The Enquiry Individual activity - for assessment
This 1500 word essay will allow you to demonstrate your understanding of appraising evidence (i.e., step 3 of the 5-step approach to evidence-based practice). You will demonstrate your ability to identify issues with research design, validity and bias in peer-reviewed publications.
In Enquiry 1 you completed a search for evidence related to a chosen clinical scenario. In this assessment task you will be appraising a research article related to your scenario (hopefully you found this article as part of your search!).
My scenario is - Glucosamine
Glucosamine scenario: Belcaro, G., Dugall, M., Luzzi, R., Ledda, A., Pellegrini, L., Cesarone, M. R., ... & Errichi, M. (2014). Meriva (R)+ Glucosamine versus Condroitin+ Glucosamine in patients with knee osteoarthritis: an observational study. European Review for Medical & Pharmacological Sciences, 18(24), 3959-3963.
Essay question
This 1500 word essay will require you to assess the quality of your allocated article. In doing this you will be asked to:
- Briefly summarise the nature, aims and hypothesis/es of the study.
- Summarise the methods used in the study, including participants, materials and basic procedure.
- Detail the main findings of the study and whether the hypothesis was supported.
- Identify potential threats to internal and external validity in the research design.
- In conclusion, propose some suggestions as to how threats to validity could have been resolved so that the research outcomes could have been better applied to the health-related field being discussed in the article.
Attachment:- Assignment Files.rar