NR 439 Week 5 Assignment: Reading Research Literature

NR 439 Week 5 Assignment: Reading Research LiteratureType your answers to the following questions using complete sentences and correct grammar, spelling, and syntax. Click Save as and save the file with your last name and assignment, e.g., NR439_RRL_Smith. Submit to the Week 5 RRL basket in the Dropbox by 11:59 pm MT Sunday at the end of Week 5. The guidelines and grading rubric for this assignment may be found in Doc Sharing. Title: RRL Name The following questions pertain to: George, S., & Thomas, S. (2010). Lived experience of diabetes among older, rural people. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 66(5), . 1) What is the purpose of this research? The purpose of this research was to elucidate experiences and perceptions of self-management of diabetes as narrated by older people diagnosed with insulin in a rural area. 2) What is the research question (or questions)? This may be implicit or explicit. The research question is: Should diabetes education based on a nursing model incorporating the client’s insight and experiences versus a medical perspective be a better approach to manage diabetes in rural area among elderly? 3) Did the authors describe the research design of this study? If so, give a description. A research design as the framework or guide used for the planning, implementation, and analysis of a study, is the plan for answering the research question or hypothesis. The research design described by the authors is quantitative, the knowledge that results is based on careful observation and measurement and interpretation of objective reality. The approach to study is inductive, and involve the analysis of numbers in order to answer the research question. From the introduction, the authors started with the idea that the world is in the midst of an epidemic of diabetes, furthermore, they described that the amount of people diagnosed with diabetes tend to double by 2030. And 23 million, in the USA, are currently diagnosed with diabetes. As the sixth leading cause of death annually, diabetes is being responsible for 225,000 death in the USA, with over 90% of older adults are diagnosed with diabetes. And the prevalence of diabetes, according to the study is somewhat higher in rural than urban area. Those are characteristics of a quantitative research design Actually this is just introductory information to letthe reader know the significance of the issue. Any paper that has Lived Experiences in the title is a qualativie design, Look at the column titled Methodology- this is a phenomenological study which was influenced by Maurice Merleau-Ponty which tries to give a direct description as it is and describe the human experience on its own terms among people that have the same experience 4) Describe the population (sample) for this study. A purposive sample was drawn from a local agencies on ageing and consisted of English-speaking people aged 65-85 years. Among the group were eight African American and two