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Please complete the following activities within the Week 10/11 discussion forums to help illustrate and test your understanding of RCTs
Please complete the following activities within the Week 10/11 discussion forums to help illustrate and test your understanding of RCTs
Required Reading:
Required Reading:
Chapter 10: Bhattacherjee, A. (2012). Social science research: Principles, methods, and practices (2nd ed.). Textbooks Collection. Book 3. Retrieved from http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/oa_textbooks/3
Activity #1
Watch the video below to summarize the key features of RCTs. Write a brief summary of your understanding and outline the reasons why a RCT may or may not be useful.
Watch the video below to summarize the key features of RCTs. Write a brief summary of your understanding and outline the reasons why a RCT may or may not be useful.
Activity #2
Provide the class with a hypothetical example of your own randomized control trial study within your career.
Provide the class with a hypothetical example of your own randomized control trial study within your career.
Please answer the following questions:
Determine your problem/question
Determine the members of the control and intervention group
Determine your sample size
Determine what intervention will be used
Discuss possible limitations that could develop from your study
Additional Readings (Click Links Below)
Additional Readings (Click Links Below)
Respiratory virus shedding in exhaled breath and efficacy of face masks
Fool's gold? Why blinded trials are not always the best
Designing a research project: randomised controlled trials and their principles
Randomized controlled trials of socially complex nursing interventions: creating bias and unreliability?
Randomized Controlled Trials (UNICEF)
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