NSG6999 South University High Blood Pressure Patients PICOT Question

Using the following table, search the five databases based on your PICOT question. Under findings, note the number of relevant articles found—you may not find something in every database. Under features, discuss what you liked about that database.

Here is my PICOT question, of course the one that you made for me!And the PICOT statement.

PICOT question

Are adults with high blood pressure who regularly exercise and have healthy food to control their condition, compared to hypertension patients who use medical treatment to control their condition help to manage their blood pressure and reduce exposure to heart disease and stroke?

PICOT statement

(P) adults who are clinically diagnosed with hypertension and with repeated co-morbidities, (I)Those adults will be subjected to regular exercise and healthy eating, (C) they will be compared to high blood pressure patients who treat and manage their condition using medication, (O)it is expected that there will be reduced risk to hypertension and regulated blood pressure. (T) this outcome will be tested within a recovery period of 8months.

Post a comprehensive discussion summarizing your search for evidence. Attach your completed table for those that would like to see your search, but make sure your discussion covers the main concepts. You may not find what you are looking for in every search—and that is OK—but you must search every database to see what may be out there.

Exploring the Literature

PICOT Question: Are adults with high blood pressure who regularly exercise and have healthy food to control their condition, compared to hypertension patients who use medical treatment to control their condition help to manage their blood pressure and reduce exposure to heart disease and stroke?

Research Tool	Search Tips	Search Terms & Limits	Findings	Features
CINAHL CINAHL is an SU subscription-only resource that offers full text access to 336 scholarly journals and indexes over 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. Indexed journals do not provide access to full-text. Just because it is indexed in does not mean the library has full-text access to the journal. SU can always request articles for students via Interlibrary Loan, but the service is not instantaneous	Look at the Major Subject Heading in the Full Record Use the Limits Feature: Example: Publication Type=Systematic Review Try the CINAHL Heading search:	Keyword search: Limits: CINAHL Heading search: Limits:
PubMed PubMed is a free health science citation & abstracts index from the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.	Look at MeSH Terms in Full Record Use the Limits Feature: Examples: Article Type=Meta-Analysis; Age=All Adult Look for the open access Free articles!	Keyword search: Limits: MESH search: Limits:
Cochrane Library Cochrane Library provides access to the Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews. Full text of reviews are subscription only. Index summaries are a public resource. Indexed journals do not provide access to full-text. Just because it is indexed in does not mean the library has full-text access to the journal. SU can always request articles for students via Interlibrary Loan, but the service is not instantaneous	Use the Simple Search and the Advance Search Features Allows you to search with MeSH Terms Check out the New Reviews Browse reviews by topic	Keyword search: Limits: MESH search: Limits:
Dynamed	Use the Simple Search and the Advance Search Features Allows you to search with MeSH Terms Check out the New Reviews Browse reviews by topic	Keyword search: Also browse by:
TRIP Database TRIP is a clinical search engine to locate publicly available clinical evidence.	Limit to: Systematic Reviews Guidelines-US	Keyword search: Limits:
SU Library Search	Library Search is setup just like an EBSCO The Library even has a specialized PICOT search setup in Library Search—must go to Advance search to get to PICOT option
Other Databases:

As you work on your capstone project proposal, you will want to share your progress with your peers and instructor and seek or provide guidance or share insights. By the due date assigned, go to the Discussion Area and post responses to the discussion question. All responses should be posted to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area. It is important to support what you say with relevant citations in the APA format from both the course materials and outside resources. Include the South University online library in your research activities utilizing not only the nursing resource database, but also those pertaining to education, business, and human resources. Be sure to spend some time in Library Search it is setup just like an EBSCO database and gives you the experience of learning how to navigates databases, and provides you with a larger pool of information within which to search.