Discussion of the Search
Databases
The database used for this research project was CINAHL Plus with Full Text and MEDLINE with Full Text. These databases both focus on nursing and health information and it was very easy to search for articles. CINAHL Plus alone contains more than 730 nursing journal articles and MEDLINE contains more than 1,400 health journals. CINAHL Plus was chosen due to it containing a …show more content…
These keywords were chosen because the topic focused on childhood obesity and how to prevent it through physical fitness and exercise. Both CINAHL Plus and MEDLINE contained many heading that allowed for many keywords to be placed. Both of the databases also contained an advanced search option to narrow down to specific nursing journals. The results when searching by each keyword was a lot more then 27,000 articles, but with the combination of keywords it narrowed down to 20 different