Critical Appraisal Tool for Quantitative Studies
| Article Title (place the full citation in the reference list) | Purpose and primary question
| Primary study aim (should inform study purpose) | Secondary study aim(s) | Study Design (all are quantitative, but each has other design descriptors: prospective vs. retrospective, RCT vs. cohort vs. cross-sectional descriptive, etc.) | Study sample (sampling techniques, sample size, sample characteristics) | Variables that are measured in the study (a semicolon should separate variables) | Statistical analysis used to address primary study aim | Most relevant results of the survey (2-sentences, should address primary study aim) | Do study limitations make you feel as if these results may not be valid/reliable and, therefore, not appropriate to incorporate in caring for patients/families? Why or why not? (2 sentences) | ||||||||||
| 1. Chronic kidney disease (Hill & Hobbs,2016)
| What are the effects, symptoms, and prevention of kidney disease | Increase awareness of that management | To determine potential predictors of CKD | Developing a questionnaire. Discriminant validation was performed. Standard multiple regression analysis was performed to identify predictors.
| Quota sampling. Is non-probability sampling techniques It has the same proportion of individuals as the entire population | Measuring the urinary, albumin measuring serum creatinine amount to determine the GFR | The numerical data was reflected by Epidemiology collaboration equation | CKD affects around 10% of the adult in the world population. The origin of chronic renal disease is glomerulonephritis | I feel the report did not consider the changes in serum creatinine clearance within two days after radiocontrast exposure that cannot be reliable. | ||||||||||
| 2. radiocontrast-induced Nephropathy (Mehran 2019)
| The cause of radiocontrast induced nephropathy and how it is related to renal diseases | Aims are the evaluation of CIN in diabetes patient | To make a profile of patients at highest risk of developing CIN | There were only randomized trials of intertrial heterogeneity | Baseline samples were obtained to obtain baseline serum creatinine | The measuring methods were N-acetylcysteine; sodium bicarbonate | Data analysis and direct participation in research and observed as a quantitive study | None of the patients developed contrast-induced nephropathy characterized as o.5mg\dl increase with a percentage of baseline creatinine. | The report did not consider the changes in serum creatinine clearance within two days after radiocontrast exposure | ||||||||||
| 3.improving clinical nurses’ development of supervision skills through actual learning approach (Cutcliffe & Brugha 2018)
| What was a need to enhance the effectiveness of in-service training of nursing | To investigate actions as an implementation method on a large scale project. | To collect data on the nursing procedure and guiding student communication skills | The prospective ethnographic approach was used in the study. | Sampling interviews participant was conducted. | Questionnaire and interviews were conducted | Central concepts from learning guided descriptive analysis and statistical package | The participant preferred improved clinical supervision and supported their learning. The participant was also not satisfied with clinical supervisions | They did not provide adequate information about the actual experiences in clinical knowledge | ||||||||||
| 4. Mental Health & Psychiatric Care in Adults (McManus 2016)
| Is the study want to demonstrate psychological distress in patients | To investigate whether brain health and psychogeriatric treatment for adult patient is effective than care. | To find out the stigmatization of psychiatric. | It was a qualitative designed with cross-sectional studies | Randomized | Adults with mental severe healthy living with parents were questioned, screened. | Consideration of perspectives of adults and were interviews. | All those stressors adults can be affected in isolation. Untreated depression in adults can lead to heart diseases | The cost of care is among the frequently cited limitation to mental health care. Primary responsibility is a critical condition. | ||||||||||
| 5.acute coronary syndrome treatment (Farquharson 2017)
| Does the proposed intervention improve cardiac function | To identify any precipitation and management of a patient with ACS | To prevent ischemia, myocardial damage and complication | Experimental design of quantitative research | Randomized and received prasugrel and clopidogrel 10mg for people with more than 75 years and 5 mg for less than 75 years | Diagnosis for cardiac troponin level. Hospitalized for the first 24 hours of the onset of signs | ANOVA comparison of means | Ten percent per year of recurrent ACS for men died compared to 13 percent for a woman. Those whose weight cohort of the patient who did not receive coronary revascularization did not differ for men or women. | The patients should be hospitalized to assed daily clinical practice according to the syndrome. | ||||||||||
| 6. intervention polycystic ovarian syndrome for adults’ girls (Hajivandi & Ekramzadeh 2018)
| What are cysts? Does polycystic affect eating behavior | To explain the affectability of promoting eating behavior of girls with PCOS | To understand what is POCOS in adult girls and how it affects eating behavior. | To design a primary intervention program based on extracted data from the qualitative phase and review | The sequential design which involved semi-structured individual in-depth interviews. Descriptive and analytic statistics | Attitude, subjective norms and eating practice | Purposeful sampling method. Adults girls were chosen according to Age, education, marital status, and job. | Changing eating behavior prevents related PCOS disease. Obesity aggravates issues of a syndrome | It is necessary to conduct fundamental cultural sensitivity. One method is insufficient for revealing the research subject. | ||||||||||
References
Caroff, D. A., Bittermann, T., Leonard, C. E., Gibson, G. A., & Myers, J. S. (2015). A medical resident–pharmacist collaboration improves the rate of medication reconciliation verification at discharge. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 41(10), 457-461.
Cutcliffe, J. R., Sloan, G., & Bashaw, M. (2018). A systematic review of clinical supervision evaluation studies in nursing. International journal of mental health nursing, 27(5), 1344-1363.
Farquharson, B., Johnston, M., Smith, K., Williams, B., Treweek, S., Dombrowski, S. U., … & Grindle, M. (2017). Reducing patient delay in Acute Coronary Syndrome (RAPiD): research protocol for a web‐based randomized controlled trial examining the effect of a behavior change intervention. Journal of advanced nursing, 73(5), 1220-1234
Hajivandi, L., Noroozi, M., Mostafavi, F., & Ekramzadeh, M. (2018). A comprehensive interventional program for promoting eating behaviors in adolescent girls with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS): protocol for a mixed-methods study. Reproductive health, 15(1), 197.
Hill, N. R., Fatoba, S. T., Oke, J. L., Hirst, J. A., O’Callaghan, C. A., Lasserson, D. S., & Hobbs, F. R. (2016). The global prevalence of chronic kidney disease–a systematic review and meta-analysis. PloS one, 11(7).
McManus, S., Bebbington, P., Jenkins, R., & Brugha, T. (2016). Mental health and wellbeing in England: Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2014. A survey carried out for NHS Digital by NatCen Social Research and the Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester.
Mehran, R., & Ashby, D. T. (2019). Radiocontrast-induced acute renal failure: allocations and outcomes. Reviews in cardiovascular medicine, 2(S1), 9-13.