Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Research

Running head: CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE RESEARCH 1
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Research
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CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE RESEARCH 2
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Research
Aim
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is serious disease impacting several people in
the world. The World Health Organization estimates that the disease impacts more than 60
million individuals around the world especially the ex-smokers. It is a progressive and non-
reversible respiratory disease and it is deemed to be one of the primary causes disability a
well as deaths around the globe claiming more than 4.5 million lives every year (Lange et al.,
2015). As such the research aims at examining the risk factors of COPD.
PICO & the Research Question
Define your PICO
Population Australian Aboriginal population
Intervention Relationship between smoking and COPD
Comparison/Control Non-smokers
Outcome Influence of contracting Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary
Disease.
Write your research question below in the PICO format
In Australian Aboriginal population (P), how does being a smoker compare or relate (I) to
being non-smoker © influence contracting Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (0).
Search Strategy
a) Keywords
The keywords used to search for evidence include, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease,
Australian Aboriginal population, and smoking. These words were important because they
contained the primary information for the research.
b) Databases