Are the primary outcome results of your study article statistically significant?

Description HLTH3098 Research Methods in Health Sciences 1 Module 8 (Appraising Evidence) Class Activity S21_v1_06JAN2021 Module 8 (Appraising Evidence) – Class Activity You’re only a couple weeks away from your journal club presentation! Throughout the semester, you read and interpreted different aspects of your Journal Club article. Today you will appraise the strengths and limitations of your article. This is a group activity. Only ONE member of your group is required to upload the activity on Canvas. 1) Appraise your article using the PEDro Scale, from Module 8, Lecture 2. For each PEDro Scale item, specify the section (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Table or Figure) and page number where you found the information. The PEDro Scale is most useful for randomized control trials, but you still need to complete this activity even if your article describes a non-experimental study. 2) Go to the Methods section of your article. Does your article have a sample size justification (e.g. calculation)? If yes, include this information in your presentation. 3) Go to the Discussion section of your article. Read this section for “limitations” of the study. Create a list of the limitations described in the Discussion section. Do the authors identify sample size as a limitation? If no, are you concerned about the study being limited by low sample size? Now look for a section in the Discussion that discusses the strengths of the study. Do you agree with these strengths? 4) Clinically meaningful vs Statistical significance. By now you have drafted your Results Section of your Journal Club PowerPoint presentation and should understand the results quite well. Are the primary outcome results of your study article statistically significant?  Is the result clinically meaningful? Depending upon your study, you may look at change in outcome values or differences between groups. Clinical meaning can be based on many different perspectives so there may be no right or wrong answer here. Does the article discuss clinical meaning? 5) Draft your PPT slide “Appraisal” (ONE SLIDE) with your appraisal of the strengths and limitations of your article.