Critical Appraisal of Global Epidemiology of Type 1 Diabetes in Young Adults and Adults using CASP Tool

This presentation provides a critical appraisal of a peer-reviewed article on the global epidemiology of Type 1 diabetes in young adults and adults using CASP tool for systematic review. It includes an overview of the study, sampling, method, findings, limitations, and conclusion.

CRITICAL
APPRAISAL USING
CASP TOOL
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

INTRODUCION
■ The major aim of the study is to critically analyse
the peer review article on global epidemiology of
Type 1 diabetes in young adults and adults.
■ CASP tools for systematic review of the articles
have been chosen
■ The CASP tool is addressing the 10 questions.

OVERVIEW
■ Did the review address a clearly focused
question?
YES
The aim of the research was to search for the
various incidence of type 1 Diabetes among
the young adult and adult.

SAMPLING
■ Did the authors look for the right type of papers?
YES
- The article selected contain RCT and cohort based
studies addressing the research question.
■ Do you think all the important, relevant studies were included?
NO
- Sample article were old in publication and non-English
language which is making the studies irrelevant.

METHOD
■ Did the review’s authors do enough to assess
quality of the included studies?
YES
- Lack of rigor was noticed in the paper as
Inclusion/exclusion criteria is not highlighted
and no use of quality assessment was done of
70 selected articles.

FINDING
■ If the results of the review have been combined, was it reasonable to do so?
YES
-Used critical discussion of the paper.
■ What are the overall results of the review?
YES
-Finding- People reaching the age of 14, incidence of type 1
diabetes gets lowered in adulthood
■ Can the results be applied to the local population?
YES
-Article chosen were of different country thus covering
perspective of local population.

LIMITATION
■ Were all important outcomes considered?
NO
-As many limitation was noticed in the
paper like limitation of search of articles from
different database and lack of relevant result
and the outcome were not considered.

CONCLUSION
■ Are the benefits worth the harms and costs?
YES but need more research.
-The study ask for more critical research
on the area of incidence of type 1 diabetes.
-Future implication of the study will
improve the health condition of the growing
generation as research on diabetes can
improve the

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