Report on Incorporating Evidence Based Practice in Nursing
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Report on Incorporating Evidence Based Practice in Nursing
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Running head: NURSING RESEARCH Prevalence of Depression and Detoriation of QOL among patients undergoing cancer treatment. Name of the Student Name of the University Author Note
1NURSING RESEARCH NGEE ANN POLYTECHNIC School of Health Sciences Diploma of Health Sciences (Nursing) Nursing Research 2 Research Critique (Written report) Name Student No. Tutorial Group Plagiarism Disclaimer I declare that this submission is my own work and that in every case where I have drawn on the work of any other author or source, this is fully and specifically acknowledged in the text of my submission and the works cited in the appended reference list. Student’s Signature: _______________ Marker’s Name:Marker’s Signature: Grade:______________ Date:_________________ A+68-80C+52-55.9 A64-67.9C48-51.9 B+60-63.9D+44-47.9
2NURSING RESEARCH B56-59.9D40-43.9 F< 40 Moderator’s Name:Moderator’s Signature: References: Boswell,C.&Cannon,S.(2011). IntroductiontoNursingResearch: IncorporatingEvidenceBasedPractice.(2nded.).USA:Jonesand Bartlett. Coughlan,M.,Cronin,P.,&Ryan,F.(2007).Step-by-stepguideto critiquing research. Part 1: Quantitative research.British Journal of Nursing, 16, 658-663 Godshall,M.(2010). FastFactsforEvidence-basedpractice: Implementing EBP in anutshell.New York: Springer.
3NURSING RESEARCH NGEE ANN POLYTECHNIC School of Health Sciences Diploma of Health Sciences (Nursing) Nursing Research 2: Research Critique Template Useonly Quantitative studyfor this assignment Author(s):DebaswetaPurkayastha,ChitraVenkateswaran, Kesavankutty Nayar, UG Unnikrishnan Title:Prevalence of Depression in Breast Cancer Patients and it’s Association with their Quality of Life: A Cross-sectional Observational Study Journal:Indian Journal of Palliative Care Year:2017Volume:23Issue: _________Page:268-273 Part 1: Article Information Title Is the title clear, accurate and unambiguous? Yes, the title of the article is almost as per the objective of the study. The only divergence is in the fact that the research ties to link depression and a lowered quality of life associated with the conventional treatmentofcancer(likechemotherapy,radiotherapyandsurgery), insteadofthediseaseitself.Italsodoesnotincludeotherformsof treatment like CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats)CAS9genomeeditingtechnology,andothertherapieslike
4NURSING RESEARCH pharmacotherapyandpsychotherapies(Congetal.,2013;Chisholm- Burns, Wells & Schwinghammer., 2016; Fromm-Reichmann, 2015). Is it clearly related to content and appropriate? Yes, it is related since it shows the incidence of depression among the sample population. It studies the psychological effects of conventional treatment (mentioned above) for breast cancer. Is it of appropriate length? The title seems to be of appropriate length and it identifies the topic clearly. PICO? P: Patients diagnosed with Breast Cancer I: Incidence of depression and change in the quality of life. C: Comparison of the study done by Hassan et al,. (2015) that showed a relation between depression and cancer treatment, and how it negativey affects the patient’s quality of life. O:Apositivecorrelationbetweendepressionandtreatmentofbreast cancer (Chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery, or a combination), and a negative correlation to the quality of life. Abstract Does the abstract offer a clear overview of the study including the research problem, sample, methodology, finding and recommendations?
5NURSING RESEARCH The abstract clearly outlines background and the overview of the study, highlighting the prevalence of breast cancer, and findings of the depression screening among the sample population. It shows a relation between cancer and depression, and its effect on the quality of life of the patients. Samplesize: A sample size of 270 patients (above 18 years) diagnosed with cancer have been selected. Methodology:DepressionwasscreenedusingPatientHealth Questionnaire9andInternationalClassificationofDiseasesResearch Guidelines(10thedition).Qualityoflifeandrelateddomainswere measuredusingWorldHealthOrganizationQualityofLife(WHOQOL- BREF) (Moriarty, Gilbody, McMillan, & Manea, 2015; Su, Ng, Yang, & Lin, 2014). Finding: Poor quality of life and depression is common among patients with breast cancer Recommendations:Improvementinthesensitivityofdepression screeningtests,andimprovesaccesstopsychiatricservices,allowing promptintervention(likepsychosocialprograms)andpsychiatrist referrals if needed. Is it clearly presented and well-organized?
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