Please use the quality criteria checklist and answer all questions on a selected journal article based on your topic. (article must be from PubMed)
DIRECTIONS: Please use the quality criteria checklist and answer all questions on a selected journal article based on your topic. (article must be from PubMed)
Topic: Is smoking cigarettes during pregnancy a potential cause of offspring ADHD?
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| Quality Criteria Checklist: Primary Research Validity Questions | EVIDENCE WORKSHEET SCORE: _________ | ||||||||||||
| Journal Article Title ___________________________________________________ | |||||||||||||
| Journal Article First Author _________________________________________________ | |||||||||||||
| Publication Year: __________________________________________ | |||||||||||||
| Journal Published: _______________________________________________________ | |||||||||||||
| Name of Primary Reviewer: _________________________________________________ | |||||||||||||
| Directions for Reviewers. For each Journal Article included in the systematic reviews, use one checklist. There are 30 questions | |||||||||||||
| related to the quality of the study. Check Yes, No, Unclear or (N/A) for each question. Then score yes responses as 1. | |||||||||||||
| No and unclear responses are scored with 0. N/A is not scored. Sum the responses and divide by the total number of questions answered. | |||||||||||||
| YES | NO | UNCLEAR | N/A | ||||||||||
| 1. Research question | |||||||||||||
| 1.1 Was the research question clearly stated? | |||||||||||||
| 1.2 Was the authors' alternative hypothesis clear? | |||||||||||||
| 1.3 Was the target population and setting specified and appropriate? | |||||||||||||
| 2. Selection of study subjects | |||||||||||||
| 2.1 Were the inclusion/exclusion criteria specified with sufficient detail? | |||||||||||||
| 2.3 Did the exclusion criteria NOT pertain to the main exposure or the main outcome? | |||||||||||||
| 2.4 Was the study sample representative of the target population? | |||||||||||||
| 3. Response Rate | |||||||||||||
| 3.1 Were the response rates described? | |||||||||||||
| 3.2 Did response rates NOT differ by characteristics associated with the disease or exposure? | |||||||||||||
| 3.3 Did authors attempt to characterize the portion that did not participate? | |||||||||||||
| 4. Was the method for handling withdrawals described? | |||||||||||||
| 4.1 Were follow-up methods described with sufficient detail? | |||||||||||||
| 4.2 Was lost to follow-up NOT differential between the diseased groups? | |||||||||||||
| 4.3 Were lost to follow-up NOT related to the main exposure? | |||||||||||||
| YES | NO | UNCLEAR | N/A | ||||||||||
| 5. Was blinding used to prevent the introduction of bias? | |||||||||||||
| 5.1 For intervention studies, were subjects and others blinded to treatment groups? | |||||||||||||
| 5.2 Were the methods for assigning subject to groups described as randomly assigned? | |||||||||||||
| 5.3 Was there NO evidence of non-compliance? | |||||||||||||
| 6. Can causation be observed by the investigator? | |||||||||||||
| 6.1 Does the study design allow the investigator to infer causality? | |||||||||||||
| 6.2 Is the length of follow-up sufficient to produce an effect? | |||||||||||||
| 6.3 Did the exposure precede the disease? | |||||||||||||
| 7. Exposure and outcomes | |||||||||||||
| 7.1 Were primary outcomes and exposures described and relevant to the question? | |||||||||||||
| 7.2 Were the exposure measurements based on valid data collection instruments? | |||||||||||||
| 7.5 Was there NO potential for misclassification of the exposure? | |||||||||||||
| 8. Confounders | |||||||||||||
| 8.1 Were other factors (confounders) related to the disease and exposure identified? | |||||||||||||
| 8.2 Were appropriate methods used to control for confounders? | |||||||||||||
| 8.3 Did authors discuss residual confounding? | |||||||||||||
| 9. Statistical analysis | |||||||||||||
| 9.1 Were statistical analyses adequately described? | |||||||||||||
| 9.2 Were measures of effects reported with levels of significance or confidence intervals? | |||||||||||||
| 9.3 Was clinical significance as well as statistical significance reported? | |||||||||||||
| 10. Conclusions | |||||||||||||
| 10.1 Are the conclusions adequately supported by findings in tables and figures? | |||||||||||||
| 10.2 Are biases and limitations adequately discussed? | |||||||||||||
| 10.3 Were there no apparent conflicts of interest? | |||||||||||||
| RIGOR WORKSHEET SCORING EVALUATION | |||||||||||||
| 80-100% is a rigorous study | |||||||||||||
| 70-80% is a marginally rigorous study *as long as 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3 are yes. | |||||||||||||
| 70% or lower is not a rigorous study |
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