HUMAN RESPONSES TO CHRONIC ILLNESS
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This research critiques the article "Human Responses to Chronic Illness: Physiologic and Psychosocial Adaptation" by Susan Pollock (1986, pp. 90-95). The critiqued is performed relation to two general aspects of the article. The first aspect encompasses those elements of the article through which the author/researcher defined the problem, established theoretical bases for the research, and provided other information relevant to the research study. The second aspect covers the research methodology, study findings, and the assessment by the critique writer of the relevance to nursing practice of the research reported in the article.Problem Definition, Bases For Conduct of the Eight elements of the article are critiqued in this section. The article title and article abstract are considered together, as are the article introduction and problem statement. Ethical controls, review of literature, theoretical framework, and research hypotheses are addressed in separate discussions. The title of the article was succinct and accurate. Persons reading the article title would know what to expect from a reading of the article. The article abstract was comprehensive in content and concise in reporting. Research objectives, method, and major findings were included in the abstract. The most important information not included in the ab
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-1985, while the latest source cited in the literature review was dated in 1982. The quality of the literature could have been improved through the inclusion of later sources.
The sources reviewed were all reported the results of primary research. While the author/researcher reviewed the cited sources from a critical perspective, the value of the literature review would have been enhanced through the presentation of a synthesis of the several critiques.
Theoretical Framework
The theoretical framework was clearly identified in the article (Pollock, 1986, p. 91). The theoretical framework presented in the article was directly relevant to the problem investigated. The theoretical framework for the study was based on the Adaptation to Chronic Illness Model that had been developed by the author/researcher as a part of a prior study. The relationships among the propositions in the model were clearly stated, and facilitated the formulation of research hypotheses. The concepts included in the model were operationally defined in the contexts of focal stimuli (the dependent variable), contextual stimuli (intervening variables), and residual stimuli (the independent variable).
Research Hypotheses
Three hypotheses were formulated f
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