CINAHL – The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature provides access to the top literature sources in these subjects areas.

Content areas include health care books, nursing dissertations, standards of practice, clinical trials, audio visual materials and full text journals

Search options allow for keyword basic and advance searches with health related focus options and specific CINAHL subject terms.

You can search for CINAHL through OneSearch or link to it from our

Population Health Subject Guide Our UWA Subject guides aim to introduce you to a range of

databases and Ebook platforms relevant to your topic area.

This guide also provides links out to Australian and

International sources of statistical information and Systematic Review sources

You can start with a basic search term and choose from a number of

suggested Boolean search strings.

In this first search we are identifying any articles with any of these related

terms for “adolescents”

Too many results to browse!We will need to edit our search.

Starting your search in the CINAHL Database

These are the search options you are given when you select

to “edit” your search.

Our selections have reduced the results numbers

considerably.

There are more limit options visible

when you select “Advanced Search”

Tip: Choose your limits and then add your search terms

Refining your search in the CINAHL Database

Use Search History to combine your search concepts using AND, OR

Select “View Results” to

display them

Select “Edit” to add and remove

further limits

A range of ways to

limit and review your

results

Building up your Search Strategy

You can also build your search using CINAHL subject terms by clicking the “suggest subject terms” option. This will display a list of related terms you can select from to build your search string.

Click above to view the video tutorial on this topic.

Using CINAHL Subject Index