Preventing HIV/AIDS, other STIs and Pregnancy: Interventions for Adolescents

Search Strategy

With the assistance of a CDC librarian, the team searched for published studies in the following databases: CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, PubMed, Sociological Abstracts, Web of Science, ERIC, POPLINE, NTIS, EPO, CRISP, and the online Cochrane Controlled Trials Register. In addition, we also reviewed references listed in all retrieved articles, published and unpublished reports provided by team members and elsewhere, and references from a search of an electronic database continuously updated and maintained by Prevention Research Synthesis (PRS) in the Division of HIV and AIDS Prevention at CDC.

The teams considered studies for inclusion if they were:

• Published between 1988 and 2007
• Published in English
• Studies conducted in the United States

Keywords:

Portions of the search terms below in parentheses indicate allowances for variation of a keyword, such as the singular and plural versions.

1. Adolescent(s)
2. Teenager(s)
3. Teen(s)
4. Youth
5. Young
6. Student(s)
7. School
8. College
9. Undergraduate
10. (1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9)
11. Human Immunodeficiency Virus
12. HIV
13. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or AIDS
14. AIDS
15. Sexually Transmitted Diseases
16. STD
17. STI
18. (11 or 12 or 13 or 14 or 15 or 16 or 17 and prevent(ion/ing)
19. Sex(ual) Behavior(s)
20. (Sex(ual)) Risk(y) Behavior(s)
21. Sex(ual) Risk Reduction
22. Sex(ual) Risk Taking
23. Sex(ual) Risk Avoidance
24. Teen/adolescent/teenage pregnancy
25. Unwanted pregnancy
26. Unintended pregnancy
27. Abstinence
28. Postpon(ing) sex/intercourse
29. Delay(ing) sex/intercourse
30. Sexual Activity
31. Sexual Acts
32. Protected Sex
33. Sexual Involvement
34. Repeated Childbearing
35. Repeat Pregnancies
36. Parenting
37. Cohabitation
38. Mothers
39. Fertility Control
40. (18 through 39OR’d together)
41. Program evaluation
42. Outcome stud(ies)
43. Primary Prevention
44. Impact stu(dies)
45. Follow-up stud(ies)
46. Intervention
47. Education
48. Preventive/ion
49. Evaluation/ing
50. Program
51. Promotion
52. Outcome(s)
53. Initiative
54. Design
55. (41through 54OR’d together)
56. 10 and 40 and 55

Excluded Terms

Finally, to focus the search results to US-based studies, the following search terms/geographic locations were EXCLUDED:

• Africa
• Atlantic Islands
• Australia
• Britain/ish
• Canada
• Canad(ian)
• Caribbean Region
• Central Region
• Central America
• England
• Europe
• Greenland
• Indian Ocean Islands
• Latin America
• Mexico
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands (not Hawaii)
• South America

Note: This strategy was used rather than the INCLUSION of US-based studies because not all US-based studies are explicitly indexed as such; some allow for the assumption of a US-based study unless otherwise indicated.