The Effect of an Infant Care

Educational Program on the Stress

Level of Primiparous Women
CRITICAL APPRAISAL
 PICO
P Primiparous women
patient

I Infant care educational program

intervention

C
Not given infant care educational program
comparison

O
Stress level
Outcome
 Critical Appraisal
Title and Author

1 The number of words in the title less than 12 words Yes (10)

2 Description of the title No

3 Author list fits to journal regulation Ya

4 Corresponding authors Yes

5 Time and place of the study are included in the title No

 Abstract

1 Consist 1 paragraph No

2 Includes IMRC Yes

3 Informative Yes

4 No unappropriate abbreviation Yes

5 Less than 250 words Yes

 Introduction

1 Consists of 2 parts or 2 paragraphs 10 paragraphs

2 The first paragraph describes motive of the study No

3 The second paragraph describes hypothesis or aim of the study No

4 Provided with relevant sources Yes

5 Less than a page long No

 Method

1 Study design Yes

2 Research time and place Yes

3 Is the included population explicitly described Yes

4 Sampling technique Yes
5 Inclusion criteria Yes
6 Exclusion criteroa Yes

7 Calculation of sample size No

8 Study details Yes

9 Blind No
10 Statistic test Yes

11 Computer program Yes

12 Informed consent Yes

 Result
1 Number of subject Yes

2 Table of subject characteristic Yes

3 Table of study result Yes

4 Authors commentary and opinion Yes

5 Table of analyzed data Yes

 Discussion, Conclusion, and Reference

1 Discussion and conclusion described separately Yes

2 Discussion and conclusion clearly described Yes

3 Discussion described based on the previous studies Yes

4 Discussion described based on the theory Yes

5 Study limitation Yes

6 Main conclusion Yes

7 Conclusion based on the study Yes

8 Research advice No

9 Appropriate reference list Yes