Chapter 6

Question 1

Literature review

Answer 1

A written summary of the state of evidence on a research problem. It is useful for consumers of nursing research to acquire skills for reading, appraising, and preparing written evidence summaries.

Question 2

Purpose of literature reviews

Answer 2

To summarize evidence on a topic- to sum up what is known and what is not known

Question 3

If you are preparing a literature review, you should rely mostly on what?

Answer 3

Primary sources

Question 4

Primary sources

Answer 4

Descriptions of studies written by researchers who conducted them

Question 5

Secondary sources

Answer 5

Descriptions of studies prepared by someone else

Question 6

Literature reviews are what kind of source?

Answer 6

Secondary

Question 7

3 approaches for developing a search strategy

Answer 7

Bibliographic databases
Ancestry approach (footnote chasing)
Descendancy approach

Question 8

Bibliographic databases

Answer 8

Accessed by computer

Question 9

Keyword

Answer 9

A word or phrase that captures key concepts in your review question

Question 10

For quantitative studies, the keywords are usually…

Answer 10

Independent or dependent variables and perhaps the population

Question 11

For qualitative studies, the keywords are…

Answer 11

The central phenomenon and the population

Question 12

3 widely used Boolean operators

Answer 12

AND, OR, NOT (in all caps)

Question 13

Truncation symbols

Answer 13

*

Question 14

One way to force a text word search is…

Answer 14

Use “ “ around a phrase to retrieve citations in which the exact phrase appears in the text fields.

Question 15

CINAHL

Answer 15

Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature

Question 16

MEDLINE

Answer 16

Medical Literature On-Line

Question 17

What is CINAHL database?

Answer 17

An important electronic database for nurses. It provides info for locating references and abstracts for most citations.

Question 18

CINAHL source indicates…

Answer 18

Name of the journal
Year of publication
Volume
Issue
Page numbers

Question 19

What is the MEDLINE database?

Answer 19

Developed by US National Library of a medicine. Premier source for bibliographic coverage of the biomedical literature. Can be accessed for free on the Internet at the PubMed website.

Question 20

PubMed website

Answer 20

A lifelong resource, regardless of your institutions access to bibliographic databases

Question 21

MEDLINE uses a controlled vocabulary called… and for what?

Answer 21

MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)
To code and index articles

Question 22

Google Scholar

Answer 22

Hey bibliographic search engine that was launched in 2004. Accessible for free on the Internet

Question 23

It is risky to depend on…

Answer 23

Google Scholar

Question 24

Substantive themes

Answer 24

What is the pattern of evidence?

Question 25

Methodologies themes

Answer 25

What methods have been used to address the question?

Question 26

Generalizability/transferability themes

Answer 26

To what population does the evidence apply?

Question 27

What theme is usually the greatest interest?

Answer 27

Substantive

Question 28

Major steps in preparing a written research review include…

Answer 28

Formulating a question Devising a search strategy Searching and retrieving relevant sources Abstracting and encoding information Apprasing studies Analyzing and integrating the information Preparing a written synthesis

Question 29

Literature reviews should rely mostly on what source material?

Answer 29

Primary

Question 30

Strategies for finding studies on a topic include…

Answer 30

Bibliographic databases, and ancestry approach and the descendancy approach

Question 31

The analysis of information from a literature search essentially involves…

Answer 31

The identification of important themes- regularities and patterns and the information

Question 32

The reviewers role is to point out…

Answer 32

What has been studied How adequate and dependable the studies are What gaps exist in the body of research

Question 33

The four levels of measurement

Answer 33

Nominal Ordinal Interval Ratio

Question 34

Descriptive statistics are used to…

Answer 34

Summarize and describe quantitative data

Question 35

Symmetric skewed

Answer 35

One tail longer than the other or one peak

Question 36

Normal distribution

Answer 36

Bell-shaped curve