The study was conducted the way it was conducted for specific reasons. First, it was conducted for the purpose of knowing more. At the time of this study’s beginning, there was very limited collected knowledge about the perspectives of the patients when it comes to the topic of Total Knee Replacements. The subject has conjured various sentiments and emotions among chronic knee pain sufferers, their families, friends and the public in general. Most of these sentiments were fear, anxiety, denial, loss, limitation and doom. This in turn has resulted in a negative view of the procedure and avoidance of it by patients as a realistic option. In Hawker’s study (as cited in Jacobson, Myerscough, Delambo, Fleming, Huddleston, Bright, and Varley, 2008),
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This type of information is difficult to quantify and be assigned a numeric value. This is also a part of the gap in the literature, as very little data is known to account for the patient’s feeling about the procedure. There is such disconnect that it causes separation and difference on the views of patients and health care providers. As a result, a large void of information is unknown as to why patients are uneasy and uncomfortable when the procedure is offered as an option and very little is being done as far educating about the benefits and correcting negative perceptions about the …show more content…
Nevertheless, it does not mean that it was blatantly disregarded, because I trust that they believe in their study and want it to have integrity. I do believe that the data has dependability as the data collected has stability to be consistent over time as I don’t think the general responses and concerns and themes that the study participants will voice out concerning other TKR studies will be very different from the ones collected in this particular study. Credibility goes hand in hand with dependability. The data obtained can also possess confirmability as the data collected characterize general concerns that people feel about a major procedure. The data is transferable because the same themes voiced out by the participants are not exclusive to TKR but also for other major surgeries and procedures. As far as authenticity, the researchers included excerpts and quotes that exhibit the participant’s real life struggles and concerns about the procedure, therefor this reveals a degree of authenticity in the study. In enumerating the criteria, I believe that study is trustworthy even though the strategies that were not easily located in the body of the paper as I feel that it was more subtly included in the
This type of information is difficult to quantify and be assigned a numeric value. This is also a part of the gap in the literature, as very little data is known to account for the patient’s feeling about the procedure. There is such disconnect that it causes separation and difference on the views of patients and health care providers. As a result, a large void of information is unknown as to why patients are uneasy and uncomfortable when the procedure is offered as an option and very little is being done as far educating about the benefits and correcting negative perceptions about the …show more content…
Nevertheless, it does not mean that it was blatantly disregarded, because I trust that they believe in their study and want it to have integrity. I do believe that the data has dependability as the data collected has stability to be consistent over time as I don’t think the general responses and concerns and themes that the study participants will voice out concerning other TKR studies will be very different from the ones collected in this particular study. Credibility goes hand in hand with dependability. The data obtained can also possess confirmability as the data collected characterize general concerns that people feel about a major procedure. The data is transferable because the same themes voiced out by the participants are not exclusive to TKR but also for other major surgeries and procedures. As far as authenticity, the researchers included excerpts and quotes that exhibit the participant’s real life struggles and concerns about the procedure, therefor this reveals a degree of authenticity in the study. In enumerating the criteria, I believe that study is trustworthy even though the strategies that were not easily located in the body of the paper as I feel that it was more subtly included in the