HEALTHY CARE
There is a lot I have learned from the PICO topic. That is all about identifying quality and researchable questions for the mining of research from the databases. It is also about interpreting medical as well as assimilating and applying findings to clinical practice. Thus, I have learned that coming up with a properly formulated question is the first crucial thing to conduct quality research in the medical field (Aslam and Emmanuel, 2010). Therefore, adequately defined research topics lead to appropriate research study methodologies and designs. More also, I have learned the importance of focusing on a single question when especially based on its relevance to patients’ health. For example, the question of how dietary patterns compare with the non-diabetic population in the adult diabetic population is a single question. The issue is also capable of addressing various problems, as presented by PICO.
It is surprising to note that diabetic people should eat foods that are low in salt and fats. The meals must instead contain more vegetables and fruits. More also, a diabetic person needs to take food that is rich in carbohydrates (Sami et al. .2017). That all is unlike for a non-diabetic person who can take all meals with less caution. It is frustrating to learn that the PICO framework concentrates much on population type, intervention, comparison, and outcomes only. That may have the effects of forgetting other very crucial issues concerning a topic or research. However, I have enjoyed this research manner. That is because it looks at many essential questions one may want to address in medical analyses like those for diseases like diabetes. This foray is also enjoyable as it is crucial in the scholarly pursuits. That is because the areas it covers help a researcher to come up with complex findings.
The question of diabetic research and dietary patterns compares significantly. The diets for diabetes individuals are thus different from that of non-diabetic. That is where the diabetic individuals have to avoid fatty and salty foods while taking more saturates, fruits and vegetables (Sami et al. .2017). That is unlike for the non-diabetic populaces who can take fatty and salty fruits and any food combination without minding a lot. Therefore, that answers the components of PICO, which are population, intervention, control/compare, and outcome. In this case, the population is adult diabetic persons. The intervention is the dietary persons where the group to compare with diabetic persons is the non-diabetic population. Finally, the outcome is the development of diabetes, as it is the main issue under research.
References
Aslam, S., & Emmanuel, P. (2010). Formulating a researchable question: A critical step for facilitating good clinical research. Indian journal of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS, 31(1), 47.
Sami, W., Ansari, T., Butt, N. S., & Ab Hamid, M. R. (2017). Effect of diet on type 2 diabetes mellitus: A review. International journal of health sciences, 11(2), 65.