Research Critique Paper Article 2022

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The article’s title is “Facilitators and Barriers to Minority Blood Donations” by Raymona
H. Lawrence published on June 2019 by Nursing research Journal. “Minority blood donations
have historically been low in the United States; however, increasing the proportion of minority
blood donations is essential to reducing blood transfusion complications—particularly in African
Americans with sickle cell disease and thalassemia” (Spratling & Lawrence, 2019). The purpose
and nature of the study was to identify the barriers and facilitators to blood donation among the
minority communities.
The article provides an in-depth view of the minority blood donations in the United States
with an extremely valuable level of detail. An inductive approach was applied to evaluate
themes, patterns, differences, and commonalities in the study findings as well as to generate new
knowledge about these minorities blood donation. The method used makes the study feasible as
it satisfactorily reflects other studies of the same topic. The topic is realistic as medical mistrust
is a significant barrier to blood donation among minorities (Frye, Caltabiano, Kessler... & Shaz,
2014). Additionally, the method comprehensively addressed the questions of validity by use of
Criterion-Related validity. The study compared test results with the outcome. LoBiondo-Wood
& Haber (2014) argues that this validity correlates results of assessment with another criterion of
assessment. However, the article does not state the limitations of the method.
The results have been interpreted without bias by use of themes identified from the
provided data insights into the minorities experiences with blood donation (Ham, 2016). These
themes emerged from the evaluation of the narratives and descriptions related to the original
problem. Notably, the article answers the question by providing new factual information, a new
understanding of the blood transfusion phenomenon among minority groups. Moreover, the
reported observations support existing materials on how in particular medical misunderstanding
and mistrust deterred minorities from blood donation.