Identify and describe the problem, purpose, and hypothesis or research questions of each study.

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Instructions

The focus of this week’s assignment is identifying research components. You will be responsible for reviewing two articles (listed below) and completing the following tasks for each one:

• Summarize each article utilizing the Week 2 research template.
• Identify and describe the problem, purpose, and hypothesis or research questions of each study.
• Analyze and discuss the significance of the research to nursing practice.
• Identify two details to support the research as qualitative or quantitative.
• NOTE: If a component is absent, student receives a zero for that component.

Cite all sources in APA format.

Submission Details

• Name your document SU_NSG3029_W2_Project_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
• Submit your template to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.

Article Assignments

Students with the last name beginning with A-L

Bortz, A., Ashkenazi, T., & Melnikov, S. (2015). Spirituality as a predictive factor for signing an organ donor card. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 47(1), 25-33. doi: 10.1111/jnu.12107

Dinkel, S., & Schmidt, K. (2015). Health education needs of incarcerated women. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 46(4), 229-234. doi: 10.1111/jnu.12079

NSG3029 W4 Project

Research Template Name

Cite both articles reviewed in APA style:

Bortz, A., Ashkenazi, T., & Melnikov, S. (2015). Spirituality as a predictive factor for signing an organ donor card. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 47(1), 25-33. doi: 10.1111/jnu.12107

Dinkel, S., & Schmidt, K. (2015). Health education needs of incarcerated women. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 46(4), 229-234. doi: 10.1111/jnu.12079

***In the template, any direct quotes from the articles needs to only include the page number.

Week 4 Template	Quantitative Article	Qualitative Article
Identify and describe the sample including demographics, in the studies chosen in W2 Assignment 2	The researchers used a purposive, non-probability sample. The study demographics are incarcerated women from all ethnic backgrounds and all age groups.	A convenience sample was used. 312 study participants were chosen for the sample. The study demographics characteristics are (1) age between 19 and 84; (3) various social backgrounds; (4) females were the prevailing gender group; (5) more than 60% of subjects had an academic degree; (6) more than 70% of all participants agreed to donate their organs.
Discuss the steps of the data collection process used in the studies	To collect the research data, the subjects were divided into two groups depending on the type of blocks they were kept in. The interviewer visited both groups. Provisions were made to keep the correctional officers at a distance from the interview rooms in order to minimize the threat of acquiring the biased research results.	Online survey helped in collecting research data.
Identify the study variables (independent and dependent)	Independent variables are trust, respect, and empowerment, and dependent variable is the quality of health education offered to incarcerated women.	Independent variables are spiritual health, purpose in life, and social-demographic status, and dependent variable is the decision to sign the donor card.

Identify the sampling design	“A non-random purposive sample” (Dinkel & Schmidt, 2015, p. 27).	A random choice of focus groups
Describe the instrument, tool, or survey used in each article.	The instrument is a questionnaire, the tool is interview	Researchers used online survey.
Summarize the discussion about the validity and reliability of the instruments, tools, or surveys used in each article	Since the purposeful sample was selected for the research, the scholars evaluated the external validity of their research results as rather high (Dinkel & Schmidt, 2015).	The scholars stated that they are aware of the strong and weak points of the instrument selected for the research. They considered the privacy provided by the online survey tool the strong characteristic of their research project (Bortz, Ashkenazi, & Melnikov, 2015). They believed this peculiarity enabled the study subjects to provide unbiased answers. The limitations they noted were connected to the religious and ethnic homogeneity of study subjects. They explained that because the study was conducted in Israel, most respondents were the Hebrew followers of Judaism (Bortz et al., 2015).
Identify the legal and ethical concerns for each article, including informed consent and IRB approval	IRB approved the research proposal. Before interviewing participants, researchers made the provisions to obtain their informed consent.	IRB approved the research procedures. The informed consent form was placed at the top of the online questionnaire, so subjects could proceed to answering questions only after signing in the informed consent.

Conclusion: Analysis of research components of the proposed articles demonstrated the high validity and credibility of the research results. However, as in any study, the researchers faced certain limitations, so they made notifications regarding the possibility of minor drawbacks.