Research Critique, Part 1

Research Critique, Part 1

This paper is to critique an article on the life of a patient after angioplasty. The purpose of the study was to find the beliefs, attitudes and values that affect the behavior of patients after the angioplasty.

Problem Statement

In 2008, 16 million people in America were affected by coronary heart diseases at an approximate expense of $156 billion. Greater than 650, 000 patients go through a  percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) or stent events yearly. This has been an increase of 324 percent between 1987 to 2002.

The patients that go through these procedures are not provided with effective cardiac treatment. According to the WHO, cardiovascular risk evaluations and behavioral objectives have not been combined in practice. There is a need to improve these practices.

Review of Literature

There have been many studies carried out on patients with coronary diseases, but their focus has been on post myocardial infarction. Very few studies have kept PTCA as their main objective. The studies have been on the sample of African American and there is no study that has its focus on a diverse sample. Therefore the authors have tried to fill in the gap of the literature by conducting a study on a diverse sample of the post PTCA, and have concentrated on the values, beliefs and attitudes linked to cardiovascular behavior reforms in reaction to the medical suggestions, and not the recovery process.

Theoretical Conceptual Framework

There was no theoretical framework, rather the research was done on a sample of 660 patients who had undergone PTCA at the New York hospital.

Methodology

The sample was drawn from the main study of the Healthy Behavior Trial, an arbitrary controlled test of 660 patients. All the respondents has given their written consent, and were enrolled inside one month of their PTCA and ...