Reference no: EM133506606
Assignment:
Yun et al., A randomized controlled trial of physical activity, dietary habit, and distress management with the leadership and coaching for health (LEACH) program for disease-free cancer survivors.
1. What type of experimental study is this? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this type of study?
2. Why was this study done? Does the literature review make a convincing argument for doing this study?
3. How were the subjects chosen? What were the inclusion and exclusion criteria as described in the paper?
4. Why do you think they chose this recruitment strategy? How might the choice of participants affect the generalizability of the findings?
5. What was the primary study endpoint? Did they use additional endpoints? At what point in time were the endpoints measured?
6. What is the major finding (or findings) of this study? Was the intervention effective?
7. Were there substantial dropout and/or non-adherence rates? How might they have affected the study findings?
8. What lends credence to the current findings? What do you think of the authors' explanations of these findings?