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Suggested answer for Exercise 3
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Exercise 3 -- Advanced with Preview/Index
Find citations to articles about female genital diseases in adolescents and health education methods and trends used to educate this group. Limit the results to citations to articles published in English since 1990. Hint: Use Preview/Index and Limits.

This is a suggested answer. Your approach, as well as the number of results retrieved, may vary. New citations are added regularly to PubMed.

  • Step 1: Click on Preview/Index.

  • Step 2: Go to the "Add Term(s) to Query or View Index" section of the screen and use the All Fields pull-down to select the MeSH Terms search field.

  • Step 3: Enter your first term (female genital diseases) in the text box. Click Preview. PubMed adds the term to the query box and previews the number of search results.

  • Step 4: Return to the "Add Term(s) to Query or View Index" section of the screen. Notice that the search field is set to MeSH Terms. Enter your next term (adolescents) in the text box. Click Preview. PubMed adds the term to the query box with an AND operator and previews the number of search results (i.e., female genital diseases AND adolescents).

  • Step 5: Return to the "Add Term(s) to Query or View Index" section of the screen. Notice that the search field is still set to MeSH Terms. Enter your next term (health education) in the text box. This time, click Index. PubMed displays the MeSH Terms Index beginning with the term health education. In this demonstration, the user has already scrolled through the Index to display the desired terms.

  • Step 6: Select the terms health education/methods and health education/trends by holding down the Ctrl key (PC) or the Command key (Mac) and clicking on the terms. Click Preview. PubMed automatically ORs the selected terms together, ANDs them to the query, and previews the number of search results.

  • Step 7: Click on Limits. Use the Published in the Last date, and select Specify Date Range to choose articles published from 1990 to present (i.e., From: 1990). Use the Language menu to select English. Click Go.

 


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