week 2-505

Week 2: PICOT/PICo and Practice Questions

• Using the area of interest from Week 1, identify the following.
  • Will you be using a quantitative or qualitative approach for your EBP project proposal?
  • Explain why this approach is the best one to provide information for your area of interest.
  • Create a PICOT/PICo question using the PICOT/PICo format for quantitative and PICo for qualitative approaches.
  • Identify your practice question, being sure to include the following.
    • For a quantitative approach
      • A questioning part such as "what is," "what are," "is there," or "are there"
      • Population being studied
      • Variables being studied
      • Suggestion of the relationship between variables
    • For a qualitative approach
      • Phenomenon or concept of interest
      • Group or population of interest
      • Suggestion of which qualitative research design is being used

Choose either quantitative or qualitative- only the proposed approach needs to be addressed.