Honey Dressing for Wound Healing in Diabetic Patients: A PICO(t) Analysis

EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE
USING PICO(T)
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INTRODUCTION TO THE NURSING TOPIC
The wound healing in diabetic patients is a challenging aspect, the unstable blood
glucose levels interferes with the immune system functionality and provokes the
inflammation process (Dangwal et al. 2015)
The enhanced blood sugar also prevents the oxygen and the nutrients from
energizing cells, along with that the peripheral neuropathy also slows the
process of healing as well.

INTRODUCTION CONTINUED....
Hence, the context of wound healing is a
challenge for the health care
professionals and many ne initiatives are
being incorporated (Dangwal et al.
2015).
The use of honey to accelerating wound
for diabetic patients will be researched in
this paper using PICO(t) format.

PICOT TABLE & RESEARCH QUESTION
P: Population Diabetic patients with wounds
I: Intervention Use of honey
C: Comparison No use of honey or usual care
O: Outcome Accelerated wound healing
T: Time
The research question for the study is:
Does use of honey accelerate wound healing in the
patients with diabetes as compared to the use of
usual care for wound healing?

SEARCH STRATEGY AND FORMATION OF
THE QUESTION
A variety of databases had been used for identifying the research evidence
The used databases include PubMed, MEDLINE,
Cochrane library, and Google scholar
The search terms or phrases used for the research
included “honey”, “ accelerated wound healing”,
“Diabetes”, “foot ulcers”, and “Usual care”
The search terms or phrases were joined using
Boolean operators such as “AND”, “OR”, and
“NOT” (Eriksen and Frandsen 2018)

SELECTION CRITERIA
Inclusion criteria:
• Articles published in the last 5 years
• Articles published in English
• Articles using human subjects with diabetes
• Articles that researched on adult consented participants
Exclusion criteria:
• Articles that were published before 2014
• Articles published in any other language other than English
• Articles with research done on animal models
• Articles involving participants that are not adults