THIS REQUIRES ONLY CERTAIN SECTIONS OF CHAPTER 3. IT ONLY REQUIRES 3 PAGES. ALL REFERENCES MUST BE FROM MEDICAL PEER REVIEW ARTICLES NO OLDER THAN 2009
Measuring the effectiveness of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Therapies for Veteran’s with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
1. Discuss the Validity of the Research (2 PAGES). Validity is an assessment of the truthfulness of a study’s results and findings (e.g. its trustworthiness)
-Argue the Validity of the Research(Include Internal, External and Threats)
-Also discuss:-
-Utility (the hope that the outcome of the research and its recommendations help future researchers)
-Participation (the goal that all stakeholders are offered an open invitation to participate with the study and view its results)
-Dependability (the desire to produce a method able to measure the effectiveness of CAMs)
-Transferability/Generalizability (the concept of asking whether the results, plans, methods can be transferred into other contexts)
-Credibility.
-Talk of Persistence in Observation and Data Collection (the concept that longer observation time mitigate the observation of events leading to short-term changes in orbserved behavior)
Triangulaltion (Drawing upon an assortment of sources leads to a verifiable, believable, and valid understanding of the data.
Negative Case Analysis – Discuss data failing to support or possible contradicting the research, assumptions or a particular element in the study
Referential Adequacy
Linguistic Adequacy
2. Reliability (1 PAGE)
Argue the measurements used in the study as reliable and valid using these categories:
-Test-Retest Reliability
-Internal Consistency
-Alternate Forms
-Interrater and Intrarater Reliability
-Face Validity
-Content
-Criterion
-Construct Validation
