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CINAHL Complete: Searching

An index of over 3,000 journals on nursing and related fields such as consumer health, alternative/complementary medicine, health science librarianship, biomedicine, and more...

Before You Begin

Search CINAHL will be much easier if you have established your research question before you begin. Once you have determined what your topic or question is, begin by doing the following:

1.  Identify the keywords or main concepts of your research question. Below are some types of keywords that you may include:

  • Problem or disease 
  • Therapy or Treatment
  • What you are trying to accomplish - Outcome

2.  Identify other ways to state your keywords, i.e. "hypertension" also referred to as "High blood pressure".