A nurse writes the following PICOT question: How do patients with breast cancer rate their quality of life? How should the nurse evaluate this question?
a. A true PICOT question regardless of the number of elements
b. A true PICOT question because the intervention comes before the control
c. Not a true PICOT question because the comparison comes after the intervention
d. Not a true PICOT question because the time is not designated
ANS: A
A meaningful PICOT question can contain only a P and O: How do patients with breast cancer (P) rate their quality of life (O)? Note that a well-designed PICOT question does not have to follow the sequence of P, I, C, O, and T. The aim is to ask a question that contains as many of the PICOT elements as possible.
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