Critique of a Quantitative Study Called Relationship Between Self-Care and Health Related Quality of Life in Older Adults With Moderate to Advanced He

Critique of a Quantitative Study
This critique is of a quantitative study called “Relationship Between Self-care and Health-Related Quality of Life in Older Adults With Moderate to Advanced Heart Failure” it was written by; Harleah Buck, Christopher Lee, Debra Moser, Nancy Albert, Terry Lennie, Brooke Bentley, Linda Worrall-carter, and Barbara Riegel. It was published in 2012 in the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.
Problem
The problem identified in the literature is that there was a gap in knowledge due to little evidence or ambiguous findings regarding the relationship between self care and health related quality of life (Buck et al. 2012).
Review of the Literature
The review of the literature was relevant, up to date, and strength of this study. The authors’ cited 47 articles that ranged in date from 2000-2010. Their reference list included current articles that related directly to their topic of quality of life, heart failure, and self care in the older adults. The majority of references came from scholarly journals. To supplement the authors topic further there were statistical references on heart disease. Furthermore, the literature review included theories on quality of life and self efficacy. Finally, the authors found articles related to the MLHFQ which was a questionnaire that was used in this study. The literature review was both covered in the beginning of the article titled “background” but was also found in the end of the articles results section. This research article was able to critically apply the literature to support their findings and practice implications. This allows the reader to be able to see how their research is connected to others.

Conceptual Framework
The conceptual framework that was identif...

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...that data has implications for those with moderate to severe heart failure one must take into consideration that the study had over eighty percent with type three heart failure instead of type four. This is significant because a participant’s symptoms and self care may be different depending on the stage of heart failure. The data was not collected by the researchers themselves which may have caused problems assuring response rates, how data was collected and not knowing possible variables to data collection. Additionally there was low chochran reliability for one of the tests.

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Works Cited

Buck, H., Lee, C., Moser, D., Albert, N., Lennie, T., Bentley, B., & ... Riegel, B. (2012). Relationship Between Self-care and Health-Related Quality of Life in Older Adults With Moderate to Advanced Heart Failure. Journal Of Cardiovascular Nursing, 27(1), 8-15.