Methods Flashcards
What is a feasibility study?
Overarching term for preliminary studies conducted to estimate parameters needed to design a subsequent full study
Used to determine whether an intervention or methodological process is appropriate for further, larger, more definitive testing
Acceptability,
Recruitment
Retention, Practicability, Feasibility
Helps not to waste time, resources on larger studies
Why did you pick a feasibility study?
This study was the first of it’s kind at CCFC
The study aimed to assess parameters needed to design a larger scale, more definitive pilot study
Wanted to assess acceptability of intervention, timings, feasibility, practiability, limitations
How did you rationalise 2 years?
A 2 year prospective study by Haaglund, Walden and Ekstrand (2006) of 12 elite football teams showed that players who had been injured in the last 2 years had a 4.3x more likely chance of suffering a groin injury
Limitations
Non blinding or randomisation of sample
1 test, no test/re-test
Only tested sagittal ROMm look at hip joint ROM in frontal plane also
Prospective study
How did you pick the control group?
Similar to Nevin and Delahunt’s study (2014), we sample matched the injury group with healthy controls. In future, we would randomly pick the controls and blind ourselves to them.
What philosophy is your research?
Pragmatist
Why is your research pragmatist?
Deals with the facts
Does not belong to any philosophical system
Researchers are free to choose their methods, techniques and procedures
What protocol were you following?
Strobe (Strengthening of reporting observational studies in epidemiology)
Positives and negatives of strobe?
Case controls, cohort and cross sectional
Contains a 22 point checklist
To improve the quality of reporting observational studies
Limited to three groups of studies
Sometimes seen as a tick list
Bias, generalisability and confounding variables could be more transparent
