Use this guide to get help with APA citations and formatting: APA Citation Guide.
Use the PICO acronym to help you form a research question. These categories will help you consider all the angles of your topic and come up with keywords to use when searching in a database.
P: Patient, Population, or Problem
I: Intervention (or Exposure)
C: Comparison (or Control)
O: Outcome
Note that you might not have a C, or your C might be the absence of your Intervention. Considering the Comparison will still help you search for your topic.
To select a database, use the "Article Databases" list on the Find Sources tab on this guide.
These two options are a great place to start when searching a PICO question:
Nursing and Health Sciences database that collects peer-reviewed journal articles covering Nursing, Biomedicine, Health Sciences Librarianship, Alternative Medicine, Consumer Health, and 17 Allied Health Disciplines.
Nursing collection featuring scholarly literature, reference and clinical training materials, dissertations and systematic reviews.
