Evidence Based Nursing Research

Running head: EVIDENCE BASED NURSING RESEARCH
EVIDENCE BASED NURSING RESEARCH
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PART 1:
Answer 1
A) Yes, the study had clearly stated the purpose or objective of the research.
B) Influenza vaccine was funded in Australia especially for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander children who were less than 5 years old. Hence, the primary purpose of the study
was to evaluate if distributing letter or the pamphlet directly to the parents or the guardian’s
will tend to improve the uptake of influenza vaccine within the Aboriginal recognized
children (Borg et al. 2018).
Answer 2
A) The above mentioned objective of the research paper was relevant to nursing practice
because it focused on the influenza vaccine and what strategy can be used to promote the
uptake of influenza vaccine among the parents or guardian of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander. Any subject is relevant to nursing practice if it is related to the care and
development of an organizational culture that will promote better care and support to the
population with best nursing practice. Nursing practice focus on high quality of care and
better patient health outcome. Therefore, this study also focus on providing information or
knowledge that will increase the health outcome of the children and improve the health
outcome with better care towards their individual health (McLeod, Adunuri and Booth 2019).
Answer 3
A) Cultural conflict can be considered as the possible risk of participating in the study as the
participants belong to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and due to
discrimination problem it was highly possible that the people would step back and not
participate effectively (Chidgzey et al. 2015).

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B) No, the risk of participating in the study was not clearly identified by the author.
C) As the risk was not identified by the author, hence no strategies were proposed to
minimise the risk. The only risk that was highlighted in the study was the high infection-risk
and how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are under high risk of obtaining the
infection (Chidgzey et al. 2015).
D) Yes, the author had taken approval from the ethics committee to undertake the research
study. The research study was approved by Monash University Human Research Ethics
Committee.
E) The researcher in this study had involved waiver of consent for the involved participants
who were primarily the parents or guardians of the children belonging to Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander in agreement with the national statement of Australia. The application
form that included the consent of the participants was not published with the research study
(Borg et al. 2018).
F) No such risk was identified because the study had focused on the promotion strategy that
will promote the concept of influenza vaccine among the children of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander community (Chidgzey et al. 2015).
Answer 4
A) Randomized control trial study design was selected by the author to conduct the study that
was parallel and multi-arm in nature.
B) Yes the considered study design was suitable for the identified research question (Borg et
al. 2018).
C) The research question was to evaluate if distributing letter or pamphlet to the parents or
guardians of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children was effective in promoting the

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concept or benefit of influenza vaccine to reduce the high mortality or morbidity rate among
children due to influenza. Hence, in order to justify the research question the author had to
select randomized control design method where they will randomly select the participants and
randomly distribute them in three different groups, where one group will receive the letter,
the other group will receive the pamphlet and the third group will receive no direct
communication (Borg et al. 2018). From the response of the participants present in each
group the result will be analysed and which technique is best suitable will also be identified
for promoting the concept of influenza vaccine among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
children.
Answer 5
A) The participants included in the study were the parents or guardians of Victorian Children
recognized under Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander within the Australian Immunisation
Register (AIR). 5534 participants were involved and randomly selected for the study.
B) The inclusion criteria was that only the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents or
guardians were selected for the study who belonged to the Australian Immunisation Register
(AIR) and registered under Medicare and whose children were in between the age of 6
months to 5 years. Based on the immunization report, the death index of Victoria was
highlighted and the person who was deceased was excluded from the study (Borg et al.
2018).
C) The participants were recruited on the basis of randomized control trail study design
where the parents or the guardian belonging to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander were
selected and distributed under three different condition acquiring 1:1:1 allocation. The
participants belonging to the first condition had received letter, the participants belonging to
the second condition had received pamphlet and the participants belonging to the third