Any research critiquers?!!
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After spending an hour searching google with no results, just wondering anyone is the great world of PH can help me!!
I'm trying to do a presentation on the critique of a research paper.
The problem comes with the method, as the data used in the study come from "Diana Project" which is a population-based study of female members of a health maintenance organisation in the Minneapolis-St Paul area who were attempting to become pregnant from 1989-1994.
I have been trying to find information on this project so I can found out more details on methods used etc however I'm really struggling to find anything! There's other Diana projects but nothing to do with this!!
2 questions:
1) Anyone happen to have heard of this Diana project and know where info can be obtained, (shot in the dark I know but google seriously let me down!)
2) What is a population-based study? I have lists of loads of types of method designs but not this one!
help!!
Thanks!
I'm trying to do a presentation on the critique of a research paper.
The problem comes with the method, as the data used in the study come from "Diana Project" which is a population-based study of female members of a health maintenance organisation in the Minneapolis-St Paul area who were attempting to become pregnant from 1989-1994.
I have been trying to find information on this project so I can found out more details on methods used etc however I'm really struggling to find anything! There's other Diana projects but nothing to do with this!!
2 questions:
1) Anyone happen to have heard of this Diana project and know where info can be obtained, (shot in the dark I know but google seriously let me down!)
2) What is a population-based study? I have lists of loads of types of method designs but not this one!
help!!
Thanks!
Quick google??:-
added: I have no idea if this is the thing you are after but I love googling
Nutrition study offers new advice for preventing birth defects
The Diana Project, an innovative School of Public Health-based research effort that in the early 1990s collected information on a variety of traits of women before and during pregnancy as well as on the outcome of their pregnancies, has yielded yet another recommendation for women who want to increase their odds of having a healthy child.
In a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in February, a research team led by Judith Brown, professor of public health nutrition, recommended that women anticipating pregnancy consume at least 450 micrograms of the B vitamin folic acid (folate) daily to help prevent spina bifida and related birth defects in their babies. The recommendation is based on Diana Project data. Noting the difficulty of achieving this intake with unfortified food alone, the researchers also recommended that women eat at least four servings of folate-fortified cereal a week or take folate supplements.
The new recommendations relate to findings over the past decade that women with low red blood cell concentrations of folate during very early pregnancy are more likely than others to give birth to children with neural tube defects such as spina bifida, a crippling disorder that affects thousands of American infants each year. Although previous research has shown that red blood cell folate higher than 300 nanograms per milliliter is associated with lower risk, the dietary intake needed to achieve this level was unknown until the Diana team's report.
"This study is important because it is the first to identify the amount of folate that women need to consume to prevent neural tube defects," Brown said. "It's clear that most women cannot rely solely on their average daily diet to achieve the necessary folate levels."
The Diana Project, initiated in 1989 by Brown in collaboration with colleagues at Group Health, Inc., a Twin Cities-based health maintenance organization, has yielded a wealth of information over the past few years about the link between maternal traits and infant health. The study has revealed details on the relationships between maternal body fat distribution and birth weight, and between nausea and pregnancy outcome, among other factors. Brown expects the database to continue to yield clues as to how choices women make before or during pregnancy increase the likelihood of a favorable outcome.
>> Edited by scared but happy on Thursday 6th October 14:16
added: I have no idea if this is the thing you are after but I love googling
Nutrition study offers new advice for preventing birth defects
The Diana Project, an innovative School of Public Health-based research effort that in the early 1990s collected information on a variety of traits of women before and during pregnancy as well as on the outcome of their pregnancies, has yielded yet another recommendation for women who want to increase their odds of having a healthy child.
In a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in February, a research team led by Judith Brown, professor of public health nutrition, recommended that women anticipating pregnancy consume at least 450 micrograms of the B vitamin folic acid (folate) daily to help prevent spina bifida and related birth defects in their babies. The recommendation is based on Diana Project data. Noting the difficulty of achieving this intake with unfortified food alone, the researchers also recommended that women eat at least four servings of folate-fortified cereal a week or take folate supplements.
The new recommendations relate to findings over the past decade that women with low red blood cell concentrations of folate during very early pregnancy are more likely than others to give birth to children with neural tube defects such as spina bifida, a crippling disorder that affects thousands of American infants each year. Although previous research has shown that red blood cell folate higher than 300 nanograms per milliliter is associated with lower risk, the dietary intake needed to achieve this level was unknown until the Diana team's report.
"This study is important because it is the first to identify the amount of folate that women need to consume to prevent neural tube defects," Brown said. "It's clear that most women cannot rely solely on their average daily diet to achieve the necessary folate levels."
The Diana Project, initiated in 1989 by Brown in collaboration with colleagues at Group Health, Inc., a Twin Cities-based health maintenance organization, has yielded a wealth of information over the past few years about the link between maternal traits and infant health. The study has revealed details on the relationships between maternal body fat distribution and birth weight, and between nausea and pregnancy outcome, among other factors. Brown expects the database to continue to yield clues as to how choices women make before or during pregnancy increase the likelihood of a favorable outcome.
>> Edited by scared but happy on Thursday 6th October 14:16
Have a root around
www.ahc.umn.edu/centerscope/nl/phc3.html#tp
www.ahc.umn.edu/centerscope/nl/phc3.html#tp
Try here. May be worth a search
Feb 1997 was when the article was taken
http://jama.ama-assn.org/
>> Edited by scared but happy on Thursday 6th October 14:22
Feb 1997 was when the article was taken
http://jama.ama-assn.org/
>> Edited by scared but happy on Thursday 6th October 14:22
Bit more:-
www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/76/1/205
scroll down to the title subjects and methods
That should give you all you need to know. This appears to give all the study information and resultant data
>> Edited by scared but happy on Thursday 6th October 14:33
www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/76/1/205
scroll down to the title subjects and methods
That should give you all you need to know. This appears to give all the study information and resultant data
>> Edited by scared but happy on Thursday 6th October 14:33
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