Use a title page for every assignment
Only use articles/journals from CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsychINFO, ERIC, and HaPI….Please is full text nursing research articles.
**** Use research articles published within the last 7 years.
STRICT APA FORMAT!
THREE COMPONENTS OF THIS ASSIGNMENT:
**PART 1.) For this assignment, please retrieve and review THREE published research articles (With at least one quantitative and one qualitative study) related to the Evidence-Based Research Clinical Topic: Polypharmacy in the Elderly. (Use one of the Library Data bases such as CINAHL or Medline…)
Use research articles published within the last 7 years. Do not use textbooks, opinion articles, commentaries, case studies, or literature review articles.
Provide a SEPARATE ABSTRACT for each of the THREE Research Studies you selected. Include for each study:
1. Reference as below
2. Background/purpose/research question:
3. Theory (if included; if not included, say so!)
4. Variables of the Study (Independent/Predictor and Dependent/Outcome Variables)–Not applicable if a qualitative study.
5. Methods: Name a specific research design e.g. an experimental, quasi-experimental, descriptive, correlational–as examples of quantitative designs or grounded theory, ethnography, phenomenological as examples of a qualitative study.
6. Sample/participants (sample/participant description and sample/participant size)
7. Results
8. Conclusion
9. Implications
The research article must be referenced in strict accordance with APA format.
• Author(s), Date, Title of Article. Journal, Volume #, Issue #, Page Numbers.
Note: Please follow APA format closely. Remember that the titles of articles and books are lower cased except for the first word or after a colon (:). Also remember that Journal names are capitalized and italicized and that book titles are also italicized.
**PART 2) Discussion of the Differences Between Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Please provide a discussion/explanation to the 7 following essay questions with references included in your answer and with strict APA format:
1. How does a research problem/question guide the determination to conduct a quantitative versus a qualitative research study?
2. Discuss the value of using a conceptual framework or theory (grand or mid-range) to guide a quantitative research study. Address the debate of the appropriateness of using of a conceptual framework or theory to guide a qualitative research study.
3. What specific types of research designs are used in quantitative research? What specific types of designs are used in qualitative research?
4. What are differences in determining sample size between quantitative and qualitative research studies?
5. Discuss the difference in methods of data analysis for quantitative research versus qualitative research studies.
6. Discuss methods of insuring scientific rigor in quantitative research studies versus qualitative research studies.
7. Discuss the difference in generalizability of quantitative versus qualitative research.
**PART 3.) Research Critique either ONE Quantitative Or ONE Qualitative Research Study from the 3 research studies related to your group’s Evidence-based Project.
DIRECTIONS FOR THE RESEARCH CRITIQUE:
Use the specific critique guidelines presented in Polit and Beck (2016) for quantitative or qualitative studies found on pages 102-109.
1. Please provide the headers and the questions identified in Polit and Beck so that it is easy to follow in grading your paper. (I will upload)
2. Answer each critique question, section by section.
3. Provide specific information from the article itself as you discuss and critique these studies so that I can understand the details from the study.
4. Do not just answer “Yes” or “No” to the question but make critical comments about the research components of each study..(I will upload critique components)
5. In each section of the critique, you are to identify the strengths and weaknesses, presenting your own rationale (positive and negative critique comments) about the value of this research.
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