(b) Enablers include accessibility of current research evidence, therapist’s motivation and ability to locate and assess research, supportive workplace culture and effective patient-therapist communication.
22. P – adults with limited trunk and lower limb mobility arising from multiple sclerosis
I – provision of an assistive technology
C – no provision of equipment
O – independence and safety in bedding adjustment in a home environment
23. (a) She is asking for a judgement about the validity and clinical relevance of the study findings. The validity of findings is evaluated by judging if the methodology is scientifically rigorous to imply a true association …show more content…
(a) It stands for Search, AppraisaL, Synthesis and Analysis.
(b) While systematic reviews conduct comprehensive searching for studies, searching is determined by time or scope constraints in scoping reviews. Additionally, systematic reviews appraise the quality of evidence and synthesise findings in a narrative format whereas scoping reviews do not include quality assessment and typically structure information in a tabular form. Furthermore, while systematic reviews analyse findings and recommendations for practice and future research, scoping reviews merely identify the quantity of literature and nature of evidence.
25. Quantitative research aims to establish associations between variables in a target population. Therefore, it collects numerical data that are suitable for statistical analyses and objectivity of the research data contributes to its scientific rigour. Qualitative research seeks to describe human experience or a social phenomenon. It collects and extracts concepts from non-numerical data, with its scientific rigour based on the degree to which the data are an accurate representation of the