Writer’s choice

Instructions: For the two article attached, write a brief summarized description of the following questions below. **Two pages per article** 1) Journal Name and Year Published 2) General Epidemiology of the Issue 3) Identify the study purpose 4) Identify the study hypothesis(ses) (reviews or meta-analyses will not have this) – Describe the population assessed – location, study groups/arms – What was the inclusion and exclusion criteria of the study – What was the Final study sample size 5) What study design was used? – Identify primary and/or secondary study design (cross sectional studies) 6) Statistical techniques used? 7) Describe the main findings – Summarize main findings – What measures were used? RR, OR, prevalence rates? – Do they seem plausible, strong or weak? Why? 8) Any bias or error in the study? – Sample too small? Not well-designed? Recall bias? Etc … 9) What are the strengths and weaknesses of paper (s)? – What did you like? – What would you have done differently? 10) What is the conclusion/summary of the paper – what did the authors conclude about their hypotheses?