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{"title":"Using social media to recruit research participants: a literature review.","authors":"Kimberley Jones, Barbara Wilson-Keates, Sherri Melrose","doi":"10.7748/nr.2023.e1859","DOIUrl":"10.7748/nr.2023.e1859","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>It may be challenging for researchers to recruit enough participants to have a diverse and representative sample for their studies. Usual recruitment methods that were historically effective can be difficult to use because of high costs, time constraints and geographical limitations. Social media is a low-cost, time-saving alternative.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To summarise the benefits and challenges of using social media for recruitment.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>This article provides an overview of social media. It considers the advantages of social media for recruitment, including its cost-effectiveness, accessibility, speed and potential exposure for researchers. It also discusses the challenges of using social media for recruitment, including ethical ambiguity, homogenous sampling and questionable validity of information gathered.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Using social media for research saves time and reduces costs, increasing access to hard-to-reach populations and the reach of recruitment efforts.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>Options for researchers wishing to use social media for study recruitment are outlined, as are strategies for managing some of the challenges involved in this recruitment method.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138807805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How the expert nursing role was used to facilitate the co-design of a patient interview study.","authors":"Julia Kittscha, Valerie Wilson, Greg Fairbrother, Vida Bliokas","doi":"10.7748/nr.2024.e1918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.2024.e1918","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Co-design is a research method that seeks to engage service users in research. The approach fosters inclusivity and shared power by having researchers and research participants work together for some or all of a study.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To describe the experience of co-designing a patient interview study from the perspective of an expert stoma nurse, using a case-study approach and reflexive methods.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Valuing expert patients' experiences when conducting research about them enabled patients to be trained as participant researchers to co-design and undertake a patient interview study. The co-design process enabled the researcher to develop a greater recognition of the fact that experience of looking after people with stomas does not equate to expertise in knowing what it is like to have a stoma. This enriched her research experience and increased the authenticity of the study.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Co-designing a study with service users creates challenges for nurse researchers. They must pay attention to relational changes, time, planning and organisation to ensure that they conduct their research rigorously and ethically, and safeguard the co-researchers and other participants from potential risks.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>Co-designing research is critical for developing effective, patient-centred bodies of evidence. Nurse researchers can play a critical role but must be prepared to shift from directive to participatory methods to identify appropriate, patient-focused improvements.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139736414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The ecomap: a tool for extending understanding in hermeneutic phenomenological research.","authors":"Elizabeth Jestico, Bridget Taylor, Teresa Finlay, Susan Schutz","doi":"10.7748/nr.2023.e1890","DOIUrl":"10.7748/nr.2023.e1890","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Ecomaps are tools used in nursing practice to assess families' social support systems. Ecomaps have been used effectively in qualitative research but little attention has been given to their use as a tool in the methodological approach of hermeneutic phenomenology.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To demonstrate that the use of ecomaps is congruent with the Heideggerian philosophical foundations of hermeneutic phenomenology.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>This article reflects on a study in which the researchers used ecomaps to explore how parents of children with cancer are supported with decision-making about their children's care. Exploration of the Heideggerian concepts of 'being in the world', 'being with' and 'temporality' prompted reflections about how constructing ecomaps furthers understanding of participants' unique contexts. Using an ecomap in an in-depth interview enabled interviewees to return to their experiences of being supported with decision-making; it also further developed the researcher's understanding of how each participant's experience was situated in their evolving relationships with others.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Constructing ecomaps in hermeneutic phenomenology is in tune with Heideggerian philosophical concepts. Ecomaps can open a door to participants' experiences, deepen the researcher's understanding and find further meaning in those experiences.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>Ecomaps are a useful way of shining a light on participants' experiences in hermeneutic phenomenological research. The article provides practical tips to optimise their use in future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9957895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Indigenising systematic reviews with a collaborative model of 'training the trainers'.","authors":"Preethy D'Souza, Baby Nayak, Bhumika Tv, Kelly Dickson, Sandy Oliver","doi":"10.7748/nr.2023.e1882","DOIUrl":"10.7748/nr.2023.e1882","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Developing a workforce with the skills to produce and make judicious use of evidence for policy and practice decisions requires trainers who can tailor evidence and training to policy and practice priorities.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To describe how a collaborative learning model adapted a systematic review course to suit Indian nurse educators and research scholars in the conduct and use of systematic reviews.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>A collaborative learning team of academics and research scholars brought together expertise in nursing education in India, and evidence synthesis in India and the UK. Participants found the course was highly beneficial, enhanced independent and critical thinking, and instilled them with the confidence and skills to deliver such courses to Indian researchers, nurses and other healthcare professionals.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Contextualising materials and methods to participants' experiences made learning more relatable. The use of adult learning approaches enabled participants to apply the same approaches when leading training in their own institutions and underpinned long-term sustainable working relationships between facilitators and learners, leading to new studies and new resources to support evidence-informed decision-making.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>An educational intervention on 'indigenising systematic reviews' with online collaborative learning can produce improvements in the knowledge and skills of participants. Advantages of this educational approach include its flexibility, active involvement of participants and sustainable partnership building. The principles and methods used could be replicated in any setting to train trainers.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10062597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Involving patients and the public in nursing PhD projects: practical guidance, potential benefits and points to consider.","authors":"Chris McParland, Bridget Johnston, Bahaa Alassoud, Maria Drummond, Annabel Farnood, Chandra Isabella Hostanida Purba, Muzeyyen Seckin, Saengrawee Thanthong","doi":"10.7748/nr.2023.e1891","DOIUrl":"10.7748/nr.2023.e1891","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Funders, academic publishers and governance bodies increasingly require research to involve patients and the public. This also enables nurse researchers to increase the visibility of scholarly nursing roles, which are poorly understood by the public. There are different approaches to involvement, and a wealth of guidance about how it can and should be implemented. Less is known about how it should be done in the context of a nursing PhD.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To discuss the experiences of the authors' nursing research group in involving patients and the public in PhD research, reflect on the benefits to be gained from doing so, and highlight considerations for those planning to involve patients and the public in their doctoral research projects. Discussion It is essential to decide in advance of a study who you will involve, how to reach them and why you are involving patients and the public. Some potential benefits of involvement are: more accessible documentation, refined methods and better research outputs created in collaboration with patients and the public.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Patients and the public should be involved in nursing PhD projects. Not only does this improve the quality of the research and raise the profile of nursing research, but it provides the opportunity for students to learn skills that they can develop further throughout their academic careers.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>Obtaining high-quality patient and public involvement is an important skill for nurse researchers. The first steps in acquiring this skill should be taken during research training.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41143420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Get ready for 2024’s research challenge","authors":"","doi":"10.7748/nr.31.4.5.s1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.31.4.5.s1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138591931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using the making Visible the ImpaCT Of Research (VICTOR) questionnaire to evaluate the benefits of a fellowship programme for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals.","authors":"Carolyn Spring, Julie Hogg, Judith Holliday, Jo Cooke, Rachel M Taylor","doi":"10.7748/nr.2023.e1864","DOIUrl":"10.7748/nr.2023.e1864","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>There is increasing emphasis in the UK on developing a nurse, midwife and allied health professional (NMAHP) workforce that conducts research. Training for clinical academic careers is provided by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). However, the low number of successful applicants suggested there were barriers to achieving this. The Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Led Research (CNMR) launched a fellowship programme in 2016 to backfill two days a week of NMAHPs' time for up to a year, to give them time to make competitive applications to the NIHR.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To report a study evaluating the CNMR fellowship programme.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The making Visible the ImpaCT Of Research (VICTOR) tool ( Cooke et al 2019 ) was developed to describe the organisational impact of research. The 2016-17 CNMR fellows completed VICTOR and their responses were analysed using a framework approach. The analysis found the main benefits of participating in the programme were protected time for research, opportunities to develop collaborations, increasing intra- and inter-professional awareness of NMAHPs' research, peer-reviewed publications, and conference presentations. Challenges included a lack of support from line managers, limited value placed on NMAHPs' research and failure to backfill posts.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>There were some challenges with the fellowship programme, but all recipients found it to be a positive experience and undertook significant scholarly activity.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>A contractual agreement must be established to foster committed partnerships between higher education institutions (HEIs) and the NHS. HEIs and the NHS should conduct frank discussions of the challenges encountered in fellowship programmes. Positive initiatives and outcomes in tertiary education and clinical settings should be shared to improve fellows' experiences and enhance partnerships between HEIs and the NHS. Job descriptions should include time allocation to review fellowship candidates' applications regardless of outcome. The showcasing of research successes and the benefits of NMAHP research must evolve to secure organisational 'buy in', which is the precursor to widening access to clinical academic pathways.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41158848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating ethnically diverse patients' perspectives of considering participation in renal clinical research.","authors":"Joy Oghogho Agbonmwandolor, Sarah Brand","doi":"10.7748/nr.2023.e1904","DOIUrl":"10.7748/nr.2023.e1904","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Clinical trial cohorts do not often reflect target patient populations because minority ethnic groups are underrepresented in clinical trials.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To increase minority ethnic groups' opportunities to participate in clinical trials, by evaluating ethnically diverse patients' perspectives of considering participation in renal clinical research.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The authors gave patients participating in at least one research study the opportunity to take part in a structured survey. The survey explored preferences, barriers and opportunities that patients considered when deciding whether to take part in a clinical trial. The authors included participants from multiple ethnic groups so they could compare data for different ethnicities.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Participation was a positive experience for most patients, mostly because of the research team's flexibility and professionalism. Researchers' gender and ethnicity did not affect the participants' decision to participate. Cultural preferences were not obvious from the data as 80% of the participants were white.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>Patients preferred a face-to-face approach and the expertise of the research team affected participation more than any other characteristics did. However, respondents were already research-engaged and conducting a similar study with those who have declined to participate in research may show different results.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50163244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tips on how to improve research productivity","authors":"L. Halcomb","doi":"10.7748/nr.31.3.6.s2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/nr.31.3.6.s2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43325910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Scientific models for qualitative research: a textual thematic analysis coding system - Part 1.","authors":"Frederik Alkier Gildberg, Rhonda Wilson","doi":"10.7748/nr.2023.e1893","DOIUrl":"10.7748/nr.2023.e1893","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Models are central to the acquisition and organisation of scientific knowledge. However, there are few explanations of how to develop models in qualitative research, particularly in terms of thematic analysis.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To describe a new technique for scientific qualitative modelling: the Empirical Testing Thematic Analysis (ETTA). Part 2 describes the ETTA model.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>ETTA generates a semantic structure expressed through theme-code, content and functionality. It highlights the importance of authenticity markings and taxonomical and functional semantic analysis. Its primary advantage is the sequential need to account for taxonomic analysis, functionality factors, preconditioning items, cascade directories and modulation factors; this results in the production of a sound, systematic, scientific development of a model.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>ETTA is useful for nurse researchers undertaking qualitative research who want to construct models derived from their investigations.</p><p><strong>Implications for practice: </strong>This article provides a step-by-step approach for researchers undertaking research that culminates in the construction of a model derived from qualitative investigations.</p>","PeriodicalId":47412,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Researcher","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10176072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}