Qualitative Article: Patient Education On Heart Attack

Introduction
This paper is an academic critique of a qualitative article written by Christine Crumlish, PhD, CCRN, ACNS-BC, and Catherine Todd Magel, EdD, RN, BC. The article is titled: Patient Education on Heart Attack Response: Is Rehearsal the Critical Factor in Knowledge Retention, published in 2011. In this paper the nursing student writing this paper will analyze the purpose, the review of literature, the theoretical framework, the hypotheses, and the research method for their strengths, weaknesses, and validity.
Statement of the Problem/Purpose
The statement of the problem is unmistakably addressed in the introduction, the literature review, and the background of the article (Crumlish & Todd Magel, 2011, pp. 310-311). There is
310-311). Primary sources were predominantly used with a few secondary sources; the majority of both were from peer-reviewed journals (Crumlish & Todd Magel, 2011, pp. 316-317). The majority of data used relates to what causes people to delay their response to medical help for myocardial infarctions, which directly relates to the article (Crumlish & Todd Magel, 2011, pp. 316, 317). There is a considerable amount of data that is geared toward women, which is not specifically what the article is geared toward (Crumlish & Todd Magel, 2011, pp. 316, 317) The article is geared toward the elderly, which is stated at the end of the last paragraph in the introduction and in the sample demographic specifically stated for those over age fifty-five (Crumlish & Todd Magel, 2011, pp. 310,312). Although the majority of data used is older, it is the belief of this writer that the information is useful in providing a solid basis for the study. The information given in the older articles does not appear to contradictory to that of the newer articles, as shown in the literature review (Crumlish & Todd Magel, 2011, pp.
311). The authors’ chose the Leventhal Self-Regulatory Model, as “it has been used in other studies which explored factors relating to patient delay” (Crumlish & Todd Magel, 2011, p. 311). The authors’ describe three stages of the framework and how their study will fit the three stages including the intervention used in the study (Crumlish & Todd Magel, 2011, p. 311). Although the framework is designed for chronic illness Dr. Leventhal explains that although a myocardial infarction is acute it is related to a chronic illness (Leventhal, 2016). Therefore bridging the gap needed for the design of the