Posted: September 18th, 2017

Research, Appraisal questions to answer

Use the article attached.  Read the attached abstract, introduction, and the first subsection under “Methods” of the report by Nam and colleagues (“Effect of culturally tailored diabetes education”) and then answer the following questions: (place subtitles in for all questions)

APA format. Reference with these two books too.

Brown, S. J. (2014). Evidence-Based Nursing: The Research-Practice Connection. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Heavey, E (2011) Statistics for Nursing: A Practical Approach. Sudbury, MA. Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC

a) What type of research review did the investigators undertake?

b) Did the researchers begin with a problem statement? Summarize the problem in two or three sentences.

c) Did the researchers provide a statement of purpose? If so, what was it?

d) Which bibliographic databases did the researchers search?

e) What keywords were used in the search? Were the keywords related to the independent or dependent variable of interest?

f) Did the researchers restrict their search to English-language reports?

g) Did the researchers restrict their search to published studies?

h) How many studies ultimately were included in the review?

i) Were the studies included in the review qualitative, quantitative, or both?

j) Did the researchers do an adequate job of explaining the problem and their purpose in undertaking the review?