Answer the following questions after you read the entire research article:
- Who is/are the author(s)? What credentials do they have listed if any?
- What is the title of the study?
- What journal is this article get published?
- When was it published? Is it current enough (it is current if it is published within past 5 years)?
- What research design is this study? i.e epidemiological, case study, animal study, clinical trial etc. Refer to
your text Figure 1-5 to read upon more on more if needed. Research type usually can be found under
“methodology” section within the research article. - How many subjects involved in the study? Is the study large enough that we should pay a closer attention to
the results/findings? - Why do you think they conducted the study?
- Any conflict of interest statement released in the article or any potential conflict of interest that you see?
- Summarize what you learned from reading this article. Limit your answers to 50-100 words for this question.
- How the information you read might be helpful to you or someone else you know? Limit your answers to
50-100 words for this question.
PART 2 OF THE ASSIGNMENT
Go online to search an original peer-reviewed scientific journal article that is similar to the one you chose to
review (one of the four articles above listed) in Part 1 of this assignment.
For example: If you read “Long-Term Effects of 4 Popular Diets on Weight Loss and Cardiovascular Risk
Factors”. When you are ready to search a similar article, use key words such as diets, weight loss,
cardiovascular.
Write up a summary after you read the second article. Complete the following items in your summary:
Compare the two articles, discuss 2 things in common between the articles and 2 things that are different from
each other. ( 10 points)
Describe how you found/search the article for this assignment. (5 points)
Explain the experience and value of doing this assignment. How this experience might help you? (15 points)
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