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HSH725 : Research Literacy for Health Practice

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The purpose of the report is to provide insights about the research literacy for health practice. The report presents the analysis on Aboriginal Australians who are facing greater health disparity as compared to the non-indigenous Australians. As per the facts one of the preventable cause of death and ill health of people is the use of tobacco smoking. It is been identified that higher rate of smoking is resulting in cancer, coronary heart disease and other heath diseases between the Aboriginal Australians. As per the study and research of national statistics on smoking, more than 39 percent of Aboriginal Australians are those people who are above age of 15 years. Research has founded that there is a reduction in the number of people who are smoking and proportion of people who have not smoked yet has been increased.

HSH725 : Research Literacy for Health Practice

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0Running head: RESEARCH LITERACY FOR HEALTH PRACTICEResearch literacy for health practiceName of the student:Name of the University:Author’s note
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1RESEARCH LITERACY FOR HEALTH PRACTICEIntroduction:Aboriginal Australians experience great health disparity compared to non-indigenousAustralians and tobacco smoking is the most preventable cause of ill health and death amongthem. High rate of smoking has increased the risk of coronary heart disease, cancer and otherheart disease in aboriginal Australians. According to the 2014-15 National Statistics onIndigenous smoking, about 39% Aboriginal people above 15 years are daily smokers(Department of Health | Tackling Indigenous Smoking (TIS) - National Statistics, 2017).Although there is a decline in the number of the people smoking, however there is increase in theproportion of people who have never smoked. Considering the deleterious effect of smoking onhealth and life expectancy gaps of aboriginal people, there is a need to find preventive strategiesto reduce the smoking rate. Ober and Roche (1997) explored the potential of harm reductionprinciple to address smoking prevalence among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. The studygave an overview about the characteristics of smoking, motivator for uptake of smoking, theaboriginal perspective on smoking and the application of harm reduction approaches to preventsmoking. The purpose of this report is to critically appraise the research paper and evaluatewhether the intervention proposed should be funded or not. The efficacy of the intervention isunderstood from review of other relevant research work and the use of CASP tool for appraisalof article further denotes the strength and weakness of the intervention for public health. Search strategy:Ober and Roche (1997) proposed harm reduction approach to prevent smoking amongaboriginal Australians. To further understand the effectiveness of harm reduction approach inpreventing smoking, reviewing current research work related to the topic is necessary. This
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2RESEARCH LITERACY FOR HEALTH PRACTICEwould help to determine whether this intervention can be applied for the target group or not. Themain criteria for searching the articles were that it should not be more than 10 years old and theyshould cover the topic of harm reduction approach for preventing smoking. Another inclusioncriterion was that all research articles should be in English language. The articles were mainlysearched from the databases like Medline, CINAHL, PubMed, Cochrane library and GoggleScholar. The key search terms used for the literature search included ‘Harm reduction principlefor aboriginal people’, ‘use of harm reduction principle for smoking prevention, ‘impact of harmreduction approach on reducing smoking rate’ and ‘efficacy of harm reduction approach forreducing smoking rate in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’. Population based studieswhich used health promotion approach as a health promotion method were also include forliterature review.Literature searchAuthor and dateAim of the studyKey findingsKozlowski (2015)The research used harm-reduction approach toanalyse the prospects ofnicotine reeducating strategyin eliminating use ofcigaretteThe research gave theindication that althoughcomplexity in tobacco industrymay hijack the harm reductionapproach, however usingappropriate resources andpolicy related changes canincrease the benefits of nicotinemaintaining harm reductionstrategiesChamberlain et al. 2017The aim was to synthesizeevidence regarding reducingtobacco consumption amongindigenous peopleLimited indigenous specificevidence for smokingprevention and continuation ofeffective intervention wasurgently neededGould et al. (2016)It used behavioral changewheel and application of theharm reduction approach tosupport indigenous womento quit smokingThe review of harm reductionand quitting strategies inindigenous population revealedthat educational and socialmarketing approach can
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3RESEARCH LITERACY FOR HEALTH PRACTICEpromote use of nicotinereduction therapy in indigenouswomen. Systematic barrier toevidence bases cessationmethods must also be addressedMinichiello et al. (2016)The aim was to identifyeffective strategies to reducecommercial tobacco use inindigenous communitiesgloballyThe systematic review revealedthat myriads of activities wereimplemented to reduce harm oftobacco use in indigenouspeople however comprehensiveand tailored intervention wasneeded to change initiation,consumption and smoking rateFraser et al. (2015)Assessment of harmreduction approach ofsmoking using e-cigarettesfor long-term replacementsfor smoking and improvingquitting ratesThe assessment of real worldeffectiveness of harm reductionintervention showed thatanticipated effects were lowand to increase the efficacy,people who are using theproduct must be targeted. Theresearch outcome will help todetermine whether harmreduction strategies canaccelerate of the slow rate ofdecline in smoking prevalenceor notCritical appraisal:The quality of research study is evaluated by means of the CASP systematic reviewchecklist and the main results from the critical appraisal are as follows:Screening question:1.Addressing clear focused questionWhile reviewing a research paper, the significance of the study is understood from clearstatement regarding research question. A clear research questions is one, which clearly specified
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