2021
DOI: 10.1177/2057158521991949
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A practical guide to data analysis in general literature reviews

Abstract: Academic theses at the bachelor’s and master’s levels in nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, public health and related fields often take the form of general reviews of published research on a relevant clinical issue. While there are many guides to doing literature searches and evaluating article quality, there are to our knowledge no published detailed guides of how to do the actual data analysis in such general literature reviews, particularly that are applicable to students. This article seeks to d… Show more

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“…The main data taken from the journal article include researchers and research year, research design, research location, number and characteristics of research samples, questionnaire instrument with Likert scale, and research results and conclusions. The data is entered in the data extraction form and displayed in the form of a table (Mathes et al, 2017;Popenoe et al, 2021).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The main data taken from the journal article include researchers and research year, research design, research location, number and characteristics of research samples, questionnaire instrument with Likert scale, and research results and conclusions. The data is entered in the data extraction form and displayed in the form of a table (Mathes et al, 2017;Popenoe et al, 2021).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Existing documents in Malawi and Mozambique, including grey literature from VillageReach, such as project reports that include attendance records, CBPR results, meeting notes from prototyping activities, emails, presentations, records from health facilities and Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) reports, will be sourced from VillageReach staff, database searches and snowballing of articles. Documents will be stored and organized in Mendeley, and a matrix will be developed to summarize information gleaned from the reviewed documents (35).…”
Section: Sample Sizementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Data Analysis Document analysis will identify, sort and organize data from the documents related to HCD practice, CBPR, under-two immunization and the Project into speci c themes (35).…”
Section: Collection Of Health and Demographic Data On Under-two Immun...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Data accumulates over time and their number reaches billions every month. Processing such a large amount of data requires faster ways of searching and structuring them in some information system [1,2].…”
Section: Overviewmentioning
confidence: 99%