Hlsc122 inquiry in health care assessment task - evaluating

Question

Inquiry in Health Care Assessment Task - EVALUATING the usefulness of evidence

Scenario

Mariana is a first year health sciences student at an Australian university. As a single mother with an 18 month old daughter, she is concerned she might find it difficult to mix with other students as her priorities will be different. She had a difficult childbirth and her daughter suffers from severe asthma. When Mariana is at university her daughter attends the local child care centre. Mariana herself suffers from diabetes and a rare blood disorder. Mariana has limited family support and lives in a small unit a bus ride away from the university.

You know that you must appraise the quality of each paper and you would like to know which of the two papers provided is most relevant to Mariana regarding stress reduction and mood improvement.

Paper 1.

von Haaren, B., Haertel, S., Stumpp, J., Hey, S., & Ebner-Priemer, U. (2015). Reduced emotional stress reactivity to a real-life academic examination stressor in students participating in a 20-week aerobic exercise training: A randomised controlled trial using Ambulatory Assessment.

Psychology Of Sport & Exercise, 20, 67-75. Retrieved from

https://ezproxy.acu.edu.au/login?url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1469

029215000357

Paper 2.

Kim, J., Yang, H., & Schroeppel, S. (2013). A Pilot Study Examining the Effects of Kouk Sun Do on University Students with Anxiety Symptoms. Stress & Health: Journal Of The International Society For

The Investigation Of Stress, 29(2), 99-107. Retrieved from

https://ezproxy.acu.edu.au/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smi.2431

CONTENT - Topics will include:

1. Evidenced Based Health Care

• Need for information and evidence
• Notion of best available evidence
• Best practice guidelines
• Continuous quality improvement
• Ethical application of evidence

2. Types of knowledge, their development and application

• Emancipatory
• Ethical
• Personal
• Aesthetic
• Empiric

3. Sources of knowledge and their application

• Formal
• Informal

4. Methods of inquiry in health and their application

• Types of health research
• Critical evaluation of the research process including methodology, data analysis and presentation of findings
• Application of inquiry in evidence-based health care including public health, health protocols, best practice.
• Cochrane Collaboration
• Joanna Briggs Institute

5. Clinical reasoning

• Reflecting, analysing and problem-solving
• Critical thinking
• Clinical judgement (technical and situation based judgement)
• Quality care management

Attachment:- Outline.rar