Context: This assessment requires you to apply the knowledge and skills gained in all the modules to...

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Context: This assessment requires you to apply the knowledge and skills gained in all the modules to undertake a critical appraisal. You will need to appraise 3 articles of a topic and research question given to you by your facilitator.1. Search the library database to find three studies that answer your research question. All three studies must be of different study designs. For instance, you could include case control, cohort and RCTs. These studies do not have to prove their hypothesis or agree with each other. Please note that marks will be deducted if all identified papers are of similar study.2. Critically appraise all three articles you found. Your answers are to be written in the tables provided to you which was based on CASP checklist and other types of checklist.3. In the table, you are required to answer either “Yes”, “No”, “Unclear”.4. For each of the answer of “Yes”, “No” or “Unclear”, you will need to provide the “Evidence” that you found in the article to support your answers.5. For each of the “Evidence”, you will need to critically appraise stating your justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution. Please see table for an example of how “evidence” is written.

Table 1 Cross-sectional study: (Insert the title of the paper you are appraising)
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
1.Were the criteria for inclusion in the sample clearly defined?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
2.Were the study subjects and the setting described in detail?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
3.Was the exposure measured in a valid and reliable way?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
4.Were objective, standard criteria used for measurement of the condition?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
5.Were confounding factors identified?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
6.Were strategies to deal with confounding factors stated?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
7.Were the outcomes measured in a valid and reliable way?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
8.Was appropriate statistical analysis used?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*

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Table 2 Case-control study: (Insert the title of the paper you are appraising)
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
1.Did the study address a clearly focused issue?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
2. Did the authors use an appropriate method to answer their question?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
3. Were the cases recruited in an acceptable way?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
4. Were the controls selected in an acceptable way?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
5. Was the exposure accurately measured to minimise bias?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*

Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
6. Aside from the experimental intervention, were the groups treated equally?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
7. Have the authors taken account of the potential confounding factors in the design and/or in their analysis?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
8. How large was the treatment effect?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
9. How precise was the estimate of the treatment effect?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
10. Do you believe the results?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
11. Can the results be applied to the local population?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
12. Do the results of this study fit with other available evidence?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*

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Table 3 Cohort study: (Insert the title of the paper you are appraising)
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
1.Did the study address a clearly focused issue?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
2.Was the cohort recruited in an acceptable way?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
3.Was the exposure accurately measured to minimise bias?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
4.Was the outcome accurately measured to minimise bias?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
5(a)Have the authors identified all important confounding factors?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
5(b)Have they taken account of the confounding factors in the design and/or analysis?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
6(a)Was the follow up of subjects complete enough?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
6(b)Was the follow up of subjects long enough?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
7.What are the results of this study?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
8.How precise are the results?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
9.Do you believe the results?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
10.Can the results be applied to the local population?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
11.Do the results of this study fit with other available evidence?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
12.What are the implications of this study for practice?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*

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Table 3 Randomised controlled trial: (Insert the title of the paper you are appraising)
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
1. Did the trial address a clearly focused issue?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
2. Was the assignment of patients to treatments randomised?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
3. Were all of the patients who entered the trial properly accounted for at its conclusion?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
4.Were patients, health workers and study personnel ‘blind’ to treatment?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
5.Were the groups similar at the start of the trial?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
6.Aside from the experimental intervention, were the groups treated equally?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
7.How large was the treatment effect?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
8.How precise was the estimate of the treatment effect?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
9.Can the results be applied to the local population, or in your context?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
10.Were all clinically important outcomes considered?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*
Critical appraisal questions	Underline your answer
11.Are the benefits worth the harms and costs?	Yes/No/Unclear
Evidence: *justification, compare and contrasting or/and providing solution*

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Table 1 Cross-sectional study: (Associations between obesogenic risk and depressive symptomatology in Australian adolescents)
	Critical appraisal questions
	Underline your answer
	1.Were the criteria for inclusion in the sample clearly defined?
	Yes/No/Unclear
	Evidence: This study was based on the data collected from ‘Australian Capital Territory its Your Move project’. Questionnaire was designed and a cut-off score ≥10 was considered as indicative of symptomatic depression.
	Critical appraisal questions
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	2.Were the study subjects and the setting described in detail?
	Yes/No/Unclear
	Evidence: This study was conducted on 800 students (440 females, 360 males) from the age group 11–14 years (M=13.11 years, SD=0.62 years) and these belonged to overall 6 secondary schools. Likewise, the questionnaire prepared included physical activity, dietary intake and sedentary behaviour. Later,

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