Article Analysis Assignment: Healthcare Research and Statistics

This assignment analyzes three research articles focusing on healthcare topics. The first article examines nursing students' experiences before and after clinical practice, identifying independent and dependent variables such as clinical practice and student perception. The second article investigates patients' value of nutritional therapy in type-2 diabetes, exploring variables like dietary adherence and dietary intake. The third article assesses breast cancer awareness among females, with variables including health literacy and breast cancer awareness. The analysis covers the population of interest, sampling methods, and examples of descriptive and inferential statistics used in each study. The assignment provides a comprehensive overview of the research methodologies and findings presented in the selected articles, highlighting key statistical data and study outcomes.

Article Analysis 1
Article
Citation
and
Permalink
(APA
format)
Article 1
Solvik, E., & Struksnes, S. (2018). Training
Nursing Skills: A Quantitative Study
of Nursing Students’ Experiences
before and after Clinical
Practice. Nursing research and
practice, 2018. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/8984028
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/nrp/
2018/8984028/
Article 2
Pinto, E., Braz, N., Nascimento, T., & Gomes,
E. (2017). Do patients value nutritional
therapy? A quantitative study in type-2
diabetes patients. International Journal
of Diabetes and Clinical
Research, 4(2), 1-6. DOI:
10.23937/2377-3634/1410079
https://clinmedjournals.org/articles/ijdcr/
international-journal-of-diabetes-and-
clinical-research-ijdcr-4-079.pdf
Article 3
Masood, I., Saleem, A., Hassan, A.,
Sadeeqa, S., & Akbar, J. (2016).
A quantitative study to assess
breast cancer awareness among
females in Bahawalpur Pakistan.
Cogent Medicine, 3(1),
1236479. DOI:
10.1080/2331205X.2016.123647
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Point Description Description Description
Broad
Topic
Area/Title
Training Nursing Skills: A Quantitative Study
of Nursing Students’ Experiences before and
after Clinical Practice
Do Patients Value Nutritional Therapy? A
Quantitative Study in Type2 Diabetes Patients
A quantitative study to assess breast
cancer awareness among females in
Bahawalpur Pakistan
Identify
Independe
nt and
Dependent
Variables
and Type
Independent Variable: Clinical practice
Dependent Variable: Student’s perception
Questionnaire coded with numbers
Independent: Dietary Adherence in Diabetes
Dependent: Dietary Intake
Semi-structure Interview
Independent Variable: Health Literacy
Dependent Variable: Breast Cancer
Awareness
Structured Interview
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of Data for
the
Variables
Population
of Interest
for the
Study
Nursing Students Patients with type-2 diabetes Females aged 18 or above and living in
Bahawalpur
Sample 160 nursing Students 62 diabetic patients 462 respondents
Sampling
Method
Convenience sampling Non-random sampling Convenient, non-probability sampling
technique
Descriptive
Statistics
(Mean,
Median,
Mode;
Standard
Deviation)
Identify
examples of
descriptive
statistics in
the article.
Perceptions of all respondents immediately
after the training session-
Before the training session I was well prepared
by reading the PCPN: n (%)= 96%, Mean 3.36
and Standard Deviation: 1.181
Patients show a poor dietary intake and we
found a prevalence of 36% (n = 22) of
overweight patients and 53% (n = 33) of obese
patients.
81.6% of the respondents reported that
they had no knowledge on how to
perform breast self-examination and
41.4% of the total sample considered it as
rare disease.
Inferential 87% students with work experience from Value placed in dietary intake as a treatment for The females had very poor knowledge of
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Statistics
Identify
examples of
inferential
statistics in
the article.
healthcare were significantly more satisfied
with their preparation for practice than those
without any experience.
the disease is high, but patients seem to have a
trouble in complying with the recommendations
and to sustain the compliance they achieved.
breast cancer, with low awareness levels.
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