NCCMT Spotlight Webinar: EPHPP: Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative Studies

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EPHPP: Quality Assessment Tool for

Quantitative Studies

Presenters:

Maureen Dobbins, RN, PhD

Megan Racey, MSc

October 18, 2016

1:00 – 2:30 PM ET

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Presenter

Maureen Dobbins, RN, PhD

Scientific Director, Health Evidence and the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools

McMaster University


Presenter

Megan Racey, MSc

PhD Candidate, Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences

University of Guelph

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Effective Public Health Practice Project

• Conducted 35 systematic reviews since 1999

• Creates knowledge dissemination materials

• Expedited reviews, methods and tools for quality

assessment, critical appraisal, and knowledge

synthesis

• Establishment of McMaster Evidence Review

and Synthesis Centre (MERSC)

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Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative Studies

• Developed for use in public health

• Can be applied to articles in any public health area

• Suitable for public health researchers,

practitioners and policymakers

• Two independent reviewers

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Tool Development

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Components

• Tool for overall methodological rating

• 8 component ratings synthesized to one global

rating

• Guide to generating interrater agreement

• Dictionary of terms

• Definitions relevant to each component

• Ensures standardized results

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Global Rating

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• Strong, Moderate or Weak

• Based on individual component ratings A-F

• Dictionary provides guide to completing this

section based on individual component ratings

• Example dictionary section:


Interrater Agreement

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Presenter

Megan Racey, MSc

PhD Candidate, Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences

University of Guelph

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Overview of my research

• Improving the success of nutrition education intervention relies on careful

planning of their design and feasibility of their evaluation

• There is little to guide researchers on how to best develop interventions

• We’ve conducted systematic reviews to identify characteristics of effective

interventions related to our target audience, food group focus and study

setting

• From this, we’ve developed a school-based intervention, Why Dairy and

Alternatives

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My use of EPHPP

• Used for quality assessment of dairy-specific

interventions in adolescents for systematic

review

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Excerpt of

table with

quality rating

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Marquez et al. ICAN 2015.


Why I choose EPHPP

• Experience/familiarity

• Ease of use

• Clarity

• Accessibility

• Applicability

• Practicality

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My experience

• Was easy to use

• Tool dictionary was a well-utilized resource

• Reliant on information provided by the

researcher/author of the study

• Required research judgement

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