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2. Now use these terms from the question above to create your PICO research
question so that you have a clear purpose for your search:
In (P) Depression does (I) anti-depressants compared with (C) cognitive
behavioural therapy reduce (O) depression?
4. The table below will help you to think of the other terms that you might also
like to look up when searching for evidence to help you answer your question
this is part of basic planning for a research search.
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We ask you to look up alternative terms because sometimes articles from health systems
call things different names for example, in Australia we sometimes us the term
community nurses, but in the UK they often talk about district nurses if you only
searched under district nurse youd miss all the articles which used the other term you
would be missing some of the picture!
6. What kind of study do you think would best answer your question? Select here
which type of article you might want to access. You can also use these to refine
your search if you have a lot of papers.
Systematic Review Qualitative Study
Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) Economic Evaluation
Cohort Study Clinical Practice Guidelines
Case-control Study/Case Series
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The next step is to combine similar terms using OR so that you have all the papers on the
same topic together
The final step is to find papers which only talk about both the population AND the
intervention. To do this you use AND in the database.
Key terms:
1 Depression
2 Mental health
3 Mental illness
4 Dysthymia
5 Antidepressive agents
6 Anti-depressant medicine
7 Cognitive therapy
8 Behaviour therapy
9 Cognitive behaviour therapy
1 1 or 2 or 3 or 4
0
1 5 or 6
1
1 7 or 8 or 9
2
1 10 and 11 and 12
3
1 1__ OR__2_OR__3_OR___ (combine alternate terms for same topic)
4
1 _4_ OR__5_OR__6_OR___ (combine alternate terms for same topic)
5
1 ____AND____
6
OR = combine alternate terms for the same topic to get as many
potential papers as possible!
AND = combine the groups of topics to get papers which cover ALL the
terms!
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