Assignment Task

Assessment description:

Assessment 3 builds on your work in the discussion boards (Assessment 2). For this assessment, you will be evaluating four recent journal articles related to your clinical question which is “Does type 2 diabetics patient achieve better glucose control with physical activity as their primary treatment compared to type 2 diabetics patient treated with medication therapy?” You will do this by summarising and evaluating the articles in an annotated bibliography.

Questioin:

(1) What was the study design of the article: qualitative or quantitative? And which type of qualitative or quantitative study?


(2) What was the aim of the research?

(3) How was the study conducted?

(4) What were the results of the study and did the study answer the study question/aim?

(5) What are the methodological strengths and limitations of the study?

(6) How can further improve the methodological quality of the study?