Patient Room Handedness in Acute Journal

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Structured interviews of the subjects were conducted at the end of each individual set of simulation runs to obtain triangulation data.

Video segments were coded by nursing experts.

Statistical and content analyses of the data were conducted.

Limitations

All nurses were female. Males may have provided different response. The sample may have been too small; only 10 individuals of each handedness were involved. The sample was extracted from only one environment, the participants were familiar with environment. Replication of various other environments may have provided different response. The repeated measures design may have influenced response second time around.

Commentary

I found details of structured interview to be too vague. The best accounts of experimental studies are those that reader can replicate. Many of the steps of this study were sufficiently elaborate for repllication, but I found details of interview questions vague and incompletely elaborated upon so that one left with an ambiguous impression of many of the questions.


Interviews also have some shortfalls. This includes the fact of interviewer and interviewee bias where either may perceive the other in a certain way that influences response as well as context of mood and place . The participants may be inadequately aware of their opinion or of their reason for their actions. In a similar way, they may erroneously attribute their actions to certain intentions that are really contingent on a third issue that may be overt or covert, or concealed to them.

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Author(s): Pati, D., Cason, C., Harvey, T.E., & Evans, J.

Article Title: An Empirical Examination of Patient Room Handedness in Acute Medical-Surgical Settings

Publisher: Herd

Publication: Health Environments Research & Design Journal

Publication Type: Refereed Journal

Date of Publication: 2010

ISSN: 1937-5867

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