Based on the PICO table, the pico formatted question for this topic is:
"Compared with non-mindfulness based approaches, what is the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation for stress (depression and anxiety
Step 2: Search literature databases and set up a table and identify an article.
This is the lengthiest part of the process. Accurately searching the databases and setting up or identification of the studies is the most critical aspect of this process.
From here, we will take two courses of action:
- We will identify a bunch of individual primary studies, synthesise the results of the studies and construct the evidence base (more work)
- We will identify a Cochrane Collaboration Review and use this to construct the evidence base (somewhat straightforward)
In this example, we will search Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Pubmed. The following table returns the result of pubmed search:
Search and retrieval of results from Pubmed