Question

• Discuss ways you would disseminate research-based evidence; how would you share with your peers? Include your thoughts on why it is important for you to be involved in communicating and applying nursing research evidence.

Answer 1

I chose Quantitative balance and gait measurement in patients with front temporal dementia and Alzheimer diseases. The findings of this article were that balance and gait problems are more significant in the patient with FTD and AD in comparison with the normal aging subjects. They also concluded that gait abnormalities are more significant in patients with FTD than patients with the AD. In opposition, postural stability abnormalities are more significant in patients with the AD than FTD patients. I won’t apply the evidence found in my practice because the results of this pilot study were based in a small sample, the findings of this study are not a guarantee to establish a statistical foundation, in addition, pilot studies assess the feasibility of a study.

Parental noncompliance with immunizations is a public health concern that has increased during the past years. With the resurgence of disease like measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) that were almost eradicated with the mandated childhood immunization schedule, there is a need to address the parent’s concerns in order to reduce the number of unimmunized patients. Concerns regarding the relation between MMR and the risk for ASD have been identified as one of the major reasons for vaccine rejection. A good design patient education focuses on those concerns will reduce vaccine misperceptions and increase vaccination rates for MMR. To translate my research into practice the first step is to identify an effective message in vaccination promotion that I can test on the pediatric clinic. According to Brendan et al. (2014) “None of the pro-vaccine messages created by public health authorities increased intent to vaccinate with MMR”. With this in mind, the presentation to my peers will be a focus on what has been effective on pro-vaccine messages, furthermore, I will present how the education intervention can be implemented in the practice to accomplish the objective. At the beginning of my research I thought that my focus should be the implementation of education to increase the immunization rate, however, according to the evidence-based practice this implementation has already been tested with not much success. At this point I understood that my research should be focusing primary on the effectiveness of the message to increase the immunization rate.

Reference:

Velayutham, S. G., Chandra, S. R., Bharath, S., & Shankar, R. G. (2017). Quantitative balance and gait measurement in patients with frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer diseases: A pilot study. Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 39(2), 176-182. doi:10.4103/0253-7176.203132