child with muscular dystrophy?
child with muscular dystrophy?
You will write your Literature Review Section of your EBP Project Proposal. Here is a Review of Literature Example (Word) to use as a model or guide. To conduct your literature review, you begin with the search strategy, gather your resources, then start writing your literature review and gap analysis.
Search Strategy
In the literature review section, you are to identify your search strategy, which can include the following:
the databases and internet sites or search engines used to explore the literature (CINAHL, Medline, Google, Yahoo, etc.)
the search terms you used
the beginning and ending dates of the period covered in this study
the time period when the search was conducted (e.g., Fall 2008)
any special journals hand-searched and any relevant sources used in performing the literature search
Description of Literature or Gaps in the Literature
The literature review section is a review of studies that are related to your phenomenon. It should take up about eight to ten pages, or approximately 3,000 to 4,000 words. The purpose is to tell the reader what is known about your phenomenon and lead the reader to what is not known about your phenomenon (your research problem). You should have sub-headings throughout this section of the paper.
The literature section discusses the relevant research related to your study. Do not discuss each study individually; instead, synthesize the literature based on your literature matrix. You can discuss individual findings of studies (include all eight studies that you described in your literature matrix in Weeks 4 and 9) as appropriate including the statistical findings and study samples. This section needs to tell the reader what is known about your clinical area of interest. You will also summarize your review of the literature and discuss the gaps you have identified.
Assignment Instructions
Your assignment should be:
Eight to ten pages, or approximately 3,000 to 4,000 words, no cover page required, and the page count doesn’t include the references list
Your search strategy
Description of articles (who, population, sample, what was done, statistical findings, limitations, and so on)
Gaps section: the gaps you have identified from your literature search
Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.
Example of A Literature Review : Follow the below example
Week 9 Review of Literature Example
Written by Jennifer Oddy, Entitled: Distress And Coping of Mothers of Children With Muscular Dystrophy
Introduction
The purpose of this literature review is to discuss the current knowledge regarding experiences of mothers who care for their child with muscular dystrophy, their coping mechanisms, and to understand their lived experiences in order to provide better nursing care to these mothers. Not only will the current knowledge be addressed, this literature review will also speak to what is unknown about this phenomenon. The concepts of maternal stress/well-being, adjustment, anxiety, and coping will all be addressed as common themes emerging from the data.
The research question for this study is:
What are the lived experiences of mothers who care for their child with muscular dystrophy?
The search for literature took place in the spring of 2015, which was completed using EBSCOhost to search 17 online databases through the Regis College Library. Google Scholar was also used, which brought up articles from PubMed that have been utilized. Eight peer- reviewed research journal articles were obtained and scrutinized for the purpose of this review of literature and the literature matrix (Appendix B). Search terms included: children, chronic disease, mother, distress, coping, muscular dystrophy, maternal experience, stress, and adjustment. To ensure the most relevant literature was cited, the majority of the articles were from 2007-2013. One article was from 2003, two from 2005, and the remaining five articles were between 2007 and 2013. The older articles were included for the purpose of their significance to the subject matter. However, this gap in literature provides evidence that there is need for further research regarding the lived experiences of mothers who care for their child with muscular dystrophy.
This review of literature will include empirical and theoretical sections, as well as a brief description of how the researcher arrived at this topic of interest. In the empirical literature section, the literature from eight peer-reviewed journals will be synthesized. Individual findings from certain articles will be cited in order to provide details about the experiences of mothers caring for their child with muscular dystrophy. These experiences will then be related to the discipline of psychology, demonstrating the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach. The empirical literature will be concluded with the gap in literature and why there is a need to further investigate this topic. These topics are all used to form the following sub-headings: overview, lifestyle as a contributor to maternal stress and well-being, difficulty adjusting, anxiety directly relates to quality of life, the struggles of coping, maternal stress related to other disciplines, a summary, and the gaps in literature. The purpose of these sub-headings is to organize the empirical literature section.
