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¶ … clarity of purpose, research questions or hypothesis were solid and well researched. The strength of the literature review was its focus upon multidisciplinary studies. Unfortunately, it suffered from a lack of complete. The strength of the sampling regime was its focus. Its weakness was the small size of the statistical sample. The wait control feature enhanced ethical considerations. The random assignment of patients enhanced the baseline measurement instruments. Reliability and validity of the measurement instruments in the study in the opinion of this author compromises the application of the data to a wider setting, although it did help focus. The data collection process was strong due to its use of the wait control group. Unfortunately, this reduced the number of participants in the Breast Cancer Education Intervention (BCEI) study
The threats to external and internal validity surround the small population size (256) patients. This tended in this author's opinion to negate much of the randomness of the studies due to simple probability. In addition, this compromises to some extent the BCEI studies findings and conclusions which would have been much more enhanced by a larger sample study population
The findings cam be made widely general across the nursing spectrum, but could be limited to those patients covered by adequate medical insurance. The applicability of findings to practice in nursing...
While the level of evidence, its strength, quality and consistency are good, it does not analyze the out of pocket costs for patients. Extensive co-pays and other costs might actually decrease overall mental quality of life (QOL) if the patient is worried too much about their finances. If this is the case, then the overall BCEI study is weakened considerably.
Article Summary
According to the authors, the BCEI was an effective intervention in improving
the QOL during the first year of breast cancer survivorship with durable treatment effects were durable over time. To examine the effectiveness of their intervention on (QOL) in breast cancer survivors, they set up a randomized controlled trial in an academic center that collaborated with a southeastern United States cancer center. They sampled 256 breast cancer survivors. The women were randomly assigned to the experimental or wait control groups and the BCE study was delivered in three face-to-face sessions with five monthly follow-up sessions (three by phone and two in person). The control group received four monthly attention control telephone calls. The BCEI did not receive these until month 6. Data was collected at the baseline, three and six months after the BCEI for the experimental group and one month after the BCEI (at month 7) for…
Works Cited
Meneses, Karen Dow, McNees, Patrick, Loerzel, Victoria W., Su, Xiaogang, & Zhang,
Ying & Hassey, Lauren. (2007). Transition from treatment to survivorship: effects of a psychoeducational intervention. Oncology Nursing Forum, 34(5), 1007-1016.
(Niglas, 2004) Stated to be research questions that should guide the empirical study design are those as follows: (1) How have quantitative and qualitative elements been related? What type of combined designs have been sued? What is the level of integration between qualitative and quantitative aspects of studies? (2) Why have the authors chosen to prefer multimethod or mixed design to monomethod approach? Do they offer a rationale for their choice? What
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Complexities and Simplicities of Research Whether an academic or a working professional, research is often the primary objective of one's daily activity. Research not only imparts knowledge, but also allows one to understand how things work better, whether complex or simple, and present this information to bosses, professors, etc. thereby allowing these individuals to also broaden their knowledge and move the world forward. Research is thus very important. This paper
The third position means stepping outside the situation and seeing issues from the point-of-view of a third party. NLP reminds us that people receive information in various sensory channels: the visual, the auditory, the kinaesthetic (perception of movement of effort) and the digital mathematical or reasoned thinking (Taylor, 2000). The idea being that people use all of these modes, but may have a preferred mode. Ethnographic approach: this takes its
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healthcare environment, Palese et al. (2011) argue there is no effective data to support that patients' satisfaction is correlated with a nursing care. Moreover, there is evidence revealing uncertainty in the nursing care environment since there is lack of identification of caring consequences. While the patient's satisfaction has been linked with nurses' caring behaviors, however, there is no empirical evidence to support "the effect of caring on patient's satisfaction."