Chamberlain College of Nursing NR439: Evidence-Based Practice Week 6: Reading Research Literature Worksheet

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(2013) also state that mixed methods give a voice to study participants and ensure that study findings are grounded in participants’ experiences. The quantitative method that was performed in the st... udy involved data collection and analysis that was taken from the subject’s completion of the DT and the PL (O’Connor et al., 2017). The qualitative method included the consultations between the health care professionals and the subjects after the quantitative data was gathered and analyzed from the DT and the PL (O’Connor et al., 2017). It was shown that by using the DT and PL that patient’s “opened-up” about more issues and concerns about their cancer and asked questions that they might have been reluctant to ask (O’Connor et al., 2017). One research tool that is used in the study is the Distress Thermometer (DT). A DT is “a self- reported distress scale that the patient’s use to determine their level of distress” (Cutillo, O’Hea, Person, Lessard, Harralson, & Boudreaux, 2017, p.329). O’Connor et al., (2017) state that the DT is scored from 0 (no distress) to 10 (high distress). The subjects score their level of distress that they are feeling, and the health care workers collect and analyze the data (O’Connor et al., 2017). Another tool that is used in the study is a Problem List (PL) (Cutillo et al., 2017). The PL is a check-off list that lists practical, physical, mental and social problems that the patient is encountering (Cutillo et al., 2017). The PL accompanies the DT so that more qualitative data can be identified and the correct intervention/s can be implemented by the health care workers (O’Connor et al., 2017). Sample: Using information from the required article and your own words, summarize the population (sample) for the study; include key characteristics, sample size, sampling technique. In this study, the population of interest was women with gynecologic cancer in the clinical setting of West Australia public women’s and newborns’ tertiary teaching hospital, King Edward Memorial Hospital (O’Connor et al., 2017). The samples that were chosen from the population consisted of sixty-two women with gynecologic cancer (O’Connor et al., 2017). The characteristics of the samples that were chosen were all over 18 years or older, they had gynecologic cancer, and they were able to comprehend and fill the DT and PL forms out (O’Connor et al., 2017). The age range was from 25-94 years old, and the median age was 58 years old (O’Connor et al., 2017). [Show More]

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