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MODULE 6 SHORT PAPER

Teleshia Colvin

Southern New Hampshire University

6-2 Short Paper Analyzing Research Methods

MODULE 6 SHORT PAPER

It’s essential to develop research and understand the relationship between patient falls and increased intensity of physical exercise. Most people believe that physical exercise is directly related to physical strength and gradual reduction in falls among the elderly. However, they fail to understand that in case elderly people fall, they may get hurt and develop a phobia against physical exercise. Therefore through systematic data collection, analysis and presentation are possible to understand whether there is a direct link between physical interventions and reduced fall rates among the elderly.

Forming an integration between proper research methods, data collection tools, and analysis methods helped in providing adequate information about whether physical interventions are essential for falls reduction, potential gaps within this research area, and recommendations for future research. The PICO format was used to internet search for key terms that would provide the researchers with relevant, contemporary, and accurate studies relating to this subject area. The major keywords used in the research included elderly people, physical or exercise interventions, risk of falling, nurse’s roles, patient’s age, among other essential words. Over the research process, the research understood potential gaps within the field and inconsistencies to avoid bias over the process.

After the development of research questions, the research methods used in the study was the review of secondary sources of data; this included analysis of literature reviews and multiple sources relating the failure rates increase among the elderly people. Additionally, through internet research, interviews and surveys relating to the subject matter were obtained. Additionally, there were scholarly and peer-reviewed sources used during the systematic literature review process; the articles were to be written and published in English.

According to the research questions that were to be answered, the data collection methods were similar; however, during the research process, the PICO question was researchers along the keywords relating to the research topic. It provided the study within relevant articles; additionally, quality assessment criteria were used throughout the process to ensure the articles were scholarly and qualified for a research paper. Some keywords include in this phase include elderly people, physical or exercise interventions, risk of falling. The criteria for this data collection helped the author to have relevant and current articles that should be used for the synthesis process. Additionally, the data analysis procedures used include measures of central tendency, including the mean, median, and determination of the sizes of the sample, which are relatively simple statistics.

These measures of standards deviation helped to evaluate the positive and negative correlations to understand the association. For example, the interquartile range was used in the discussion of the highest and lowest number of falls after interventions occurred. Therefore the statistical analysis provided the author with the most interactive and effective means of interpreting various studies and making the necessary deductions. This method was appropriate since it offered an authentic and honest opinion from the respondents regarding the appropriateness of the exercise intervention and areas that would be improved to provide maximum value. Morello et al. (2019).

Although the research process and analysis were comprehensive and satisfactory, there were numerous gaps over the process, meaning that additional research was needed in this field to understand the effects of a physical intervention on reduced patient’s fails. Firstly was that there may have been biased research since no research was found to have a negative relationship between physical intervention and falling rates. Therefore it’s either that the previous researchers knew the expectations of their research or they never recorded everything. Therefore since only secondary research papers were used, our literature review may be subjected to publication bias where all researchers have similar thoughts.

References

Burns, E., & Kakara, R. (2018). Deaths from falls among persons aged≥ 65 years—the United States, 2007–2016. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 67(18), 509. DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6718a1

Dionyssiotis, Y. (2012). Analyzing the problem of falls among older people. International journal of eneral medicine, 5, 805. DOI: 10.2147/IJGM.S32651

Morello, R. T., Soh, S. E., Behm, K., Egan, A., Ayton, D., Hill, K., ... & Barker, A. L. (2019). Multifactorial falls prevention programmes for older adults presenting to the emergency department with a fall: systematic review and meta-analysis. Injury prevention, 25(6), 557-564. DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-04321