Introduction
The Application Exercises are opportunities for you to apply what you are learning to a published research report. You will not need to examine the entire article, but you will focus on the part that you are learning this week. The best way to become a good consumer of research is to become accustomed to reading research reports
Assignment Guidelines
Reading
Read the following article and answer the questions below in one sentence each or a simple paragraph.
Anderson, C. and Gill, M. (2014). Childbirth related fears and psychological birth trauma in younger and older age adolescents. Applied Nursing Research, 27, 242–248.
The article is from the Applied Nursing Research Journal. This journal publishes in a very clear format that is especially nice for beginning consumers of research, so you should find this article fairly easy to understand.
This is not meant to be a thorough review of the article, but only an exercise in reading with a purpose.
Questions
Respond to the following questions. The questions are about the topics of this week’s lessons, so it will give you some experience in applying what you are learning. Limit your responses to one or two sentences per question, and number your responses to correspond to the question numbers.
What is the problem the researchers are hoping to solve? (one sentence)
Is the problem clearly articulated? As a question or as a statement?
Does their research question have all the PICO elements? If not, what is missing?
What are the variables within this study?
