Reference no: EM133468097

This study was designed to explore and describe the meaning of the risk experience among middle-aged men and women who had a parent who had died of colon cancer and who, therefore, were at elevated risk for colon cancer themselves. A sample of 15 people whose parent had died within the previous 24 months was recruited for the study. In-depth interviews, lasting between 1 and 2 hours, were conducted in participants' homes. The conversations were audiorecorded and later transcribed. The interviews examined such issues as perceptions of risk, efforts made to reduce risk, and coping strategies. It was found that most people had experienced a heightened sense of risk in the first few months after the death of their parent, but that over time, they tended to block out their fears and therefore tended not to take preventive steps or to schedule appropriate screening tests.

1. Is this a qualitative or quantitative study? Relate this method to a specific paradigm by describing key methodological characteristics.

2. Select the underlying research purpose (Diagnosis and assessment, prognosis, etiology, description, meaning and process) of this study and describe how it is linked to Evidence Based Practice.

3. Discuss whether, and how, this study is consistent with a current priority area for nursing research. How might a nurse researcher apply this study to support EBP? Is this topic significant to advancing evidence-based practice in nursing?

4. Describe how evidence-based nursing research sources of information (primary, systematic, or meta analysis) can be applied to this topic with intentions to promote quality patient outcomes. How can a multidisciplinary interprofessional team approach benefit this type of research study?

5. Using the Polit Beck Evidence hierarchy/level of evidence scale, identify the rank the study would fall into and explain why.