Shannon Olsen

            Through evidence appraisal and synthesis, I discovered many things about my topic of epidural use being associated with postpartum depression rates in pregnant women. Through my group’s research we were exploring multiple credible journal articles to try and answer the question of whether or not the use of epidural analgesic reduces or increases postpartum depression rates in pregnant women. While going through each journal article, almost all the findings of each article shows that there is not a strong/definite…

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Since choosing the topic of post-partem depression regarding epidural use and obtaining peer-reviewed scholarly articles, my group has needed to revise our PICOT question. Our original question about whether or not epidural use increases or decreases post-partem depression rates in women, had no time frame in the question. My group decided to add a time frame of 1-year post-partem, what the rates would be. My group came across a few challenges while getting this far into our research assignment. Some…

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