Question

1. What was the research question for the meta-analysis?

2. Why was the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) included in the selection criteria?

3. What was the final sample size?

4. What were the results of the meta-analysis?

5. What is the personal critique of the meta-analysis? PLEASE TYPE :) thank you
PsycINFO, SciELO, and Scopus. ProQuest Dissertation&included the items specifically related to the internal Thesis and Google Scholar were used to find gray litera lidity of the study. We used this checklist because it is ture ie, published and unpublished research materia pecific for quantitative observational studies, as were all that is not available commercially; eg, conference papers/conference proceedings and theses). the included studies. No study wasexcluded because of methodological bias. Selection Criteria Data Collection We incduded research reports published in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, with original empirical dataon burnout prevalence rates. We used the MBIfor burnout We induded the following data from each study in the meta-analysis: . Authors, sessment for emergency nurses. We exduded studies without sufficient statistical information for performingCountry where the study was performed, meta-analyss calculations and studies with data from other professions or multiple units but without inde- pendent information for emergency nur ses Year of publication Type of MBI (MBl-Human Services Survey vs MBI General Services) Study temporality (eross-sectional vs longitudinal) We included only studies that used the MBI, because it is aninstrument with good psychometric properties and one of the most widely used by researchers studyingTotal sample of emergency nurses, burnout syndrome Including iterature that usedthe MBl for assessing burnout facilitated data interpretation although studies may have used different versions of theTotal sample of emergency nurses with high Deper- test, the results are based on similar cutoffvalues. The MBI use facilitated the integration and inter pretation of Total sample of emergency nurses with low Per- the results of the studies because including results from other burnout questionnaires (with different cutoff val- ues of burnout, or even different subscales) would no ues in each burnout subscale was gleaned from the allow for an integrated reliability analysis. Type of sampling (intentional vs random), Mixed sample (yes vs no), Total sample of emergency nurses with high Emo- tional Exhaustion, sonalization, and sonal Accomplishment The sample number or percen tage with low or high studies' results. Low, medium, and high values were determined by the MBI cutoff points of each study Study Selection Data coding was conducted independently by 2 Two members of the research team independentlymembers of the team, and then the mean degree of conducted the search and selection process; a third member was consulted in cases of disagreement. The Cohen K coefficent was calculated, yielding a mean selection process consisted of 4 phases. First the research alue of 0.91 (minimum 0.86; maximum 1). The ers made a selection after reading the title and abstract raclass correlation coefficient was used for continu They did a second screening after reading the full text of ous variables; the mean value was 0.93 (minimum the selected studies. The researchers then assessed the studies using a checklist to ascertain the quality of the stud- ies as well as the absence of methodological bias. Finally, Data Analysis the researchers conducted an inverse search (searching the included studies reference lists) and a forward search package for statistical analysis looking for studies that cite the included studies). An inverse search was also carried out in systematic reviews Intervals. Three independent meta-analyses (I for located during the search and related to the topic agreement was assessed. For categorical variables, 0.88; maximum 1). We used StatsDirect software and its meta-analysis Calculation of Prevalence Rates and Confidence each burnout subscale) were perfor med. A random- effects model meta-analysis-including the total sam ple and the sample with high Emotional Exhaustion, Quality Assessment To assess the methodological quality of the studies, we used Ciaponnis critical reading checklist, which igh Depersonalization, and low Personal Accomplish- ment-was chosen to calculate mean prevalence rates

Answer 1

1. What was the research question for the meta-analysis?

A systematic review answers a defined research question by collecting and summarising all empirical evidence that fits pre-specified eligibility criteria.

A meta-examination is the utilization of measurable techniques to condense the consequences of these investigations.

Efficient surveys, much the same as other research articles, can be of differing quality. They are a huge bit of work (the Center for Reviews and Dissemination at York assesses that a group will take 9 two years), and to be valuable to different scientists and specialists they ought to have:

• plainly expressed destinations with pre-characterized qualification criteria for studies
• express, reproducible procedure
• a methodical hunt that endeavors to distinguish all examinations
• appraisal of the legitimacy of the discoveries of the included investigations (e.g. danger of inclination)
• efficient introduction, and combination, of the attributes and discoveries of the included examinations

Orderly surveys can be of mediations (i.e. randomized controlled preliminaries) or perceptions (i.e. case control or associate examinations). The sort of concentrate to be incorporated will rely upon your exploration question. In spite of the fact that human science and brain science have been performing methodical surveys of observational examinations for quite a long time, a considerable lot of the ongoing assets have been created inside a restorative system utilizing randomized controlled preliminaries (RCTs) to evaluate whether a treatment is successful or not. In brain science and related orders, observational examinations are more typical (as RCTs may not be attainable or moral, e.g. it would not be conceivable to randomize youngsters to poor or improved social situations to evaluate affect on cognizance), and deliberate audits have a critical task to carry out.