Critiquing QUANTITATIVE research papers
|Question |Yes / No / Don’t know Comments |
|Background |
|Why was the study done? What clinical question did it address? | |
|What evidence or argument did the authors use to justify why the research| |
|was done? Were there gaps in the literature or inadequacies with previous| |
|methods? | |
|What are the research aims / research questions / hypotheses? | |
|Design and methods |
| What is the overall approach? Is it descriptive, experimental, | |
|evaluative/ analytical? | |
|Is the design appropriate? Could it have been carried out differently? | |
|What are the methods used to collect data? Has the author/s discussed | |
|reliability and validity? | |
|Has a pilot study been carried out? | |
|Ethical considerations |
|Has...