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A 4 page critique of a quantitative nursing study, which analysis to be sound. This study is one that can be quite useful in practice in that it illustrates that interactive coaching intervention is beneficial to mothers and children where mothers are suffering from depressive tendencies. This study indicates that positive support is beneficial. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSnursResCritQuan.rtf
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Horowitz, Bell, Trybolski, Monro, Mosee, Gartz, McCordic and Sokol (2001) provide the account of a quantitative study in "Promoting Responsiveness between Mothers with Depressive
Symptoms and Their Infants." The purpose here is to critique the form, substance and conclusions of that study. Hypothesis Horowitz, et al.
(2001) explicitly state the hypothesis they seek to test ...the hypothesis was: Following completion of the interactive coaching intervention, the experimental group will have significantly higher maternal-infant responsiveness scores than
does the control group (Horowitz, et al., 2001). In pursuit of testing this hypothesis, the researchers developed three research questions. The design
calls for making an intervention, and one question is whether this intervention decreases maternal depressive symptoms. Another was whether scores change over time; the third was whether outcome is
affected by time. Literature Review The literature review that the researchers provide is quite extensive and addresses all factors that they seek to
test and assess. They begin by defining postpartum depression as it has been defined in the literature, and they provide diagnostic criteria and prevalence information as indicated by the
American Psychiatric Association. The authors indicate that postpartum depression has received a great deal of research attention, but that the issue of how
it affects bonding between the mother and child has not been fully addressed. They follow with a review of infant development literature, summarizing that "postpartum depressive reactions adversely affect
maternal and infant health" (Horowitz, et al., 2001; p. 323). Theoretical Framework The researchers state that they used A. Becks 1976 "cognitive model
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