CH4. Reading and Critiquing Research Articles Flashcards
Which electronic database is widely recognized as the premier source for bibliographic coverage of the biomedical literature?
CINAHL
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
ProQuest
MEDLINE
MEDLINE
The RN is doing a basic search of articles on nurses’ stress in the ICU. In conducting a subject search in an electronic database, what should the nurse type to initiate the search?
An author’s name
Restrictions to the search
A topic or keyword
A mapping procedure
A topic or keyword
In an electronic literature search, what is the researcher doing when she does not know the precise keywords for retrieving information on a topic?
Mapping
Searching
Restricting focus
Copying
Mapping
What is a primary source for a research literature review?
A description of a study written by researchers who did the study
A summary of relevant research on the topic of interest
A thesaurus that directs readers to subject headings germane to the topic
Any journal article on a topic of interest
A description of a study written by researchers who did the study
There are several strategies for finding studies on a topic. What is the ancestry approach?
Search for articles that summarize prior research.
Read the accompanying abstract to determine whether the article is pertinent to the topic.
Tracking down earlier studies cited in a reference list of a report.
Using a pivotal study to search forward to subsequent studies that cited it.
Tracking down earlier studies cited in a reference list of a report.
There are several strategies for finding studies on a topic. What is the descendancy approach?
Search for articles that summarize prior research.
Read the accompanying abstract to determine whether the article is pertinent to the topic.
Track down earlier studies cited in a reference list of a report.
Use a pivotal study to search forward to subsequent studies that cited it.
Use a pivotal study to search forward to subsequent studies that cited it.
What is a secondary source for a research literature review?
A description of a study written by researchers who did the study
A summary of relevant research on the topic of interest
A thesaurus that directs readers to subject headings germane to the topic
A description of the study by an individual unconnected with it
A description of the study by an individual unconnected with it
The nurse is conducting a literature review. Which will not assist the nurse when conducting a literature review?
A. One major purpose of a literature review is to learn what research has already been done in the area.
B. A text word search allows searchers to look for specific words in all test fields of records in the electronic database.’
C. The literature review section should conclude with a critical evaluation of knowledge on the problem of interest.
D. Information from anecdotal and opinion articles is usually included in research literature.
Information from anecdotal and opinion articles is usually included in research literature.
There are several major steps in preparing a written research review. What is the first step?
Formulating a question
Devising a search strategy
Conducting a search
Retrieving relevant sources
Formulating a question
When doing a literature review, what type of information will a researcher undertaking a new study find as an undesirable attribute?
Available research findings
Descriptions of an expert’s opinions about the phenomenon
How the variables of interest have been operationally defined in prior studies
What research approaches have been used to study similar problems
Descriptions of an expert’s opinions about the phenomenon
Qualitative researchers have varying opinions about reviewing the literature before doing a new study. What group of researchers is represented when collection of data occurs before reviewing the literature?
Grounded theory researchers
Phenomenologists
Ethnographogists
Grounded theory researchers and
phenomenologist
Grounded theory researchers
Qualitative researchers have varying opinions about reviewing the literature before doing a new study. What group of researchers often undertakes a search for relevant materials at the onset of a study?
Grounded theory researchers
Phenomenologists
Ethnographogists
Grounded theory researchers and phenomenologist
Phenomenologists
Qualitative researchers have varying opinions about reviewing the literature before doing a new study. What group of researchers does a more thorough literature review during data analysis and interpretation so that findings can be compared with previous findings?
Grounded theory researchers
Phenomenologists
Ethnographogists
Grounded theory researchers and phenomenologist
Ethnographers
Matrices are a convenient means of abstracting and organizing information for a literature review. How many dimension arrays are present?
Two
Three
Four
Five
Two
Matrices are a convenient means of abstracting and organizing information for a literature review. When would a reviewer use an evaluation matrix?
Record methodological features of a set of studies.
Record research findings.
Record quality assessment information.
Facilitate thematic analysis of the retrieved information.
Record quality assessment information
