HSC 480: Health Sciences Capstone

The Literature Review (from your assignment, Fall 2024):

• Summary of assignment: Students will identify their topic and research question based on their fieldwork area or a related topic of interest and undertake a literature review to generate (1) a Capstone I Literature Review Final Report (separate from the Fieldwork Report) and (2) a presentation that will include a summary of findings from your literature review and fieldwork experience.
• 2. Develop a research question using the PICOST (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome, Study Type and Timeframe) framework that will you identify a narrow question that you will aim to answer about your topic of interest.
  3. Search ONE database (i.e., Medline (Pubmed) or CINAHL) using a pre-defined set of key words, controlled vocabulary (MESH terms), and screens on publication date (5 or 10 years old) and other factors to locate peer-reviewed journal articles that address your question.
  4. Clearly document this approach in your report so it could be repeated by someone else, and state (in the results section) the total number of peer-reviewed research articles that would have been eligible for inclusion in your literature review using this approach.
  5. From all eligible peer-reviewed research articles, select and retrieve ten (10) representative peer-reviewed research articles reflecting a range of findings to be directly discussed and cited in your review. Selected articles should report on negative or conflicting results, if
  available. Your sources should be as current as possible and limited to publication dates from the past 5 or 10 years.
  7. Each of the ten (10) peer-reviewed articles selected for your review must be cited correctly using an in-text bracket note when referred to in the text of your report, and as a complete citation in a dedicated “References Cited” section at the end of your report (per APA style).
  8. Your sources must be original research studies that use primary data using an observational or interventional study design. Up to three (3) studies may be essays or viewpoints that provide interpretation or expert input. If you uncover systematic reviews, mention them in your introduction, but do not include them in your 10 sources.

Activate your ILLiad Interlibrary Loan account by logging in with your Pace username and password and completing the short registration form:

Register for an Account in PubMed (Optional)

• Go to Pubmed.gov, click “Login,” then scroll down and click “Sign Up”
• If you have a Google account, you can sign up with that, then you can continue to use your account after you graduate

If you don’t have a Google account, you can use one of the other options, or click “more signup options” then click to locate “Pace University” and sign up using your Pace credentials.

Often, Google Scholar will show the citation for an article, but the full text of the article is not available for free online.  You can configure Google Scholar to link you to the full-text of articles available from the Pace databases.  If we don't have the article available, you can also request it through InterLibrary Loan.