Reference no: EM133002303

Literature Review Article Critique

Article - Social Workers as Patient Navigators: A Review of the Literature by Teri Browne, Julie Darnell, Tamara Estes Savage, and Alison Brown

Q1. Do the authors initially choose a variety of articles that relate to the subject? Describe why you think so. (They may find articles that loosely relate to the topic.)

Q2. Is the topic relevant to practitioners and clients? Describe why you think so.

Q3. Is a specific research question, hypothesis, or/and research goals clearly stated? If so, describe their research question, hypothesis, or/and research goals.

Q4. Do the authors report all of the search terms that were used to locate studies report?
If so, describe all of the search terms that the authors used. (For example, these may be batterers programs, spouse abuse treatment, effectiveness studies, group comparisons etc.)

Q5. In the article, are the time period (time intervals of the studies searched) included? If so, describe the time period of the studies searched. (For example, "the authors searched the databases for all articles from 2010 to 2020".)

Q6. In the article, are all sources for studies searched listed? Have the authors listed all of the search engines and data bases? If so, describe all of the search engines and data bases which the authors described.

Q7. Describe the author's criteria for excluding/including individual studies. This usually applies to the methodology, design of the study, sample size, types of sample, or types of statistical methods. (For example, "only studies that had samples larger than 20 were included"; OR "only studies that used random assignment with a control group were used". OR "only studies that measured the following outcomes... were used"; OR only studies that used randomized clinical trial designs were used; OR "only studies whose sample focused on spouse abusers with no other criminal records were used".

Q8. Do the authors give a reference/bibliography of all of the articles used in the review? Where do they describe it?

Q9. Do the authors classify, categorize, or separate the articles according to the "empirical credibility" of the article? Describe why you think so. (For example, did the author start with peer-reviewed journal articles from non-peer-reviewed articles and books etc?)

Q10. Do the authors make an attempt to rate the quality of each study included in the review? Describe why you think so.

Q11. Do the authors select the most relevant information from the articles as it pertains to the subject and purpose? Describe why you think so.

Q12. Do the authors critically examine the articles? Describe why you think so. (Do they look at methodology, statistics, results, theoretical framework, the author's purpose, etc.?)

Q13. Do the authors organize information in the way that makes most sense? Describe why you think so. (Does the article structure consist of the parts of Introduction, Methodology, Results, Discussions, and Conclusions and Limitations of Research?)

Q14. Do the authors draw any conclusions from the literature review? What were their conclusions?

Q15. Are their conclusions stated clearly and justified? Describe why you think so.