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NURS 5152 Quantitative Design for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Research - University Of South Australia

Assessment Interpreting quantitative statistical techniques

Part A: Formulating a problem statement, research question and research hypothesis

1. Research topic/issue and problem:

Research Topic: To review the effects of the atenolol medicine as compared to regular exercise in reducing the blood pressure level in older adults.

Instructions
The purpose of your audiovisual presentation is to report a summary of your research findings and answer your research question presented in Part A of assignment one. Your intended audience should be to other healthcare professionals and policy decision- makers and therefore your findings should be presented using non-complex or complicated research terminology.

1. Prepare, record and upload a presentation, in which you:
- Introduce yourself, your clinical practice setting and your topic of inquiry
- Present your research question using the PICOT mnemonic
- Provide a summary of your research findings that answers your research question and describes the application of research findings to your clinical context.

Introduction
This assessment will assess your ability to critical. appraise and synthesise research using relevant appraisal. tools, interpret and apply study findings to an area of clinical practice, and your ability to clearly explain complex concepts in scientific knowledge in both written and verbal. forms of communication when reporting unfamiliar problems.

Question 1. State your research question

This section should state your research question (please remove this hint)

Question 2. Summary of critical appraisal
Using appropriate JBI critical appraisal checklists, summarise your critical appraisal findings of the three quantitative studies. Your summary should include a summary of the studies' aims, research hypotheses and the PICO/PECO concepts of each article. Your summary should also include a summary of the scientific rigour of each study, noting any particular strengths or limitations of the study designs(please remove this hint)

Question 3. Summary of statistical analysis
This section should include a summary of the statistical techniques used in each study. You should describe what descriptive and inferential techniques were used and what effect sizes were used (i.e., OR, RR or mean differences) (please remove this hint)

Question 4. Summarise study findings
This section should describe the results from each study. Your description should include an explanation of the effect sizes (i.e., RR or OR, or mean difference), the clinical significance (i.e., 95% confidence intervals, and whether the results were statistically significant (i.e., the p value) (please remove this hint)

References
Format your reference list using UniSA Harvard Referencing(please remove this hint)