Research Article Intervention Effectiveness

Write your PICO question

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Identify the intervention from your selected PICO question that you seek to find support for in the literature.

Depending on your selection of PICO question, you will be searching for an experimental or quasi-experimental research study that shows the effectiveness of your intervention in reaching the indicated outcomes. What type of study are you searching for?  Identify the research design of a study that would meet the assignment criteria.

List 3-4 keywords for the intervention of your PICO question that you searched with. Why did you select these words?

Which search engine(s) did you use? (Ovid, CINAHL, Proquest)

Which limiters to the search did you check? (randomized controlled trial, publication type->research, peer reviewed, dates, full text, etc)

Why did you select these limiters?

How many results did you get?

How did you determine if the studies in the results meet the assignment criteria?

Did you find a study that tested the effectiveness of the intervention?  Identify this study. (Write it in APA reference format)

If yes, attach the study in the assignment link as a PDF file.

If a study was not found, did you change your search techniques based on results?

If a new search was needed, identify the changes made.

Did you change your search techniques based on results?

For your attached study, how did it support the intervention in your PICO question? Identify the elements it answered:

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Does the attached study answer the PICO question?  What was the answer? How was this determined? Identify the actual findings of the attached study.  How did you determine the study you selected met the assignment criteria?