Critical Appraisal on Drug Checking Service: Analyzing Behavior and Attitudes at Music Festivals

Running head: CRITICAL APPRAISAL ON DRUG CHECKING SERVICE
CRITICAL APPRAISAL ON DRUG CHECKING SERVICE
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Part A
Introduction
The aim of the paper is to critically appraise the article on drug checking service. The
essay highlights the critical appraisal of the article based on illicit drug testing at music festival.
Usage of illicit drug is increasing at an alarming rate among the young generation, thus the essay
focus on the finding of the paper and used to address the issue of exploitation of illicit drug.
Authorship
The authors of the article area affiliated from School of Medicine, University of Western
Sydney, Sydney, NSW; Australia University Centre for Rural Health, 61 Uralba Street, Lismore,
NSW, Australia; Harm Reduction and Health Promotion Programs, North Coast Public Health,
Mid North Coast Local Health District, PO Box 419, Lismore, NSW, Australia. The authors are
experienced in public health research and sophisticated data analysis. This experience of the
author is the principal strength. It is stated by the authors that there is no conflict of interest in the
paper.
Research question/aim/hypothesis
The major aim of the paper is to evaluate the behaviour of people towards drug checking
service which is conducted in a music festival. The study was conducted to understand the
influence of drug checking service among the population, and to evaluate the attitude of people
regarding usage of the drug. The study was done to check what the consequence of illicit drugs
is, and how it is affecting the behaviour of people. There is no such hypothesis stated by the

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author. The study is needed to check the purity of illicit drug for better public health (Day et al.,
2018).
Research design
The authors of the paper have used descriptive and correlational design to conduct their
study. The design was based on quantitative as well as qualitative data. The author has used
current status of the variables based on survey analysis. They have collected the observational
data. The analysis of data was done statistically. They have not taken the cause and effect of the
variable into the study. The primary strength of the study design is that it has made the result to
be more reliable and authentic (Fink, 2019). It is justified with the research question as study of
behaviour of person needs to be a descriptive and comparative analysis of expression of people
will give accurate and unbiased data.
Research methods
The research method used in the paper is based on qualitative data. Authors have
surveyed Australian music festivals. The general participant was selected for the study including
both male and female gender based on their age in the range of 18 to 30 years. The survey was
conducted by asking question about the usage of illicit drugs. Quantitative data was collected
from the study, and pilot testing was done to draw a conclusion. The data was analysed done
using SPSS. The primary strength of the above-stated research method is that, they gave
generalized result and purpose of the collection of information is cost-efficient (Lewis, 2015).
The limitation of the research method is that analyses of data may be challenging and biasness in
the data collection method might happen (Li et al., 2015).