Purpose The purpose of this assignment is to practice critically evaluating a research article and ...

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Purpose The purpose of this assignment is to practice critically evaluating a research article and to begin work on your final project. With your chosen article from last week, you will answer the questions for your final critical analysis. Task 1.Use the article you chose last week from the given list for your critical analysis. You will continue to work with this same article for the rest of the course. 2.When you're ready to submit, come back to this page and UPLOAD 2 THINGS: oUpload a PDF of your article. This is required so I can provide specific, helpful feedback for understanding your study. Criteria for Success The article you chose is a randomized controlled trial or a clinical trial. Other types of articles will not meet your needs for the final analysis, because they will not include all the components we will evaluate. Your study has a defined intervention. The authors are testing a hypothesis (what happens if we do this?), not merely looking for observational data. Your article is a primary analysis of an original study. Sometimes researchers like to do a secondary analysis of data after an original study is complete, to tease out more details from the original study. However, similar to before, these types of studies will not include all the components we need to evaluate and thus will not be appropriate for our project. Your article describes only one study unlike a Meta-analyses or systematic reviews. Tips You may need to find the supplemental material for your article in order to answer some of the questions. Some information may not be in the main body of the article, but will be shared in the study supplements. Study supplements are easiest to find on the journal web page where you obtained the article. When the full text is viewable on the article's web page, scroll down and look for hyperlinks like those highlighted in the screenshots below. Supplemental materials may also be labeled as appendices, study protocol, or other names. Again, look for hyperlinks within the article.