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| ETHICS: (approx. 300 words in total) | 10 |
| OBTAINING CONSENT: Describe the process that the researchers would have to implement to obtain consent for a pregnant woman to participate in the study. | |
| OBTAINING ETHICAL APPROVAL: Describe two other areas of the study procedures (not including ‘obtaining consent’) that a ‘Research Ethics Committee’ may have concerns about and explain what the researchers could have done to address these concerns. | |
SECTION 1: RESEARCH DESIGN REPORT
| RISK OF BIAS: (approx. 200 words) | 10 |
| The researchers used ‘individual person’ randomisation within each GP surgery, meaning women attending the same surgery could be allocated to either the ‘usual advice only’ group or the. An alternative approach that was discussed could have been cluster randomisation, where each entire GP surgery would be randomised only one of the intervention groups (half the surgeries would provide the ‘usual advice only’ intervention and the other half would provide the ‘strength exercise kit + usual advice’ intervention). Identify and explain the main source of bias that could occur with the individual-level randomisation approach (used by the researchers) and how cluster randomisation at the surgery-level could reduce this bias. | |
SECTION 2: DATA ANALYSIS REPORT
| STATISTICAL METHODS: (approx. 350 words in total) | 10 |
| Main Statistical ANALYSIS: Describe and justify the omnibus statistical test that you are applying to the data (e.g. the ANOVA) | |
| ASSUMPTIONS OF MAIN STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Describe how you checked/ tested the assumptions of the ANOVA you have used. Support technical terms with ‘lay terms’ descriptions. | |
| STATISTICAL RESULTS: (approx. 350 words in total) | 15 |
| ASSUMPTIONS OF MAIN STATISTICAL TESTS: Report the findings of the checks/tests of assumptions and what action, if any, was taken due to these findings. | |
| Main Statistical test: Report the results of your ANOVA using the appropriate statistical format/notation and in ‘lay terms’ where necessary. | |
| POST-HOC STATISTICAL TESTS: (approx. 250 words in total) | 15 |
| Describe and justify your choice of post-hoc tests, and report and interpret the findings of them. | |
| TABLE & GRAPH: maximum of 1 table & 1 graph. (equiv. 500 words) | 10 |
| Provide a maximum of one table and one graph to illustrate key findings. SPSS tables often contain much more information than you will need, the table you include in this section should only contain relevant information. Label graphs so they are clear and easily interpretable. | |
| INTERPRETATION & RECOMMENDATIONS (approx. 250 words in total) | 10 |
| Summarise the interpretation of your post-hoc tests and, based solely of those results, make recommendations to… (i) the researchers – on how they could use these findings to modify a repeat of this study and (ii) policy makers – on how they could use the findings to help reduce the prevalence of gestational diabetes. | |
| REFERENCES FOR SECTIONS 1&2: | Part of the5 marks for General |
(Maximum of 6 in total)
Provide a list of references using Harvard style (this reference list is not included in your word count, although the in-text ‘Author/s (Year)’ references will.
| APPENDIX: (SPSS OUTPUT) | 5 |
Append all of your relevant SPSS output here (not included in word count). Make sure it is neat and well labelled.
