NURS 6052 Week 5 Discussion: Week 5 Discussion

NURS 6052 Week 5 Discussion: Week 5 Discussion

Introduction

For the Week 5 discussion in NURS 6052, you are asked to find two quantitative research studies that address one issue chosen from a list of issues. This guide will teach you how to find a quantitative research article on a specific topic in a nursing database. Specifically, this guide will discuss how to:

pick relevant keywords
 for your topic and combine them with Boolean operators

identify and combine
 search words to find 
quantitative studies
in the CINAHL Plus with Full Text database NURS 6052 Week 5 Discussion: Week 5 Discussion.

evaluate 
the articles that you find to determine if they actually used the desired research method

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Pick keywords

Searching the Library databases is not the same as doing a Google search. Here are some key differences: NURS 6052 Week 5 Discussion: Week 5 Discussion.

The databases search for 
exactly
 what you enter in the search boxes.

If you enter a whole sentence, you’ll probably get no results.

If you misspell or mistype a word, you’ll probably get no results.

By default, the databases only search for what you enter in the search boxes in the article’s title, citation, abstract, and subject headings. NURS 6052 Week 5 Discussion: Week 5 Discussion,

This can help you get more 
relevant 
results. NURS 6052 Week 5 Discussion: Week 5 Discussion.

If your topic is obscure, or not mentioned in these fields, you may get no results.

To effectively search the Library databases we suggest:

Breaking apart 
your topic into the component parts

For example, if your topic is anxiety in children the main parts are: 
Anxiety
 and 
Children
. NURS 6052 Week 5 Discussion: Week 5 Discussion

Combining 
these main parts with the Boolean Operators, AND, OR, and NOT

AND tells the database to search for both terms in an article:

Anxiety 
AND
 Children

OR tells the database to search for either term, which is especially useful for synonyms:

Children 
OR 
Kids

NOT tells the database to exclude any results that have that term:

Anxiety 
NOT 
Depression

To learn more about finding articles on your topic in the databases, please see our guide:

To learn more about Boolean Operators, please see our guide:

Guide: Keyword Searching: Boolean

Quantitative studies

Quantitative studies
 use numbers and statistics to test their hypotheses.

Some keywords associated with quantitative research studies include:

Clinical trial

Correlational

Data

Laboratory experiment

Meta analysis

Randomized controlled trial NURS 6052 Week 5 Discussion: Week 5 Discussion

Regression

Statistically significant

Survey

 

Since not all quantitative research studies have the word quantitative in the title or abstract, it helps to link together the names of different types of quantitative research studies in your search. Here is an example of a search for 
quantitative research articles
 on 
anxiety in children
 in the 
CINAHL Plus with Full Text database
:

1.
 On the 
Library homepage
, go to the 
Subject Resources 
box.

2.
 Click on 
Select a subject
 and choose: 
Nursing
.

3. 
Scroll down until you see a section called Nursing articles, journals & books.

4. 
Click on 
Nursing databases
 and then click on the link for 
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
 to access the database.

Note:
If you have not already logged in to the Library databases, you will be prompted to log in with your myWalden Portal user name and password. NURS 6052 Week 5 Discussion: Week 5 Discussion

5.
 Once you are in the database, go to the 
first search box
 and enter:

quantitative OR trial OR meta analysis

6. 
In the 
second search box,
 enter your topic:

anxiety

7.
 In the 
third search box,
 enter the rest of your topic, if necessary:

children

Here is what your search boxes should look like: NURS 6052 Week 5 Discussion: Week 5 Discussion

 

8.
 To limit your results to only 
peer-reviewed
 articles, go below the search boxes and click in the box under 
Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals
.

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.

 

9
.
 Then click on the 
Search 
button to run your search.

10. 
As you are looking through your results, you can refer to the 
Evaluate your results section
 to make sure the article you pick is indeed a quantitative research study.

 

If you don’t find what you need in the CINAHL Plus with Full Text database, you can use the same search strategy in our other nursing and health databases: NURS 6052 Week 5 Discussion: Week 5 Discussion

MEDLINE with Full Text

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source

Quiz on quantitative research

Which of the following keywords will 
not
help you find quantitative studies in the Library databases? NURS 6052 Week 5 Discussion: Week 5 Discussion

a.
 Meta analysis

b.
 Data

c.
 Interview

d.
 Trial

 

Quiz answer

Evaluate your results

Unfortunately, just because you entered keywords associated with the research type you are trying to find, that doesn’t guarantee that all of your results will be the desired research type. Once you have your list of results, reflect on the keywords associated with your desired research method. With those keywords in mind, here are a few places you can look to check that you’ve truly found what you wanted:

 

Title:
 Sometimes the research methodology will be stated in the title of the article. For example:

“Considerations for the provision of psychosocial services for families following paediatric burn injury: NURS 6052 Week 5 Discussion: Week 5 Discussion,A quantitative study.”

“Clown intervention to reduce preoperative anxiety in children and parents: A randomized controlled trial.” NURS 6052 Week 5 Discussion: Week 5 Discussion

 

Abstract:
 If the title does not specify what type of research methodology was used, the next place to look is the abstract. The abstract gives you a short summary of the article and will generally include the research methodology.

Here is how you can access an article’s abstract:

1. 
From the list of results, click on the 
title 
of the article.

2.
 Scroll down until you see the 
Abstract 
field.

Note: 
not all articles have an abstract. If the one you picked does not, you’ll need to look at the full text of the article.

 

Article
: If neither the title nor the abstract makes it clear what type of research methodology was used, you’ll need to go to the full text of the article. The sections where you are most likely to find out what type of research methodology was used are  NURS 6052 Week 5 Discussion: Week 5 Discussion the
Introduction
, 
Methodology/Method
, and 
Design
.

Note: 
These sections may have slightly different headings, but will generally be near the beginning of the article. NURS 6052 Week 5 Discussion: Week 5 Discussion

 

To learn more about 
evaluating
 your results, please see our guide:

More information

Best Practices in Quantitative Methods

Provides best practices for conducting quantitative research in the 21st Century.

Health Science Research: A Handbook of Quantitative Methods

This handbook goes over how to conduct quantitative research in the health sciences.

Evidence-Based Practice Research

Quiz answer

Quantitative Quiz Answer:

c
. Interviews

Interviews are a type of qualitative research. Meta analyses, data, and trials are all good keywords for finding quantitative research. NURS 6052 Week 5 Discussion: Week 5 Discussion NURS 6052 Week 5 Discussion: Week 5 Discussion