You are to choose 3 primary research articles to review – your analysis MUST consist of the following sections:
• Type of study
o Analyse the study designs used by the researchers.
o What are their strengths and limitations?
o Where do they fit in the hierarchy of evidence?
o Was the design appropriate for the aims of the researcher?
o If not, what other design(s) would have been more appropriate, and why?
• Ethics –
o What is ethics and why is it important in research?
o Have the study authors mentioned ethics?
o Did they get ethical approval?
o If ethics has not been mentioned, why might this be? Was the study published in a peer review journal?
o If so, what does this mean, is it a good thing?
