NURS 2109 (Term 3): Major Scholarly Paper

• transition* AND ( hospital* OR discharge OR readmission OR care or plan ) AND stroke

1. (psychosocial or "lived experience" or "adaptation psychological" or "quality of life") NOT TI (pediatric* or child* or infant or youth or teen*) AND stroke
    
2. (psychosocial or "lived experience" or "adaptation psychological" or "quality of life") NOT TI (pediatric* or child* or infant or youth or teen*) AND stroke AND (mobil* OR balance OR gait)
    
3. (psychosocial or "lived experience" or "adaptation psychological" or "quality of life") NOT TI (pediatric* or child* or infant or youth or teen*) AND stroke AND (speech OR speak* OR talk*)

You will have identified three themes related to your adult client's health challenge. Try separate searches for articles about each theme.

Here are some examples of CINAHL searches that combine keywords for a health challenge and an accompanying theme:

• autoimmune diseases AND depress*
  Challenge with this topic: little research on a specific disease, for example Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease, which is a rare autoimmune disorder.
  Search strategy: search the broader disease category instead of the specific disease.
   
• MW asthma AND MW anxiety NOT ( child* or pediatric* )
  Challenge with this topic: there are a lot of articles about asthma and a lot of them are about children/youths with asthma.
  To help narrow/focus the search:
  - MW means the word is found in a CINAHL subject heading, indicating it's a strong focus of the article - helpful when you get too many results.
  - NOT child* will exclude results where child, children etc. appear in the article description - helpful for the topic of asthma.

In the boxes below there are links to CINAHL searches to get you started. All searches are limited to articles from peer-reviewed journals published from 2016-present.

Reminders about searching:

• transition* will search for transition, transitions, transitional, etc.
• mobil* will search for mobile, mobility, etc.
• words in quotations are searched as phrases - for example "quality of life"
• AND between words means that ALL of these terms must all be in the search results
• OR means that ANY of these terms can be in the search results
• NOT TI means that these words cannot be found in the article title. This is an easy strategy to screen out most articles that are not about an adult population.
• you don't have to capitalize AND, OR - it's also ok to type and, or