Topic: Non traditional approaches for management of type 2 diabetes mellitus: PI
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Question
Topic: Non traditional approaches for management of type 2 diabetes mellitus:
PICO Worksheet and Search Strategy
Define your question using PICO: Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome.
Population: __________________________________________________________________
Intervention: __________________________________________________________________
Comparison: __________________________________________________________________
Outcome: __________________________________________________________________
Write out your question: _______________________________________________
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List the main topics and terms from your question that you can use to search.
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Check any limit that may pertain to your search:
__ Age __ Language __ Year of publication
Type of study/publication you want to include in your search: (From Step 2 of tutorial)
__ Systematic Review or Meta-Analysis
__ Clinical Practice Guidelines
__ Critically Appraised Research Studies
__ Individual Research Studies
__ Electronic Textbooks
Check the databases you searched:
__ Cochrane Library
__ Joanna Briggs
__ CINAHL with Full Text
__ PubMed Clinical Queries
What information did you find to help answer your question?
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__ Systematic Review or Meta-Analysis
__ Clinical Practice Guidelines
__ Critically Appraised Research Studies
__ Individual Research Studies
__ Electronic Textbooks
Explanation / Answer
1. Nontraditional approaches for management of type 2 diabetes mellitus:
PICO Worksheet and Search Strategy
Define your question using PICO: Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome.
Population: Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Intervention: Non-traditional approaches for management of type 2 diabetes mellitus (Complementary and alternative medicine: Yoga, Massage, Acupuncture, Biofeedback, Hydrotherapy and Aromatherapy)
Comparison: Patient with traditional approaches for management of type 2 diabetes mellitus (Nutrition therapy and physical activity, Pharmacotherapy)
Outcome: Fasting Blood glucose level within normal range (70–99 mg/dl), improved quality of life
Write out your question: What are the non-traditional approaches for management of type 2 diabetes mellitus?
2. List the main topics and terms from your question that you can use to search.
Simple database searches should start with Problem and Interventions.
Use the AND or OR in search terms while searching. Synonyms also can be used.
Search terms which can be used:
Yoga and type 2 diabetes mellitus, Acupuncture and Type 2 DM, Massage therapy or Aromatherapy.
3. Check any limit that may pertain to your search(Inclusion criteria and Exclusion criteria)
Limit and narrow the search using demographic variables and search terms.
Age
Language
Year of publication
4. Type of study/publication you want to include in your search: (From Step 2 of tutorial)
Systematic Review or Meta-Analysis
Critically Appraised Research Studies
Individual Research Studies
__ Systematic Review or Meta-Analysis
__ Clinical Practice Guidelines
__ Critically Appraised Research Studies
__ Individual Research Studies
__ Electronic Textbooks
5. Check the databases you searched:
__ Cochrane Library
__ Joanna Briggs
__ CINAHL with Full Text
__ PubMed Clinical Queries
6. What information did you find to help answer your question?
Formulation of the evidence based model research question is greatly supported by PICO format. Along with PICO, Time also can be included.
Steps:
Frame the question.
Define a search strategy: can use descriptors or MeSH search terms.
Narrow initial search result in terms of variables, considering Comparison, Outcome and Time.
Filtering the collected evidence.
The boolean worksheet can be used to plan the database searches.
__ Systematic Review or Meta-Analysis
__ Clinical Practice Guidelines
__ Critically Appraised Research Studies
__ Individual Research Studies
__ Electronic Textbooks