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ACNAP Young Community (YoCo) Educational/Research Toolkit

As a community that focuses on the needs of young cardiovascular nurses and allied professionals, ACNAP Young Community (YoCo) has developed the YoCo Educational/Research Toolkit.

The toolkit is an online platform where you can find different resources and tools that address several research-related topics within the cardiovascular area, to support the young members of ACNAP and the ESC in their career development.



Methods

Topic Link Resource
Non-randomized studies
bias
Philip Moons, Propensity weighting: how to minimise comparative bias in non-randomised studies?, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Volume 19, Issue 1, 1 January 2020, Pages 83–88 EJCN Methods Corner
Complex interventions Markus Saarijärvi, Lars Wallin, Ewa-Lena Bratt, Process evaluation of complex cardiovascular interventions: How to interpret the results of my trial?, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Volume 19, Issue 3, 1 March 2020, Pages 269–274 EJCN Methods Corner
Literature review
Meta-analysis
Todd Ruppar, Meta-analysis: How to quantify and explain heterogeneity?, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Volume 19, Issue 7, 1 October 2020, Pages 646–652 EJCN Methods Corner
Observational studies Koen Raymaekers, Koen Luyckx, Philip Moons, A guide to improve your causal inferences from observational data, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Volume 19, Issue 8, 1 December 2020, Pages 757–762 EJCN Methods Corner
Flash mob studies Philip Moons, Flash mob studies: a novel method to accelerate the research process, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 2021 EJCN Methods Corner
Mixed methods Victoria Vaughan Dickson, Shayleigh Dickson Page, Using mixed methods in cardiovascular nursing research: Answering the why, the how, and the what’s next, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 82–89 EJCN Methods Corner
Multilevel
Dyadic research
Philip Moons, Sofie Prikken, Koen Luyckx, Chronic illness as a ‘family disease’: The need for appropriate scientific methods for dyadic research, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Volume 19, Issue 2, 1 February 2020, Pages 98–99 EJCN
Ethical challenges Donna Fitzsimons, Patricia H Strachan, Overcoming the challenges of conducting research with people who have advanced heart failure and palliative care needs, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Volume 11, Issue 2, 1 June 2012, Pages 248–254 EJCN
Measurement criteria Martha H Mackay, Pamela A Ratner, Michelle Nguyen, Myra Percy, Paul Galdas, Gilat Grunau, Inconsistent measurement of acute coronary syndrome patients’ pre-hospital delay in research: A review of the literature, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Volume 13, Issue 6, 1 December 2014, Pages 483–493 EJCN
Qualitative research Carley Turner, Felicity Astin, Grounded theory: what makes a grounded theory study?, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2021, Pages 285–289 EJCN Methods Corner
Markus Saarijärvi, Ewa-Lena Bratt, When face-to-face interviews are not possible: tips and tricks for video, telephone, online chat, and email interviews in qualitative research, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Volume 20, Issue 4, April 2021, Pages 392–396 EJCN Methods Corner
Reviews Philip Moons, Eva Goossens, David R. Thompson, Rapid reviews: the pros and cons of an accelerated review process, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Volume 20, Issue 5, June 2021, Pages 515–519 EJCN Methods Corner

Data collection

Topic Link Resource
Electronic records usage Daniel Kompe. Data: the new gold. In: ESC Digital Summit 2019 - Session: Cybersecurity and data science. (Only available to ESC Professional Members) ESC 365

Data analysis

Topic Link Resource
Multilevel analysis
Dyadic analysis
Karen S Lyons, Christopher S Lee, Understanding the family care dyad: A comparison of two multilevel models, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Volume 19, Issue 2, 1 February 2020, Pages 178–184 EJCN Methods Corner
Subgroups analysis
Latent class mixture modeling
Christopher S Lee, Kenneth M Faulkner, Jessica H Thompson, Identifying subgroups: Part 1: Patterns among cross-sectional data, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Volume 19, Issue 4, 1 April 2020, Pages 359–365 EJCN Methods Corner
Subgroups analysis
Latent growth mixture modeling
Christopher S Lee, Kenneth M Faulkner, Jessica H Thompson, Identifying subgroups: Part 2: Trajectories of change over time, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Volume 19, Issue 5, 1 June 2020, Pages 444–450 EJCN Methods Corner

Research basis

Topic Link Resource
Cardiovascular care research guidance on topic or methods Tiny Jaarsma, Christi Deaton, Donna Fitzsimmons, Bengt Fridlund, Bjarne M Hardig, Romy Mahrer-Imhof, Philip Moons, Samar Noureddine, Sharon O’Donnell, Susanne S Pedersen, Simon Stewart, Anna Strömberg, David R Thompson, Yasemin Tokem, Barbro Kjellström, Research in cardiovascular care: A position statement of the Council on Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professionals of the European Society of Cardiology, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1 February 2014, Pages 9–21 EJCN

Publication

Topic Link Resource
Writing and publishing research Ioulia Grapsa. How to get your research abstract/ clinical case accepted?, In: ESC Asia 2019, Special Session: “Tips and tricks: How to make your research more visible”. (Available with a My ESC account) ESC 365
Tomasz Guzik. How to write a successful manuscript? In: ESC Asia 2019, Special Session: “Tips and tricks: How to make your research more visible”. (Only available to ESC Professional Members) ESC 365
Research visibility and presentation Sofian Johar. How to achieve an excellent powerpoint presentation? In: ESC Asia 2019, Special Session: “Tips and tricks: How to make your research more visible”. (Only available to ESC Professional Members) ESC 365
Vijayalakshmi Kunadian. Become a good speaker. ESC Professional Members Special Sessions. (Only available to ESC Professional Members) ESC website