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Assignment -

Instructions: Please read the background information. When you have read the background information, you can answer the questions. You will need to apply the knowledge that you have gained from Topics 1-4 to complete these questions.

Background: Immunisation - Health beliefs

Nursing students: You are working as a registered nurse in a GP Practice and one of your roles is to promote immunisation for children (this may be the MMR or other recommended immunisations). You have had a few parents refuse vaccinations for their children and this concerns you as you believe that this may leave the child and communities vulnerable to outbreaks of serious diseases.

Midwifery students: You are working as a midwife in an antenatal clinic. One of your roles is to promote vaccination against pertussis (whooping cough) for pregnant women. You have had a few pregnant women decline vaccination. This concerns you as you know that if the pregnant woman is immune to pertussis that passive immunity is passed to her unborn baby to protect them against pertussis when they are newborn until thery are able to be immunised themselves.

Questions -

Questions 1 - 4 (500 word equivalent)

Question 1a: From the background information provided above relating to immunisation, develop a researchable question.

Question 1b: Identify the elements of (words relating to) PICO (or PIO, if appropriate) in the research question that you have formulated.

Question 2a: What type of research methodology do you think should be used to answer the research question that you have formulated?

• Quantitative
• Qualitative
• Mixed methods

Question 2b: Justify why this methodology was chosen to answer the question (Approx 75 words - reference/s used to support your response should be written below your answer and are not included in the word count).

Question 3a: List 3 places/sources of information that can be used to obtain reliable evidence to answer the research question that you have formulated.

Question 3b: Using one of the resources listed above provide the details of a specific resource/publication that is an example of best available evidence to assist you in answering your research question.

Question 3c: Explain why the information source chosen is an example of best available evidence for answering the research question that you have formulated. Refer to the Levels of Evidence and Hierarchy of Evidence tables in Topic 2 (Approx 75 words - reference/s used to support your response should be written below your answer and are not included in the word count).

Question 4a: List three key words that will assist in finding suitable literature in a library database to answer the research question that you have formulated. For each of the search terms, suggest an alternate word for which the Boolean function "or" could be used and truncations and wildcards.

Question 4b: What actions could be taken to extend or limit the number of articles found or improve the quality/relevance of the articles found in the search? (Approx 75 words - reference/5 used to support your response should be written below your answer and are not included in the word count).

Question 5: (500 word equivalent)

Complete the template (attached) by providing the requested information relating to some of the specific components of the research articles listed. IBNU students only need to complete the two articles that are for 'IBNU students only' and IMBW students only need to complete the two articles that ore for 'IBMW students only'.

Articles -

1. Safety and immunogenicity of an MF59 - adjuvanted A/H1N1 pandemic influenza vaccine in children from there to seventeen years of age.

2. Promoting influenza vaccination: Insights from a qualitative meta-analysis of 14 years of influenza-related communications research by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  

Question 6: (1000 words)

Discuss the reasons why the studies above would or would not be helpful in enabling a nurse/midwife to have an informed discussion with parents/a pregnant woman about immunisation for their children/themselves. Comment on the relative value of the studies to the argument. Identify any further information that may be useful in an informed discussion with parents/a pregnant woman about immunisation for their children/ themselves. (References used to support your response should be written below your answer and ore not included in the word count).

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