Please help with assignment
Please use the information below (Protocol II) to guide your method section for review studies. Formulate data analysis plan
Please continue the protocol you started last term. This time you will focus on assessing study quality. Things to consider along with any others you think of, or come across in your readings: sample size, sample representativeness, publication date, reliability of measures, validity of methods.
Copy and paste this into a MS word document and complete it, then submit it to the drop box.
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Quality assessment
What criteria will be used to assess methodological quality (e. g., minimum sample size? Experimental design quality? Longitudinal design quality – if relevant; measures were all reliable and valid, per-reviewed, etc.)??
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How will quality assessment be performed? (I recommend adding a quality column in your word or excel table and putting the evaluation info there; you can also include a paragraph in your method about using only peer-reviewed articles using reliable measures (alpha = .70 or higher) and will evaluate any design issues if there are questions – unequal groups or not enough men, etc.).
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Data extraction (E. g., percentages of people from different genders experiencing depression, diagnosed with depression, displaying signs of depression or a variant of depression; raw depression scores or z-scores for depression-related mental illness; number of significant differences found across genders, et. Tell a good story, but a true and accurate one, with your data).
What are the key data to be extracted?
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How will data extraction be performed, and how will extracted data be presented? (Again, I recommend a table but depending on what you are showing, a graph could be interesting to show different symptoms – oh, an
