I just had a chat from one of the 32 students in Dr. Amirehsani's NUR 473-06D section of Nursing Research.
This student was looking for reliability, validity, specificity, and other information about a research instrument that her group has chosen: Katz Index of independence in activities of daily living
The only recent article that she could find was about a Turkish translation of this instrument. That makes sense. I pushed her to check her assignment instructions - "did your instructor say you must use sources from the past 5 years?" - b/c that wouldn't make much sense and would make this assignment unnecessarily hard.
Nope. She checked with the instructor and got a fast response - there's no "five year rule" when these students are looking for information about a research instrument.
As always with nursing questions, feel free to forward them to me. Also I copied the guide to finding research instruments to this course guide: https://uncg.libguides.com/nur473
If you're curious and have time to keep reading, here's what I did:
1. Google searched the instrument title to get more info. Bingo, found another title that's commonly used: Katz ADL.
For bonus points, I also found a copy of the instrument (if she'd been looking for the instrument itself, I would have been careful to point out any permissions info, author contact info, or a website selling the instrument - it's not cool to steal)
2. From that libguide on research instruments, I checked a couple of databases for the name of the instrument, with no date limits set. Too many results, so I added a keyword for some of the info that she needed:
(Katz Index of independence in activities of daily living OR Katz ADL) AND reliability
3. There were some helpful looking older articles. Also lots of other versions of this instrument to wade through (ugh). CINAHL had the most helpful results, PubMed a close second
Again, feel free to refer and please let me know if you have questions.
Thanks,
Lea
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