Critiquing Quantitative Research Reports: Key Points for the Beginner Cathy H. Abell

This article is free for use with TopSCHOLAR®. It is posted on the International Faith Community Care Journal by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For details, please contact topscholar@wku.edu.

Recommendations Abell, Cathy H. and Garrett Wright, Dawn M. (2016) "Important Quantitative Research Report: Key Points for Beginners", International Faith Community Care Journal: Vol. 1. 2: Release 3, articles can be found at http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/ijfcn/vol2/iss3/1

Article to evaluate the value of the survey results. "Evaluation of intellectuals in research"

The reader can write down the author's name, job title, affiliation. This will provide their insights

There was a statistically significant difference between the two groups. It is also important to be able to do this.

If Crohbach's alpa is less than 0.80, it is considered an acceptable musical instrument. 0.70 -

This is a review of quantitative research paper by Linda Roughter "Patient Prognostic Evaluation: Pressure Ulcer Prevention Mattress", 2011 magazine of Nursing Academy of Nursing. The criticism is "Balanced evaluation of criticism and research report" (Polit & Beck, 2010), which will examine the pros and cons of this article and the importance and importance of this study for prevention of pressure ulcers (Burns & Grove , 2011). According to Burns and Grove (2011, p. 55), the summary "generally includes research objective, design, setting, sample size, main results and conclusion." In this article, the author explained the equipment used and clearly analyzed the results. However, the authors did not mention the design of the study, the purpose of the study and the location of the study. Parahoo and Reid stated that the recommendation should also be introduced in the summary (Ingham - Broomfield, 2008)

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to develop these evaluation skills by criticizing quantitative research. Recognize the author's reliability, publish journals, use data collection and analysis methods, survey results, ethical issues, and research advantages and disadvantages. In this article we will consider using the CASP Criticism Tool (CASP 2000) for method consistency and ease of display (see Appendix 1) and attach a copy of the tool

Quantitative data can be collected in various ways. In an experimental environment, researchers can directly collect quantitative data (response time, blood pressure, etc.). Alternatively, research participants can report such data themselves before or after the test. Questionnaire - interviewer or self - management - is usually used to collect quantitative data by asking respondents to report attitudes, experiences, demographics, etc. It is also common to observe quantitative data gathered for other purposes directly, such as quantitative data recorded in patient records or standardized test results of students.