Finding, Evaluating and Applying Evidence: Written Assignment

Written assignment: Finding, evaluating & applying evidence

Weight: 50%

Task

Part A: Finding evidence, evaluating evidence, making recommendations-

In this assignment you are required to choose one of the original research that you provided a citation for and a link for from the first assignment (Written Online tests Part A).

Consider each of these scenarios from practice:

1. You are a member of the health team in rural community health. Mrs Johnson, who is the carer of her husband who has advanced COPD, is seeking strategies to reduce his anxiety.

• Identify the scenario, provide a citation for the article and also provide the search terms and search parameters used to obtain the article .
• Identify whether the article is reporting on a qualitative piece of research or a quantitative piece of research or mixed methods, or a systematic review.
  (NB please do not use discussion articles, literature reviews or protocol papers).
• Read the article and then summarise your own views/critique of the article. Identify why you chose the article and why it will be a valuable and reliable source of evidence. Use the literature on critiquing research article to support your ideas.
  Ensure in your answer that you cover the following points:
  • Is it trustworthy? Can you believe it?
  • What impact does it have? Is it clinically important?
• Attach the article as a separate document.
• Now evaluate the article using an appropriate CASP Tool (see learning modules for CASP information resources and Chapter 12 in the text)for the type of article that you choose. (Hint: as well as a brief overview of how your article does or does not meet the relevant CASP criteria you should in your discussion address each of the CASP criteria/heading/points).

Part B: Knowledge translation

• Discuss how evidence can be applied in the clinical context with particular reference to the article that you have found. Your discussion should also include how application of evidence into practice be evaluated with reference specifically to the evidence you have found? (Hint:Chapters 15, 16 &17 will help with this section).

Structure and presentation

This assignment is a piece of academic writing and needs to be structured as such, with an introduction(Hint: the article you chose and identifying the type of research it reports on would be a useful introduction), body-this would be your initial appraisal of the article plus a more formal structured appraisal using a CASP tool, conclusion (Hint: allow word allocation from Part B to do a conclusion) and sub-headings as needed. Use the marking criteria to guide you with respect to aspects of presentation and formatting of this assignment.