Schizophrenia and Electroconvulsive therapy
Order Description
Will the use of electroconvulsive therapy improve lives of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and what are the benefits and risk of undergoing ECT?
-Create a research design to explore on the question. The entire study and choices are up to the writer for example(study settings, subjects, participants however the research study must be
Randomized controlled trial
include:
-Overview of design, with justification (1 mark)
-Study setting (0.5 mark) -Describes subjects/participants, the inclusion/exclusion criteria, and how they will be recruited (2 marks)
-Describes the measures that will be used for the exposure and outcome variables; describes the intervention where applicable (2 marks)
-Describes how relevant threats to internal validity related to study design will be handled (e.g. lost to follow up, confounding, recall bias etc.) (1 mark) -Analysis: -Describes the types of
variables to be used in the analysis (e.g. dichotomous, continuous) (0.5 mark)
-States how descriptive and inferential statistics will be performed (1 mark)