Feasibility of Your Capstone Project and Importance of Communication
Evidence Appraisal Worksheet Your Name:
Date: July 13, 2016
Your Instructor’s Name:
Purpose: To find evidence to support an intervention that will change the outcomes. Directions: Type your search question below. Find AT LEAST FOUR sources to support the need for change and the potential intervention you have selected to solve the problem. At least three of your sources must be peer-reviewed articles. The fourth source could be another peer-reviewed article or a reliable, credible source. Look in your text for ideas of other sources that can be used. Using the table below, insert and describe your four chosen resources.
Step 1: APA Reference for the article. You will need to list the reference for the source in APA format. Be careful when using built-in APA formats and library citations. They may not be in APA format. Refer to Chapter 7 of your APA manual.
Step 2: Type of Source. If your source is a research article, you will need to ensure that it is a peer review article. You need at least three peer-reviewed articles for your project. If your article is a non–research source, then you will need to list what type of source it is; systematic review, clinical practice guidelines, organizational experience, or individual expert opinion/case study/literature review. You may only use ONE non-research source.
Step 3: Strength of Research. Refer to page 238-240 for research evidence and page 242-244 for non-research evidence. While you do not need to assign a level for each study, you will assign a quality of evidence (high, good, or low/major flaw) and should discuss the study using some of the elements that are discussed in the appraisal forms. For example, Research evidence: was the sample size adequate? Was there a controlled group? Was it a randomized study? Were the results clearly stated? Was the conclusion based on the results? Were study limitations discussed? Not all of these elements need to be discussed, but you should discuss this information to determine if the strength of the evidence is HIGH, GOOD, or LOW/MAJOR FLAW.
Step 4: Brief Description of the Research. In this section, you will summarize the source in your own words. How does this information apply to your project? What are the results of the source? What are their recommendations?
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| APA Reference for Article | Type of | Strength of | Brief | |
| Give the APA-formatted reference | Source | Research | Description of | |
| for the article. | *Research: | Discuss the | Research | |
| Peer-reviewed | power of the | Address the | ||
| article | sources. | questions. | ||
| *Non-research | Report if | *How does the | ||
| systematic | evidence is | information in | ||
| review, clinical | High, Good, | the article apply | ||
| practice | or | to the project | ||
| guidelines, | Low/Major | problem or | ||
| organizational | Flaw. Use | proposed | ||
| experience, or | the tools on | intervention? | ||
| expert | page | *Summarize in | ||
| opinion/case | 238-244 of | your own words. | ||
| study/literatur | your text | * Include results | ||
| e review | and discuss | of the study and | ||
| the reasons | how these | |||
| why you | results are | |||
| have assigned a particularlevel of quality. | applicable to your project.* What is the recommendation of the source for clinicalpractice? |