The PICO Question

You must create a PICO Question related to psychiatric patients with the following template:

What are the barriers to implementing x intervention for y patient/population?

x- intervention chosen

y- specific patient or population chosen.

It must be JUICY and with enough support evidence-based info because it will be used in every discussion for this class. 

REQUIREMENTS:

 Do not include multiple populations.  Choose one gender, race, and age range instead of the US population.

• Do not use more than one intervention.  If more than one intervention is used, it is nearly impossible to determine which intervention made the difference. 
• MUST BE MEASURABLE. Be specific with your chosen intervention. It is more specific to say obesity, which is measurable, than overweight.

 Example of a PICO (USE AS A GUIDE)- In women experiencing natural menopause, is herbal medicine more effective than hormone replacement therapy in reducing menopausal symptoms?  I would then use these terms to create the search strategy. 

MUST INCLUDE:

• Describe a real-world, current problem in US psychiatric care.  This could be a problem that affects clinical decisions and may include a broad range of biological, psychological, and sociological issues.
• Summarize the reason this PICO question is so important to advanced practice nursing.

 Submission Instructions:

formatted and cited in current APA style 7 ed with support from at least 5 academic sources which need to be journal articles or books from 2019 up to now. NO WEBSITES allowed for reference entry. Include doi, page numbers, etc. Plagiarism must be less than 10%.