Nursing Assignment | Research Methods for Nursing

Research Methods for Nursing
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................................................3
Main body ............................................................................................................................................3
1. Literature review ........................................................................................................................3
2. Research topic, phenomenon of interest and questions or hypothesis.........................................4
3. Research methods .......................................................................................................................4
4. Data collection methods...............................................................................................................5
5. Data analysis ...............................................................................................................................6
6. Findings ......................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
In the present era, problem in relation to obesity are increasing with the very high pace. Due
to the unbalanced diet and daily activities problems among the teenagers in relation to obese are
increasing with the very high pace. In this regard, the present report will discuss the extent to which
school nurses have made contribution in preventing the problem of obesity which are facing by the
teenagers.
MAIN BODY
1. Literature review Text: It may be defined as a process in which scholar critically evaluates the findings that
are presented by the other researchers in their articles, books, journals etc. (Elo and et.al.,
2014). This in turn provides in-depth knowledge to the researcher about the research issue
or topic.
 Paper: In the research paper, by making evaluation of the secondary sources scholars
presented that increasing problem of obesity among adolescents has been increased
dramatically by 34%. Along with this, Bean and et.al., stated in their study that students
who lie between the age of 12 to 19 are majorly suffering from the problem of obese.
Besides this, due to the problem of obesity teenagers prone of several other diseases like
diabetes, insulin resistance, metabolic resistance, blood pressure etc. Along with this, by
evaluating the several articles scholar found that in the present time high level of changes
take place in the lifestyle of people.
Now, adults and youngsters prevent to gain more weight and places emphasis on living a
healthy life. In the literature review scholars also depicted the findings of Ogden and et.al., that if
school nurses have desired level of skills and abilities then they are able to control the problem in
relation to obese to the large extent. Hence, authors presented that nurse intervention has placed
positive impact on the habits of teenagers in relation to eating oily foods, soft drinks etc. Now, large
number of students follow dietary chart which is prepared by school nurse for preventing the
problem of obesity facing by teenagers.
 Critique: Literature review which had conducted by the scholars are highly effectual.
Moreover, in this, researcher has evaluated the findings of different scholars of several years
approximately 8 years. However, on the critical note, it has been stated that themes which
are prepared by the scholar are not directly addressed the aims and objectives of research.
This is turn closely affects the accuracy of the secondary data investigation conducted by the
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