Fatigue, Distress, and Quality of Life in Women with Breast Cancer

Quantitative Research Article Critique
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Quantitative Research Article Critique
Quantitative researchers utilizes several procedures in collecting and analysing data to draw meaningful conclusions. These procedures are highly sensitive and in most cases, analysts are prone to make errors in handling specific sections of the research. The article critique focuses on examining and reviewing all the procedures used towards improving future research in the field. This critique provides a detailed review of the article titled "Changes in fatigue, psychological distress, and quality of life after chemotherapy in women with breast cancer: A prospective study report" by Pok-Ja Oh and Jung-Ran Cho, stating relevant recommendations for making the article better. The criticized paper relates to changes in fatigue, psychological distress, and life after chemotherapy sessions for women fighting breast cancer. The report analyses the background of the study, objectives, methodology of the study, results obtained from the prospective study, conclusions arrived at, and implications for nursing practice. A detailed analysis of these elements reveals how they relate to the study's objective. Examination of the author's points and views gives us clear direction concerning the quality of the article. The article review will create a platform for making necessary changes based on the recommendations revealed from the critique. Based on the analysis, the authors do an excellent job in most sections but may require slight adjustments in others.
Abstract
The research abstract is precise enough to give the reader a general idea about what the study entails. According to an article published on Plos (2020), a good abstract should be structured to make the readers understand the study more easily. Oh and Cho (2018) excellently structure their abstract into background, objectives, methods, results, conclusion and implications for the study. It is quite easy to follow the study and understand what it is about based on this organization. While the question may not be stated explicitly, the authors could summarize it to give the reader a gist of what the study intended to answer. The abstract is satisfactory and needs to be further amended to make it specific and a good representative of the article. 
Introduction and Literature review
 The article's introduction and literature review are combined in one paragraph. The introductory paragraph does not clearly state the problem statement. There is no formal hypothesis that is not effectively produced in the article. The author does not justify the absence of a formal hypothesis. Having a separate introduction and literature review allows the author to provide a proper background of the topic and use the literature review to identity the gap. While the authors identify a gap in literature, some of the sources that they use are older than five years, which makes the research less reliable. For example, the source they cite as identifying a gap in literature was published in 2003, which is 15 years since the authors conducted this rese...