Article Review: Critical Concepts by Schulz and Sherwood (Article Sample)

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This article review discusses critical concepts presented by Schulz and Sherwood on the physical and mental health impact of family caregiving. This article was drawn from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) which is the United States based library. NCBI houses a variety of databases critical to biomedicine, biotechnology and acts as a significant source for all bioinformatics tools and services.
This article was first reviewed in 2008 by Am J Nurs before its publication in 2009. The study fails to establish a research question and instead uses the stress-coping models to study caregiving and its associated physical and mental health impact. The article utilized previous studies combined with continuous clinical reporting to present its findings. Reading through the article shows how the two researchers presented their study and the similar findings a logical manner. Different strategies including the use of tables and figures helped them to achieve the desired consistent.
Different parts of the article utilize previous research to understand the effects of mental and physical health on caregivers. The use of Pinquart and Sorensen (2003) study findings helped the article to describe the differences between caregivers and non-caregivers. A keen follows up of the procedures utilized by the two researchers entailing the combination of different research findings can yield similar results if the same study was conducted again. Additional information that can help in the replication of study includes identifying the indicators and self-reports on health habits of the caregivers. This research utilized a conceptual framework instead of collecting data directly.
A practical researcher could prefer collecting data by interviewing caregivers and patients regarding the impact of physical and mental health. However, the results found in this study are evide...