Critical Appraisal of a Research Study on Lived Seclusion Experience of Patients in Acute Psychiatric Hospital

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Introduction:
Critical appraisal is the systematic process to evaluate a research paper and comment
about trustworthiness, value and significance of the findings for target setting. Critical appraisal
skill is necessary to inform practice and identify possible ways to resolve a clinical problem
(Elwood 2017). The essay will primarily focus on the concept of critical appraisal where the
main purpose of this essay is to critically appraise a research study by Ezeobele et al. (2014)
investigating about lived seclusion experience of patients in the acute psychiatric hospital in the
United States. The main rationale for choosing this article for critical appraisal included high
prevalence of mental illness and the negative impact of seclusion on patients. After critically
apprising the article different recommendation can be made according to the seclusion
experience of the pati8ent and effective strategy can be used to overcome the situation (Ezeobele
et al., 2014). The study would help to evaluate perception related to experience of seclusion
among patient in psychiatric hospital in United States.
Critical evaluation of the research paper:
For the critical evaluation of the research paper, the Caldwell’s critiquing framework will
be used for critiquing the research findings. The framework consists evaluation tool for both
qualitative research and quantitative research and involves students with higher level of study.
The framework provides questions for evaluation of qualitative and quantitative research
(Creswell and Poth, 2017. For this paper, the qualitative component of the Caldwell’s tool will
be used for data collection that include question or headings concerned with the concept of novel
theory and to what extent is the new theory is used. The transferability and credibility of the

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research paper was considered under this critical appraisal tool (Davison, Ndumbe & Clement,
2015).
Title and authorship:
A good title in a research journal is one which reflects the purpose of study, the study
population, outcome of interest and research design (Grant 2013). The paper by Ezeobele et al.
(2014) has a clear title that reflects the primary aim of the research paper which is to explore
lived seclusion experience of the patient admitted in psychiatric hospital, the research population
who are included in the study (patients experiencing seclusion) and the research design that is
used for collecting the data extracted in the study (qualitative study) (Tarkang, Kweku and Zotor,
2017). The credibility of the author is understood from the fact that author have expertise as a
professor in College of Nursing, senior nurse manager and Associate Director of Nursing. It is
very crucial to understand the credibility of the author as the research paper is further used by the
readers and considered as the reference for conducting any future research work in the similar
domain. In addition, they have affiliation with reputed institutes such as The University of Texas
Health Science Centre and the College of Nursing. This knowledge reflects the paper is a high
value and credible paper with innovative insights (Ezeobele et al., 2014).
Abstract:
An abstract is defined as the brief summary of the research article or any thesis that is
used to identify the important points or topics covered in the paper. It allows the readers to
comprehend the importance of paper and quickly locate the primary purpose of the paper
(Wahyuni, Fitriani and Nainggolan, 2016). The abstract of the paper is complete and it covers all
the key or crucial component that is required for the publication of a research article such as aim,

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rationale for the study, study design, sample size, method of research, study findings and
implications of research. The abstract can help any layman to get a brief idea about what the
research is all about and even for easy for the researcher to explain their work in a gist (Fink
2019).
Rationale:
The significance of any research is understood from identification of key research
problem and discussion regarding current gaps in research findings. From the review of literature
of the research article, the author justified that exploring about lived seclusion experience of
patient is important to understand alternative situation to deal with aggressive situations
(Staniszewska et al. 2019). The significance of conducting research in the area was cited by
negative view towards seclusion among patient. The author gave good details regarding the
benefits of conducting research in this areas. This includes achieving benefits like sensitizing
mental health professionals to be empathetic towards aggressive patients and pave for
implementing new nursing interventions to meet needs of such patient (Ramluggun, Chalmers,
and Anjoyeb 2018). The lack of studies related to patient’s perception about seclusion experience
in US justified the need for research in the area.
Literature review:
The literature review is also known as narrative review that is used to review the research
article and understand the background of the study and gain appropriate knowledge of the topic
that will allow the researcher to understand the topic in more depth (Hart 2018). Literature
review provides the in-depth knowledge of seclusion for the patient present in psychiatric
hospital and gives an overview of seclusion, the rate of use of seclusion technique in clinical