Evaluation 1: Nursing Research Literature Review Appraisal and Summary

This assignment evaluates a nursing research article titled "Factors Predicting Intention Among Nursing Students To Seek Professional Psychological Help." The assignment begins by extracting key information from the article, including the database used (CINAHL), journal name (Pacific Rim International Journal of Nursing Research), research problem (mental health issues in nursing students), purpose (examining factors influencing help-seeking behavior), population (343 Thai nursing students), intervention (questionnaires), and outcomes (significance of support services). The core of the assignment involves a critical appraisal of the literature review, assessing the quality and currency of sources, relevance of content, and synthesis of information. The student analyzes the number of peer-reviewed references, the age of the sources, and the relevance of the keywords. Finally, the assignment asks for the significance of the research on the student's future practice, along with APA-formatted in-text citation and reference for the article. The student identifies that interventions to promote positive attitudes towards psychological help are useful for nursing students.

Evaluation #1: Literature review appraisal and brief summary
Instructions: Answer the following questions from a nursing research article of your choice.
1. What database did you use? (1/2 mark)
CINAHL Database
2. What is the name of the journal the article was found in?(1/2 mark)
Pacific Rim International Journal of Nursing Research
3. What is the name of the article?(1/2 mark)
“Factors Predicting Intention Among Nursing Students To Seek Professional Psychological Help”
4. What is the problem identified in the study?(1/2 mark)
Nursing students undergo huge amount of mental health problems for which no considerate
help is obtained.
5. What is the identified research purpose?(1/2 mark)
The aim behind this expressive, cross-sectional investigation was to look at factors foreseeing
nursing pupil's goal to look for proficient mental assistance by utilizing the Ajzen's hypothesis of
arranged conduct as a system.
6. What is the population the research study is focused on?(1/2 mark)
The research study is primarily focused on 343 nursing students in Thailand who are eligible for
screening distress psychologically.
7. What is the intervention used? (1/2 mark)
The interventions are questionnaire relating with the demographic data and the help seeking
questionnaire for psychological issues in professional arena. In addition, the stress scale for
depression and anxiety has also been selected.
8. What was the outcome of the research? (1/2 mark)
The discoveries underscore the significance of working intimately with advising administrations
and the callings so as to guarantee nursing understudies' entrance to required help, to build
uplifting mentalities toward the assistance looking for conduct of nursing understudies and their
huge gatherings, and make societies of looking for such assistance across nursing grounds.
9. Critically appraise the literature review completed by the research study:(1 mark for each = 4 )
a) Quality sources (peer-reviewed sources / journal articles, primary sources referenced)
40 references have been used in the literature, out of which around 31 are peer-reviewed which
rounds up to 78% of the references used. In the reference list around 13 references are
outdated with years around 2010-2013 to understand the scenario in earlier stages of
development.
b) Current sources (published within 10 years prior to the research article’s publication)
13/40 or 33% of the references used were beyond 5 year old mark. 27/40 or 68% of the
references used are within 5 year old.
c) Relevant content (content directly related to the study and appropriate authors cited)
The key words that have been mentioned in the abstract are all relevant to the references that
have been cited in the research article. The authors of the journal articles that have been used
as references in relevant places of the literature are all renowned nursing professionals. In

addition, some of them are even medicinal professionals and social workers who are involved in
providing psychological help to nurses.
d) Synthesis of relevant content (studies critically appraised and synthesized, clear concise,
addresses gaps in the literature)
The authors of the research article had gone through every article that has been cited to
understand the scenario of distress among the nurses and the preventive measures that have
been undertaken to reduce them. In addition, there are some 3-4 research articles which
encircle around the same purpose as this article but with a different statistical method for
understanding what was the difference from theirs.
10. Discuss the significance this research will have on your current or future practice. (1 mark)
Nursing resources can be applied by teachers of the consequences of this examination by
building up an intercession explicit to these factors. Intercessions meaning to build uplifting
demeanours toward proficient mental assistance make steady culture in nursing grounds or give
data identified with mental assistance for companion, families, and scholastic teachers will be
useful for expanding nursing understudies' expectations.
11. Write an in-text citation for this article using APA guidelines. (1/2 mark)
(Pumpuang, Seeherunwong & Vonsirimas, 2018)
12. Write a reference for this article using APA guidelines. (1/2 mark)
Pumpuang, W., Seeherunwong, A., & Vongsirimas, N. (2018). Factors Predicting Intention among
Nursing Students to Seek Professional Psychological Help. Pacific Rim International Journal of
Nursing Research, 22(3), 200-211.
/10 (5%)