PICO/PS Question
Alyssa Dahlgren, RN
Augsburg College

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PICO Question

• P (patient, population, problem) = First-time Mothers
• I (intervention) = diagnosis of postpartum depression
• C (comparsion) = female infants to male infants
• O (outcome)= more often

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Answer

• Not able to answer whether a first-time mother has a higher risk of having postpartum depression based off of the gender of her child
• More research is needed to answer this question

Human-to-Human Theoretical Model

• Joyce Travelbee
• Applies to individual, family, and community
• Five stages to deliver quality nursing care: oberservation, interpretation, decision-making, action, and evaluation

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