What is explained in the analysis of data portion in the research paper. - ✔1. How the data
will be managed
2. Description of study variables
3. Description of statistical analyses
Ethical considerations to be addressed in research paper? - ✔1. Compensation and cost
to participants
2. Risks
3. Benefits
4. Informed consent procedure
5. Confidentiality of data
Citation & reference list requirements in research proposal - ✔1. Ensure work is correctly
and adequately referenced
2. One citation style throughout
3. can use reference management software
,What is a literature review? - ✔The comprehensive study and interpretation of literature
that addresses a specific topic
Ways to organize a lit review paper - ✔Organize according to a guiding concept such as...
1. Problem/issue you want to address
2. Research question or hypothesis
3. Specific aims of a research study
Purpose of the lit review? - ✔1. Introduction to area of research
2. Gives overall picture of what is known about the topic
3. IDs gaps in research
4. Provides evidence that your research Q is unique (or not)
5. Answers a specific Q
6. Gives evidence-based practice??
Definition, Evidence-based practice - ✔Conscientious, explicit and judicious use of
current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients
(appropriate application of research knowledge to practice)
When does publication bias occur? - ✔When published studies are not representative of
all studies that have been done
--Published studies tend to have positive findings
Critical appraisal of a paper - ✔1. Structured process of determining strengths/weaknesses
2. Examine validity of the study
3. Examine the reliability of the study
4. Familiarity w/the research method
, Summary of findings - ✔Summarize attributes of relevant studies
Organize info & relate to research Q
Combined critical review
Target population AKA.. - ✔Reference population or external population
Definition of target population - ✔Large set of ppl. to which study findings will be
generalized, population of interest
Source population AKA... - ✔Accessible population, parent population, sampled population
Source population definition - ✔Geographically & temporally defined subset of
target population available for study
Study sample AKA... - ✔Study population, intended sample
Study sample definition - ✔Subset of source population that you want to include in the
study, the actual subjects
When response of study sample is 100% - ✔actual study subjects = study sample
Internal validity is... - ✔1. done w/o major methodologic problems
2. when the results are valid for members of the source population
Internal validity allows us to... - ✔make unbiased inferences about the association of
interest in the source population
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