School of Nursing and Midwifery

School of Nursing and Midwifery NURS 3044: Research Methodology Assignment 2: Review Protocol/strategy --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Student Name: Student ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Review Topic: [state the topic that your research question relates to] Background: The Research Question and its Importance(600 words) • State your developed research question including the Population, Intervention, Comparison (if relevant) and Outcomes (PICO) OR Population, Intervention/Issue, Outcomes (PIO). Note: the question must relate to the relevant nursing or midwifery scenario. • Describe each element of the research question using the relevant PICO or PIO framework. • Articulate the significance of the research question. In other words, provide an explanation using appropriate references as to why this research question is important to different aspects of nursing and/or midwifery practice* *Different aspects to consider may include: 1) clinical practice; 2) research, 3) education; 4) policy development Keywords and Combinations (200 words equivalent): List the keywords relevant to your research question (with the use of truncation, abbreviations and wildcards where appropriate) P I C O List the key word combinations (using appropriate Boolean operators) you used to search online Health databases for relevant research articles. Search Strategy: List the database(s) where you used the key words and their combinations to search for relevant research articles to answer your research question: Results- The Peer Reviewed Articles (700 words equivalent –this is a reflection of the effort required) Note: All chosen articles must be primary research ie: where the authors have identified an issue/problem and collected information/measurements and presented this information. A primary research article is not a: systematic review, integrated review, clinical guideline, editorial or commentary. List the 4 relevant research articles you found using UniSA Harvard referencing style. 1. 2. 3. 4. Use the 4 research articles you found to complete one (or more) of the following tables as relevant to your selected articles. *Please delete irrelevant tables before submission of this assignment. Table 1. Qualitative studies Article Reference (authors and publication date) Methodology (ie: ethnography, phenomenology,) Population (how many participants, age, gender, disease, etc) Issue (what was being studied) Context (what was the study setting?) Outcome (what were the main findings in relation to the issue?) 1 2 3 4 Table 1. Experimental quantitative studies Article Reference (authors and publication date) Study Design (ie: cohort, RCT,) Population (how many participants, age, gender, disease, etc) Intervention (what was being implemented) Comparison (what was the intervention compared against?) Outcome (What are the consequences from the intervention?) 1 2 3 4 Table 1. Observational quantitative studies Article Reference (authors and publication date) Study Design (ie: cohort) Population (how many participants, age, gender, disease, etc) Issue (e.g. the thing that is being measured) Context (what was the study setting?) Outcome ( (What was reported in relation to what was measured) 1 2 3 4 Discussion (1000 words) Using the critiquing skills acquired in Research Methodology-Assignment 1, choose the BEST and WORST articles from the 4 relevant articles in terms of their methodological quality and explain why they are the best and worst. References [Please use correct UniSA Harvard Referencing]