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In the U4 activity ..... Review the strengths / weaknesses and relevence of this paper to your research question. Offer some conclusions based on this evaluation

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Dutheil, F., Aubert, C., Pereira, B., Dambrun, M., Moustafa, F., Mermillod, M., Baker, J. S., Trousselard, M., Lesage, F. X. and Navel, V. (2019) 'Suicide among physicians and health-care workers: A systematic review and meta-analysis', PLoS One, 14(12), pp. e0226361.

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Paper 1 Strengths of this research & its methodology / methods

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Paper 1 Strengths of this research & its methodology / methods

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1) The method of systematic review and meta-analysis can generate integrated evidence from findings in diverse studies.

2) It can help identify areas where more studies are needed (Finckh and Tramèr, 2008). (in this case, why US physicians are at higher risk than rest of the world, etc.)

Reference

Finckh, A. and Tramèr, M. R. (2008) 'Primer: strengths and weaknesses of meta-analysis', Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology, 4(3), pp. 146-152.

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Robert Sookoo

Olfson, M. et al. (2023) “Suicide Risks of Health Care Workers in the US,” JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, 330(12), pp. 1161–1166. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2023.15787

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Paper 2: Strengths of this research and its methodology/methods

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Paper 2: Strengths of this research and its methodology/methods

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Robert Sookoo

1) cohort study/observational study

2) cohort was identified within the Mortality Disparities in American Communities (MDAC) data set linked to a National Death Index. 1,842 000 participants who were aged 26 years or older were selected

3) strength therefore of large sample, opportunity to immediately analysis data, and it is inexpensive, (Lam et al, 2020), large numbers of participants increase generalisability; data is gathered in real life conditions (Armstrong, 2012).

References

Armstrong, K. (2012) Methods in comparative effectiveness research. Journal in Clinical Oncology. Dec 1;30(34):4208-142012. Available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3504326/. Accessed 18 February 2024.

Lam, K. Bacon, C. Sauers, E. and Bay, R. (2020) Point-of-Care Clinical Trials in Sports Medicine Research: Identifying Effective Treatment Interventions Through Comparative Effectiveness Research. Journal of Athletic Training. 2020 Mar;55(3):217-228. Available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7093921/, Accessed 17 February 2024

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The investigator relinquished control over data collection methods by using an electronic data base and the sample is not randomised (Lam et al, 2020)

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In essence it confirms higher suicide rates but suggests little is know about specific factors for a number of reasons though it suggests some at a very broad level which begs the question about the need for follow on research at some stage if this is a consistent view in the literature. i.e. if we cannot sufficiently isolate specific factors and there is no consensus what these are we must ask/investigate what are the specific set of healthcare worker risk factors. How are they different from the rest of the non healthcare workforce? Then what can be done about it. We could also test (in the future) the theory of whether there are specific factors or does the job exacerbate generic factors. The RQ is generating many other RQs in my head.

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Paper 1 Limitations / weaknesses of this research & its methodology / methods

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Paper 1 Limitations / weaknesses of this research & its methodology / methods

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1) Self-report bias (Dutheil et al., 2019)

2) Publication bias (Finckh and Tramèr, 2008)

References

Dutheil, F., Aubert, C., Pereira, B., Dambrun, M., Moustafa, F., Mermillod, M., Baker, J. S., Trousselard, M., Lesage, F. X. and Navel, V. (2019) 'Suicide among physicians and health-care workers: A systematic review and meta-analysis', PLoS One, 14(12), pp. e0226361.

Finckh, A. and Tramèr, M. R. (2008) 'Primer: strengths and weaknesses of meta-analysis', Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology, 4(3), pp. 146-152.

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Paper 1 Evaluation of the relevance of this paper to your research question

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Paper 1 Evaluation of the relevance of this paper to your research question

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This systematic review includes not only studies in the US but also other countries. It is related to the RQ, however differences in contextual factors in each country need to be considered when using this evidence for decision making in the US <Naomi>

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Strength: This paper included fair amount of articles, which draw larger sample size over the world.

Limitation: Due to larger sample size over different studies, there may be inconsistent in data collection process and language use. Different countries have different health care systems, which may lead to different stressors. This is a variable that was not taking into consideration.

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1. The study by (Dutheil et al., 2019) supports the findings that females are more at risk of suicide than males, supporting the Olfson study 2023 of US female healthcare workers. The advantage of the meta-analysis study is that researchers go through several research studies assessing the trends in several pieces of research to give accurate evidence.  Patience Panganai

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1. The study by (Dutheil et al., 2019) supports the findings that females are more at risk of suicide than males, supporting the Olfson study 2023 of US female healthcare workers. The advantage of the meta-analysis study is that researchers go through several research studies assessing the trends in several pieces of research to give accurate evidence.  Patience Panganai