Context:
This assessment requires you to apply the knowledge
and skills gained in all the modules to undertake a critical appraisal.
You will need to appraise 3 articles of a topic and research question
given to you by your facilitator.
1. Search the library database
to find three studies that answer your research question. All three
studies must be of different study designs. For instance, you could
include case control, cohort and RCTs. These studies do not have to
prove their hypothesis or agree with each other. Please note that marks
will be deducted if all identified papers are of similar study.
2.
Critically appraise all three articles you found. Your answers are to be
written in the tables provided to you which was based on CASP checklist
and other types of checklist.
3. In the table, you are required to answer either “Yes”, “No”, “Unclear”.
4.
For each of the answer of “Yes”, “No” or “Unclear”, you will need to
provide the “Evidence” that you found in the article to support your
answers.
5. For each of the “Evidence”, you will need to critically
appraise stating your justification, compare and contrasting or/and
providing solution.
Please see table for an example of how “evidence” is written.