Maternal Perceptions on Delaying Preschool Children's Vaccinations in Saudi Arabia

  Part 3: Review of the Literature (Grove, Burns & Gray chapter 18) (Max. 8-10 pages not including references and evidence table) 1. Explore your phenomena of interest by identifying and reading relevant literature. 2. Include empirically and theoretically based articles addressing your phenomenon from nursing and other disciplines as appropriate. 3. Describe the search strategy used to find articles (keywords, inclusive years) that address your question or phenomenon and report this out in your narrative. 4. Evidence Table: Create an Evidence Table to organize, compare, and contrast the literature about your phenomenon. Format the table in any way that will promote your ability to systematically analyze and synthesize the literature. a. The evidence table should contain a minimum of 7 articles, and a maximum of 20 articles. More than 20 articles are greater than the expected workload for this course. The quantity of articles is not as important as: i. Relevance of the articles to your phenomenon, ii. Quality of the synthesis iii. Clarity of writing b. As you create your evidence table, identify and begin to compare explicit definitions of your phenomenon. 5. Then write a critical review/appraisal of the literature related to your phenomenon a. Critical appraisal should be organized logically based upon how the literature clusters (headings are important for organizing the paper). b. Paper may be organized as most appropriate for your phenomena, such as: i. study design, ii. themes that emerged in the studies, iii. early/seminal versus recent studies iv. discipline/interdisciplinary, v. characteristics central to the phenomenon or theoretical considerations 6. Look to the PRIZMA guidelines as well as other meta-synthesis and meta-analysis articles for guidance on this. Organize your paper based upon what makes the most logic for your area of science. 7. Report/summarize the literature in the evidentiary table 8. Synthesize the literature in your paper, discussing the following surrounding the study of your phenomenon a. Major concepts, b. assumptions, c. perspectives, d. biases, e. strengths, f. limitations 9. Summarize your findings: a. Discuss your conclusions b. Address implications for further research c. Identify the gaps in the literature d. Propose research that is needed to address those gaps. 10. Revise and refine your specific aims from part 2 to fill that gap. 11. Write/re-write purpose statement and 1-2 specific aims as the final outcome of part 3. 12. Your specific aims will form the basis for part 4.