Advanced Nursing Inquiry and Evidence Based Practice

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Dr. R. Group Name: Team Alba

Date: 1/20/21

PICO Worksheet

Define your Question using PICO

P Who is the Patient or Population (Ex., age, sex, race, past medical history, etc.) or what is

the Problem (Ex., disease process) you are interested in knowing more about?

Minority women, of low socioeconomic status, between the ages of 12 and 51,

experiencing postpartum depression.

I Are you considering an Intervention?

(Ex., treatment, diagnostic test, etc.) Is

there a specific issue you’d like to

investigate?

Psychotherapy

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Which research method (quantitative or

qualitative) should be used to answer the

study question?

Quantitative (number of resources used, scale of 0 to 10 to describe severity of feelings of depression)

If experimental, what research design

should be used to compare the

intervention group with the comparison

(or control) group?

● randomized controlled trial

● cohort study

● case controlled studies

● case reports

● systematic reviews

● meta analysis

● editorials/expert opinions

C Are you trying to Compare or decide

between two options (Ex., drugs, a

drug and no medication or placebo, or

two diagnostic tests?) (Note: Your

clinical question does not always need

a specific comparison.)

Antidepressants

O What is the Outcome you’d like to achieve? What are you trying to do for the patient? (Ex.,

relieve or eliminate symptoms? Reduce the number of adverse events? improve function?

improve test scores?

To reduce the severity of symptoms in postpartum depression

B

State your Question resulting from PICO:

In minority women, of low socioeconomic status, between the ages of 12 and 51, experiencing

postpartum depression, is psychotherapy more effective than antidepressants in reducing the

severity of symptoms of postpartum depression?

You don’t need all of these commas in your question; only the comma following ‘depression’.

List keywords from your PICO question that can be used for your search.

Depression, postpartum depression, treatment, antidepressants, minority women, low

socioeconomic status, psychotherapy

List other criteria –gender, age, year of publication, or language to be used to limit your search.

Female, 2016-2021, 12-51 years old, prevention, side effects, long term effects, short term

effects, Full text, References available, Abstract available, English Language, Peer-reviewed

List the databases you plan to search: Ex., CINAHL. (Use the databases page from the Library

website for suggestions.)

CINAHL, Medline, ProQuest, PubMed, Gale, Ovid Emcare