Critique of Qualitative Research Article: Interventions to Improve cultural competency in healthcare

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Critique of Qualitative Research Article
Title Interventions to Improve cultural competency in healthcare: a systematic
review of reviews
I. Abstract The abstract meets the requirements since it gives an overview of the article
by stating the aim of the research and suggests the conclusion of the
research and the authors finishes by giving key words of the research.
Introduction
Statement of the
Problem
The researchers did not specify the research problem for the study to enable
the reader to easily locate the problem statement in the text. However, the
authors builds a persuasive argument in the background of the article. Here
the authors talks about cultural competency and traces the concept and
models that revolve around the idea. The research gathers evidence from
different sources and demonstrates the lack of lack clear research findings
on the relationship between organizational culture and employee behaviors.
The researchers therefore identifies gaps that exist in literature in relation to
the topic.
Purpose of the
Study
The study sought to gather and analyze article reviews on previous studies
to develop findings to inform future interventions on the research topic.
The purpose of the study does not offer clear predictions of the relationship
among variables since the study a literature review of secondary literature
rather than primary research. There is no study population but rather the
study uses 19 articles to carry out the research.

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Research
Question(s)
There is no research question but only research topic which is clearly stated
in the heading of the article and in abstract. However, the research topic can
be used to generate variables and their relationship for the study.
Conceptual
Underpinning
The study has no conceptual framework or map to guide in the research but
rather builds on the background of the study to determine the methodology
to be used. Here, the study builds its approach on the discussion in
background of the study which informs the direction of the study and the
exclusion inclusion criteria for sorting the items.
Method
Research Design
The researchers used articles from Medline, Scopus, PsycINFO, Cinahl,
ProQuest (Dissertation/Theses), Eric , and the Cochrane Systematic Review
Database that were published between the years of 2000 and 2011 with the
key words that are stated in abstract (Truong, Paradies, & Priest, 2014).
The exclusion and inclusion criteria used for the study was based on six
criteria as listed below
1. Inclusion of quantitative, qualitative or mixed method
2. Inclusion of health studies
3. Written in English
4. Reviews with literature on cultural competency improvement
5. Reviews with interventions strategies in healthcare.
6. Included studies with more than one outcome.
Further, each review was independently appraised using a health evidence
tool with ten questions focusing on the review document quality with
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evidence based informed principles.
Population and
Sample
The study identified 6,830 reviews, ten percent of the reviews were
sampled. The results were sampled based on purposive sampling where the
researchers used judgement to select the reviews that met the intended
criteria. This led to narrowing down of the studies from 6,830 to 19 reviews
that were purposively selected to be included in the research. This method
of sampling allows the researcher to manipulate samples to meet the
purpose of the study (Earl, 2014). The sample sufficiently meets the needs
of research since it gives an adequate number of reviews in the study.
Data Collection
and Measurement
The operational definition was sufficient since the researchers used the
literature analysis approach to analyze the research articles and the
literature on the research topic. The research tool used for the study was
literature review that allowed the researchers to use analyze different
articles and met the research purpose of the study.
However, the research failed to provide reliability and validity of the
measurement tools despite reviewing the literature to determine if it meets
the needs of the research. Lack of reliability ad validity measures question
the extraction-inclusion criteria adopted by the researchers in selecting the
required articles (Neuman, 2006). This reduces the reliability of the data.
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