publication date: 2015-2020 Peer reviewed Full text English language
CINAHL Heading search: Childhood obesity Pediatric obesity Physical activity, exercise Diet, nutrition Education
Limits: Publication date: 2015-2020 Peer reviewed Full text English language | Relevant Articles: 1,094 | The database is easy to use for specific searches using the Boolean operator and it gave many relevant results.
Using childhood obesity as opposed to the term pediatric obesity yielded many more results. |
| PubMed PubMed is a free health science citation & abstracts index from the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
| · Look at MeSH Terms in Full Record · Use the Limits Feature: · Examples: Article Type=Meta-Analysis; Age=All Adult · Look for the open access Free articles!
| Keyword search: Childhood obesity
Limits: Free full text In the last 5 years
MESH search: Childhood obesity, healthy diet, exercise, education
Limits: Free full text In the last 5 years | Relevant Articles: 7,123
238 results when narrowed to Meta-Analysis, Systematic Review. | The database is easy to use. I do not feel as if it as helpful as the CINAHL database. |
| Cochrane Library Cochrane Library provides access to the Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews. Full text of reviews is subscription only. Index summaries are a public resource. Indexed journals do not provide access to full text. Just because it is indexed in does not mean the library has full-text access to the journal. SU can always request articles for students via Interlibrary Loan, but the service is not instantaneous | · Use the Simple Search and the Advance Search Features · Allows you to search with MeSH Terms · Check out the New Reviews Browse reviews by topic | Keyword search: Childhood obesity
Limits: Date range from June 25, 2015 through June 25, 2020
MESH search: Childhood obesity
Limits: Within the last 5 years | Relevant Articles: 2,326, there are 51 articles from the year 2020, alone. | The Cochrane database is interesting.
I like how it shows the type of article using tabs at the top of the list. |
| Dynamed
| · Use the Simple Search and the Advance Search Features · Allows you to search with MeSH Terms · Check out the New Reviews Browse reviews by topic | Keyword search: Childhood obesity
Also browse by: Pediatric obesity | Relevant Articles: 31, 26 with pediatric obesity. | Dynamed is also easy to use but returned fewer results than the other databases. |
| TRIP Database TRIP is a clinical search engine to locate publicly available clinical evidence.
| · Limit to: · Systematic Reviews · Guidelines-US
| Keyword search: Childhood obesity
Limits: Since 2016
| Relevant Articles: Original search returned 9, 224 results. | The search was easy to complete. The articles can be narrowed down based on type of research and a variety of specifications. |
| SU Library Search | · Library Search is setup just like an EBSCO · The Library even has a specialized PICOT search setup in Library Search—must go to Advance search to get to PICOT option | Keyword search: Childhood obesity
Limits: Full text Peer-reviewed 2016-2020 Academic journals English language
Advanced search: Childhood obesity and diet and nutrition and physical activity or exercise.
Limits: Last 5 years Peer Reviewed Full Text English language
| Relevant Articles: 49, 500. Advanced search returned 10, 022 articles that could be relevant on this topic! | The SU library search returned the most articles. Additionally, the PICO search and Advanced search function is easy to na |
