Help Text for CDC Abstracts
This section provides tips on performing effective searches by providing information on the
following topics.
All of the terms that you enter will be connected by "AND". This means that the database
will search for presentations (or records) that have all of the terms you enter.
EXAMPLE:
To find presentations about women and HIV, enter the following:
Your results will include:
Who Uses HIV Prevention Counseling for Women?
HIV Prevalence among U.S. Childbearing Women, 1989-1994.
Predicting Contraceptive Use among Women at Risk for or Infected with HIV.
Right-hand truncation is available in this database by using *. Truncation enables you to
search for more than one form of a word by entering a root word and placing a * at the end of it.
EXAMPLE:
To find titles of presentations with the root word clinic (searching for clinic, clinics,
clinician), enter the following:
Your results will include:
HIV Seroincidence Among Persons Attending Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinics In The
United States
Randomized Controlled Trial of Intensive Group Counseling to Reduce Risk Behaviors in High-Risk
STD Clinic Patients.
On the "Search CDC Abstracts" page, you will see a frame called "CDC Fact Sheets". Thses fact
sheets provide background information on main topics of presentations in the database. They
are intended to provide to readers with a basic understanding of certain topics relating to HIV
and AIDS.
There are two disply options that control the format and the number of results displayed
to your screen. These options are found on the bottom of the "Search CDC Abstracts" page.
Select Display Format
- Display a list of matching abstracts.
This option will display a list of presentation titles to your screen. To view
the full record, click on the highlighted title.
- Display complete information about all matching abstracts.
This option will display all of the results in full format to your screen.
Maximum Number of Abstracts to Display
To change the number of abstracts to display,
simply click your mouse into the number box, delete the current number and enter a new one.