The focus for Week 2 is on questions: 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
- For a quantitative approach
