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    Clinical nursing and midwifery research: grey literature in African countries

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    2016
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    Sun, C.
    Klopper, H.
    Dohrn, J.
    Omoni, G.
    Malata, A.
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    Aim This study reviewed grey literature to assess clinical nursing and midwifery research conducted in southern and eastern African countries over the past decade. Background The shortage of published nursing research from African countries severely limits the ability of practicing nurses and midwives to base clinical decisions on solid evidence. However, little is known regarding unpublished or unindexed clinical research (‘grey literature’), a potentially rich source of information. Identifying these sources may reveal resources to assist nurses in providing evidence-based care. Introduction This scoping review of grey literature on clinical nursing and midwifery research in southern and eastern African countries helped to identify gaps in research and assess whether these gaps differ from published research. Methods Systematic searches of grey literature were performed. Research was included if it was conducted by nurses in 1 of 25 southern or eastern African countries, between 2004 and 2014 and included patient outcomes. Data were extracted on location, institution, research topic, institutional connections and author information. Chi-square tests were performed to compare differences between indexed and non-indexed literature. Results We found 262 studies by 287 authors from 17 southern and eastern African countries covering 13 topics. Although all topics were also found in indexed literature and there were statistically significant differences between the number of times, fewer topics were covered in grey literature vs. indexed. Discussion Patient satisfaction and experience and traditional health practices were more likely to be published, whereas chronic disease, assault and paediatric-related research were less often published
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10394/23172
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/inr.12231
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