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Assignment

Please read the article and answer the questions below..

1. According to the literature review, what information was already known about the topic?

2. What were the study's research questions?

3. What type of research design was used in this study? Why was this design chosen? Was the authors' description of the qualitative design adequate? Why or why not?

4. Did the authors explain how entry to the research site was gained?

5. How did the authors describe their roles in interacting with participants? Was the this description of the researcher's role in interacting with participants adequate? Why or why not?

6. Whose voice (authors' or participants') is featured in the article?

7. How were data collected?

8. How were data analyzed?

9. How did the authors address credibility of the data?

10. How did the authors address ethical research issues in their study?

11. In what way did the selection of participants to interview or observe limit the findings?

12. What findings or conclusions did the authors draw?

13. How did the findings relate to the information presented in the literature review?

14. What are the theoretical and practical implications of the findings?

15. Did the authors address limitations of the research design? What were they?

16. Did the authors describe future research suggested by the study's results? What suggestions did the authors make?

Article: Perspectives on communication in labor and delivery: A focusgroup analysis by WA Grobman, J Holl, D Woods, KM Gleason, B Wassilak and MK Szekendi.