2.4 Inclusion and exclusion criteria
Aveyard (2014) advocates developing a systematic search strategy to be able to find and select the most relevant published materials that answer the literature review question in the most comprehensive way. Therefore, inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied.
Inclusion criteria: Primary studies, published in English, within the last ten years. Literature exploring immigrant women’s perceptions and experiences of the maternity care provided in the UK. Aveyard (2014) advocates using literature from primary sources, as this allows the author to analyse and interpret data directly from the source, therefore avoiding the margin of error that can arise from using data published in secondary sources.
Exclusion criteria: Secondary literature, published more than ten years ago, non-English literature. Non-English pieces of literature were excluded due to the lack of time and financial resources needed for translation. Studies that explore other aspects of the immigrants’ lives were also excluded in order to be able to focus on answering the literature review question.
Bettany-Saltikov (2016) advocates performing manual search by reading the reference lists of all related literature, referred to as ‘back chaining’ by Rees (2011). This search strategy enables the discovery of literature from outside …show more content…
While qualitative and mixed method studies were available, this author was not able to find randomised control trials (RCTs). Aveyard (2014) states that RCTs are ‘gold standard’ for research as they determine the effectiveness of a treatment or medicine. However, this literature review is not aiming to compare a treatment with another or no treatment but to explore women’s experience. Therefore, Aveyard (2014) says that in this case on the top of the hierarchy of evidence are cross-sectional studies and qualitative approaches and not
Aveyard (2014) advocates developing a systematic search strategy to be able to find and select the most relevant published materials that answer the literature review question in the most comprehensive way. Therefore, inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied.
Inclusion criteria: Primary studies, published in English, within the last ten years. Literature exploring immigrant women’s perceptions and experiences of the maternity care provided in the UK. Aveyard (2014) advocates using literature from primary sources, as this allows the author to analyse and interpret data directly from the source, therefore avoiding the margin of error that can arise from using data published in secondary sources.
Exclusion criteria: Secondary literature, published more than ten years ago, non-English literature. Non-English pieces of literature were excluded due to the lack of time and financial resources needed for translation. Studies that explore other aspects of the immigrants’ lives were also excluded in order to be able to focus on answering the literature review question.
Bettany-Saltikov (2016) advocates performing manual search by reading the reference lists of all related literature, referred to as ‘back chaining’ by Rees (2011). This search strategy enables the discovery of literature from outside …show more content…
While qualitative and mixed method studies were available, this author was not able to find randomised control trials (RCTs). Aveyard (2014) states that RCTs are ‘gold standard’ for research as they determine the effectiveness of a treatment or medicine. However, this literature review is not aiming to compare a treatment with another or no treatment but to explore women’s experience. Therefore, Aveyard (2014) says that in this case on the top of the hierarchy of evidence are cross-sectional studies and qualitative approaches and not