Literature Review

Major(Retd) MrunaliniLecturer

RAKMHSU14-4-11

RAK Medical Health Sciences University RAK COLLEGE OF NURSING BSC Nursing VI & BDS IV Semesters

LITERATURE REVIEW

Purposes, sources, finding sources and writing the review

The student will be able to Define literature review List the purposes Identify the types and sources of

literature review Explain how to locate or search

literature Describe the process and method of

writing the literature review

OBJECTIVES

Definitions• What is literature ? All written sources relevant to the topic you have selected

• What is Literature Review ? It is an organized written presentation of what has been published on a topic by scholars and includes presentation of research conducted in the selected field of study

Why do we do review ?Purpose : To direct the development and implementation of the study

To convey to the reader what is currently known regarding the topic of interest

LITERATURE REVIEW

Types of literature

• Reports• Theses / Dissertations• Published research (Journal

articles)• Conference proceedings

SOURCES Primary sources : Written by the person

who originated or is responsible for generating the ideas published( research published by person/s who conducted the research)

Secondary sources : Summarizes or quotes content from primary sources. ( The authors of secondary sources paraphrase the works of researchers and theorists

Print Resources Electronic Literature Searches

◦ Online databases for Nurse researchers The MEDLINE The CINAHL(Cumulative index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature ) The PUBMED INFOTRIEVE

◦ Other bibliographic databases PSYCINFO AIDSLINE HEALTH STAR

LOCATING THE LITERATURE

Searching the literature :

Select data base to search Select key words Systematically record references

Screening References Abstracting and recording notes

Organizing the review Context and Style of writing

PREPARING A WRITTEN LITERATURE REVIEW

Identify key words and concepts to be searched

Identify potential references through electronic or manual search

Retrieve promising references

Screen references for relevance and appropriateness

Read relevant reference and take notes

Organize references

Analyze and integrate materials

Write review

Discard irrelevant and inappropriate references

Identify new references through

citations

Flow of Tasks in a Literature Review

Source

Problem/Research question

Sample

Framework

Concepts/variables

Design

Instruments

Results

Implications

Comments

Acor(1995)

Support program for families of head injured patients

19 family members

Not specified

Coping, self esteem

Pretest-posttest quasi experimental design

Jalowiec coping scale, Rosenberg’s self esteem scale

Experimental effects present but not statistically significant in coping

Community based intervention may not be helpful

Short time frame, small sample

Literature review summary table

Sorting your sources Developing the written review –

Introduction, Discussion of theoretical literature, discussion of empirical literature and a summary

Checking the references for completeness and accuracy

WRITING THE REVIEW OF LITERATURE

CONCLUSION

A thorough organized literature review facilitates the development of a research proposal

It directs the development and implementation of a study