Advanced concepts in research: methodology and methods
Assignment: Research protocol/Project proposal
Literature Review* – approximately 1500 words
Identify a topic for your review and write the research question that your review will answer.
Develop a search strategy for your review: inclusion and exclusion criteria, search terms, databases to search. You may find it helpful to use PICO(S) or similar tool.
Complete your search, keeping records of the number of results and use these to populate a PRISMA flow chart.
Decide how you are going to critically appraise the papers which meet your inclusion criteria.
Read and critically appraise each included paper, keeping notes of key critical points and the findings from each paper. Your critique should enable you to draw conclusions about the strength of the findings.
Compare findings/results across studies and write a synthesis of these in each relevant area. This synthesis should provide a concise summary of the state and strength of the evidence in the area.
