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Nursing Research Appraisal Assignment

   

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Running head: NURSING RESEARCH APPRAISALNursing Research Critical AppraisalName of StudentName of UniversityAuthor Note

1NURSING RESEARCH APPRAISALAssessment 1Article 2: Qualitative Research AnalysisQuestion 1: Study Purpose/Question(a)Did the study have a clearly stated purpose/research question?Yes / No(b)Explain your response below:The main purpose of the paper was to study the concepts of child vaccination among theparents of Singapore, and correlate the gaps that were present in the healthcare system of thecountry and develop vaccination management programs across the country (Luthy et al.2015). The authors described vaccination referencing the world health organization as theprocess of immunizing or developing competence in an individual against a disease that isdeemed infectious. This is basically carried out when a vaccine is administered. Given thatthere are diseases that can be controlled or avoided from the community; vaccination istherefore among the most cost-effective interventions of healthcare that can be adapted toprevent the occurrences of these diseases.The researchers conducted the study which helpedthem realize that to increase a country’s rates of vaccination, it is very important to fullycomprehend the perceptions of the parents in reference to the vaccination of the child.Question 2: Relevance to nursing/midwifery practice(a)Explain how this question was relevant to nursing/midwifery practice.

2NURSING RESEARCH APPRAISALThe nursing and midwifery staffs play an important role to act as mediator forcommunication between the practitioner and the patients (Rosen et al. 2015). The practitionerprovides the instruction for a treatment or care, which the nurses carry forward to achieveimproved health outcome. The nurses and midwives occupationally spend more time withpatients, or in this case, with the parents of infants. This provides a solid platform to developtrust with the child’s parents and help them understand the importance of vaccination. Thestudy will help nurses and midwives in Singapore will able to communicate with the parentsand teach about the importance of vaccination from an early stage and inhibit any futurediseases progression. Question 3: Ethics(a)What were the possible risks of participating in the study?The possible risk factor, which was evident in the paper, was the reluctance from theparticipants (Klabunde et al. 2013). Some of the participants pointed out that at times theywould make changes in their kid’s vaccination schedule. They said they could choose to splitor delay the vaccinations since they had concerns related to some effects of vaccination.These effects may be on the growth of their children, vaccine-related issues, religious beliefsas well as negative past experiences. Some had concerns with the vaccines saying it couldcause fever or dangerous allergic reactions and also the possible delay in the child’sdevelopment.(b)Were these risks clearly identified by the authors?Yes / No(c)If risks were identified by the authors, how did they propose to minimise risk?

3NURSING RESEARCH APPRAISALThe addressed the issue or previous negative vaccination experiment, reluctance by reaching outto the parents and providing assurance that their privacy would do be jeopardized (Shiono et al.2014). In order to manage the pain or crying and other outcomes that may not be pleasing, anumber of parents used different methods to counter such incidences. During the wholevaccination process, some parents employed distraction techniques such as phones, offeringsweets and cakes or even playing videos and once done some parents would breastfeed theirchildren in order to calm them. Other parents went further ahead by rescheduling their workinvolvements in order to stay at home to take care of their kids.(d)Did the authors state that they had approval from an ethics committee to undertake the study?Yes / No(e)How did the authors obtain informed consent from participants?The authors documented written consents from all the participants by engaging in interpersonalcommunication (Lewis 2015). The participants were ensured on the maintenance of privacyconcerning the participation of the parents and their opinions will not be revealed. (f)Did you identify and potential risks associated with the study that were not identified by theauthors and if so, what were they? YesThe researchers failed to contemplate the situation where the parents who were not of Englishspeaking background, would not be able to clearly understand the implications of vaccination.Additionally, the authors did not contemplate that not all participants will be ready to showenthusiasm.

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