The first step in identifying the one best intervention for your capstone project is to search for evidence from six peer-reviewed studies to support two to three potential interventions. To do this, you must create a systematic search strategy. This type of search strategy requires multiple steps, specific methods, and an organized structure for documenting the results of your search.
This discussion activity has two parts:
Search Strategy
To prepare for this part of the discussion, review the What You Need to Know for Week 4 activity and complete the following tasks:
- Step 1: Analyze key information and evidence.
- Step 2: Draft and/or refine your search-specific research questions.
- Step 3: Develop your search strategy methods, conduct the search, and document your search results.
In your initial post, discuss your analysis findings, share your draft or refined research questions for the search, describe your search strategy methods, and document your search results. Address the following questions or points in your post:
- What search terms and areas of literature did you identify from your analysis of the key information and evidence you have gathered thus far?
- How did your analysis help to refine your previous research question draft?
- Did you develop any additional research question drafts related to potential improvement interventions?
- Describe your search strategy. Be sure to include:
- Search terms.
- Sources of evidence, such as databases used.
- Publication date limits used for the search.
- Inclusion and exclusion criteria.
- A summary of how your search relates to research elements.
- Describe your search results. Include:
- The total number of publications found.
- The number of publications found for each search term.
- Details on which publications you chose to keep and not keep, along with the rationale for your decision.
It is expected that you will use this section as a draft for the "Population and Intervention" section of your Project Plan.
Discussion: Literature Review
Attach a draft of your literature review and critical appraisal of each of the six peer-reviewed studies.
This draft literature review and critical appraisal must be a minimum of 3 pages, not including a title page and references page.