ASSIGNMENT | ANALIZING POLITICS

Analyzing Politics—-Writing Assignment
Due Friday December 10, 2021 (no later than noon)

The purpose of this assignment is to help students learn to read research in a critical manner. The assignment is to be typed. Please use a standard font such as Times New Roman or Arial and font size such as 11 or 12. There is no page length requirement however students in the past have completed similar assignments in 3 to 6 pages.

The article that you will be evaluating is:
Patti, A., Bianco, A., Paoli, A., Messina, G., Montalto, M. A., Bellafiore, M., Battaglia, G., Iovane, A., & Palma, A. (2015). Effects of Pilates exercise programs in people with chronic low back pain: a systematic review. Medicine, 94(4), e383. https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000000383

Please answer the following questions to help evaluate this research study.

(1) What is the goal of this study? Specifically, what problem are the researchers trying to solve?
(2) Did the authors provide any statistics or other information to support their decision to do the study? If so, what?
(3) Has there been much research on this topic? What has previous research found?
(4) Is this research guided by theory? If so, what theory?
(5) What is the population used in this research?
(6) What is the unit of analysis for this study?
(7) What sampling method did the authors use?
(8) How large is the sample used in the study?
(9) What method was used in the data collection of this study?
(10) Does it appear the authors are doing applied or basic (pure) research?
(11) Do you have any ethical concerns regarding this study? Did the authors discuss steps taken to ensure that ethical requirements were met? Was the study approved by a IRB?
(12) What method(s) were used to analyze the data?
(13) Do you believe that the findings from this study would be very generalizable? Explain.
(14) What was the authors’ overall conclusion?
(15) Please discuss any concerns you might have with the study. If you had the resources, how would you redo this study to improve upon it?

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Analyzing Politics

1. The goal of the Study
   The study’s goal is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Pilates method in the treatment of people with acute non-specific low back pain. The method is gaining popularity within contemporary society, an aspect that draws attention from the researchers who acknowledge that musculoskeletal conditions are the causative agents of physical disability and long-term pain (Patti et al., 2015). The researchers establish that the workload intensity, frequency, and level of physical exertion in the application…