Lived Experiences of Surviving In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Research Article Critique: Qualitative Study
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Review of Introduction
Background
The researchers provided a brief background about the main population and disease entity investigated in this study. Specifically, the researchers provided information about cardiac arrest, its epidemiology, and the differences in the description, statistics, and implications of inpatient hospital cardiac arrest versus outpatient hospital cardiac arrest (Bremer et al., 2019).
Problem Statement
The researchers had a clear problem statement, but it was not stated explicitly. The problems, including the past and present mental and emotional repercussions of experiencing a distressful event, such as anxiety, feelings of insecurity, feeling of worthlessness as one are being regarded as deadly secondary to the disease, and skepticism of the patient’s quality of life (Bremer et al., 2019). This shows that the problem is mainly at the intrapersonal level of the population involved. Furthermore, provided that they were able to provide the statistics, this illustrates that they indirectly implicated the significance of the study and the need to use this group as the population of the study.
Purpose and Research Questions
The researchers also provided a clear objective of the study, which states that the investigators aim to expound on the learned values of the lived experiences of patients who had inpatient hospital cardiac arrest. However, the objective was not discussed in detail (Bremer et al., 2019).
Congruence to Research Tradition
In a qualitative study, congruence refers to the significance of harmony among the research questions, the delivery of the research questions, and the methodology for answering these questions. In the introduction, only the first two apply. Since the researchers only provided the objective without a detailed explanation of research questions, they failed to comply with research tradition.
Review of Literature
The researchers utilized a combination of peer-reviewed and nonpeer-reviewed journals and both quantitative and qualitative papers. All of the journals used are related to the topic. However, the strength of evidence was not quite strong since most of the literature belongs to the lower hierarchy of evidence, specifically qualitative studies. According to Polit and Beck (2010), the review of entire journal articles is significant in gathering information about the knowledge gap. They added that quantitative studies belong to levels I to IV, with meta-analysis ranked the highest, while qualitative studies belong to levels V to VII. The researchers only had one systematic review of quantitative studies in this paper, categorized as level I evidence (Polit & Beck, 2010). On top of these, the research articles used for the literature review were published in respectable journals. An example of this is Circulation. However, the others were published in non-validated press such as the National Academies Press in Washington, DC (Bremer et al., 2019).
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