CRITIQUE ARTICLE

Critique Article

In this assignment the article that will be critically discussed is a qualitative piece of research by Simons J., Franck L. &Roberson E (2001). Titled: Parent involvement in children's pain care: views of parents and nurses. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 36(4), 591-599.

Abstract

This study looks at the views of parents and nurses about the involvement of parents in the management of their child's pain during the first 48 hours after surgery. In this article, which is a qualitative study the participants were clearly identified as 20 parents and 20 nurses all the parents and nurses approached agreed to participate in the study. The samples of parents were mothers only, as the father although considered for interview was not available. The sample for the study was recruited from parents of children who had surgery at a large urban children's hospital in England and the nurses who provided the most care for the children during the first 48 hours postoperatively. With the sample size being so small it may be debated that the results may be flawed. The phenomenological approach is used in this piece of qualitative research.

Introduction

The title is concise and informative about what the research article is going to be about and clearly shows the approach that is used to conduct the research. In the title it states that it will be discussing the 'views of parents and nurses', about parent involvement in children's pain care. This clearly shows from the title that the article is more than likely going to be a qualitative piece of research as it is talking about people's opinions, beliefs and views not fact (Ogier 1998). The title visibly states what the article is going to be about and when looking at the title it is clear that it will be about the involvement of parents in there children's pain care and the views of parents and nurses on this topic.

The abstract of a piece of research is supposed to be a short comprehensive summary of the study (LoBiondo-Wood and Haber 1994). The abstract included in this research article is very unambiguous and is presented in a way that sums up the article. It clearly outlines the aim of the study and the reasoning behind it. It states the methodology that will be used during the piece of research but it doesn't clearly say how the participants were selected and what sampling techniques were used, it appears after reading on that it is a purposive sample but nowhere in the text does it state this. The abstract states the findings and how they would be interpreted and analysed. It also plainly translates the findings of the piece of research and the differences between the subject groups and their differing views. This abstract also clearly outlines how the article concludes.

Literature Review

Robson (2000) states that the literature reviews should be written in a way that will convince readers that the study is worthwhile. While looking at the literature review in this piece of ...