Slides #3

Question 1

PICO elements

Answer 1

Identifying important parts of a well built research question.

P: Patient
I: Intervention
C: Comparaison
O: Outcome

Question 2

P: Patient

Answer 2

What is the best way to describe the patient population? MOST important characteristics.

Age, sex, activity levels, medical conditions.

Question 3

I: Intervention

Answer 3

What is the intervention being studied? What do participants have to do or recall?

What type of PA, Intensity, Time, Type?

Question 4

C: Comparison

Answer 4

Is there another group that needs to be studied.

One mode of exercise vs. Another, or no exercise versus another.

Question 5

O: Outcome

Answer 5

What specific health outcomes are of interest?

Disease risk? Muscular strength, quality of life, academic performance.

Question 6

Boolean operations:

Answer 6

AND, OR, NOT, *, ( ), “ “,

AND: when u want two different sports together In one article.
OR: when u either want baseball or basketball in an article but not both.
NOT: when u want baseball not basketball no overlap
( ): concussion AND (football OR hockey) contains concussion and one or both of football OR hockey.
“ “: narrows search football or “American football”

Question 7

APA

Answer 7

Reference list starts on new page. Centred.

Double spaced, indented

Question 8

Critique search history based on common elements of smart search.

Answer 8

Expand and narrow search