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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
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