HEA102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dietitian, Blood Sugar, Rigour
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Week 10 notes evaluating evidence from qualitative research. When you are reading journal articles as part of your role in dietetics / human nutrition, you should find yourself questioning whether the results of the study are accurate and trustworthy. For example, if a journal article describes a new method for measuring blood glucose levels, then such a study must indicate whether the test has good test re-test reliability. If the results are neither accurate nor trustworthy, then you need to consider how this may impact on the way you undertake your work/practice (i. e. assess and manage participants in a study). Credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability: when studying evidence from qualitative research articles you need to decide whether the findings reported are trustworthy. You can judge the trustworthiness or authenticity of a qualitative research article by considering the following key criteria:
