Methodology for Conducting Research on Influence of Sedentary Lifestyle on Teenagers

1. Methodology
Why should research be conducted?
It is necessary to determine influence of sedentary lifestyle on teenagers. This is
because it will give an insight on factors due which obesity in increasing among them.
moreover, by following a proper methodology it will be easy to select papers, journals, etc.
however, this will make it simple for researcher to understand what papers should be selected
and not. As topic is very broad it is difficult to gather precise data. thus, it is necessary to
define and use methods to conduct study.
2. Literature Review: Why has this method been selected?
A critical literature review means to evaluate theoretical data from different
sources and analysing it. through this, secondary data is collected with substantive
findings. The data is collected by reviewing journals, articles, etc. so, by critically
accessing information, data is collected. It helps in giving overview about research
conducted by authors and what are their views regarding it. the views can be either
against or in favour. In most cases literature review is theory driven. In this facts and
figures are also included which helps in comparing topic on different factors or
elements. It is easy to understand theoretical driven literature review as it is expanded
in broad way. moreover, everything is covered in it which throws highlight on subject.
Furthermore, doing secondary research is easier than analysing data driven study.
However, it requires researcher to have strong and effective analytical skills to
conduct data driven review. Sometimes, it requires several tools to analyse data and
this makes it difficult for researcher to interpret it. in theoretical review some facts
and figures can also be included. It can show relationship between theory and data.
But on contrary in data driven review there are numbers which is not understood by
other people. hence, many authors prefer to do theoretical review.

In present study, a straightforward literature is carried out in order to access
influence of obesity in adults. It will be helpful in exploring topic and evaluating
factors which has resulted in increase in disease. This approach is taken as it will be
easy and simple to analyse adoption of sedentary lifestyle. besides this, selection of
this approach will be useful in focusing on relevant areas and improving quality of
data. Alongside it, carrying straightforward review will save cost as well time for
researcher. therefore, it will enable in completing study on time. However, some facts
and figures can be taken to develop relationship between overweight children and
impact on their growth. This approach is taken to make study more precise. it will
assist in determining factors that influence teens and what problems are been faced by
them in further growth and development.
3. Alternative methods:
Data driven study could have been conducted. This is because it would focus
more on facts and figures rather than theory. Moreover, with this data gathered would
more quantitative resulting in gaining depth knowledge about topic. In this another
option that can be taken into consideration is empirical research. It would be easy to
emphasise on actual number rather than theories.
4. Search for Literature:
In order to form research question PICO structure was followed. by using this, it was
easy to develop appropriate questions.
5. Table 1: PICO breakdown:
Population Teenagers between age of 10-18 were
taken
Intervention Health diseases

Control None
Outcome Interventions in treating teenagers
with health issues can result in risk of
heart attack, diabetes, etc.
6. Table 2: Justification for Database selection:
Web of science There are many databases included in it
which is related to different.
AMED In this database there are different journals
and articles stored related to obesity,
lifestyle, etc.
EBSCO It provides a range of articles, books, etc.
related to medicine.
JSTOR It consists of range of E books, research
papers, etc.
7. Search Terms:
The CASP principles was applied to gather quality data from previous journals
and articles. The first principle applied was searching articles with using terms
related to related to obesity, teenagers and overweight, sedentary lifestyle was taken
and rest was eliminated. it helped in making it easy to restrict search area. It was
beneficial in searching good articles. Another principle applied was use of Boolean
operator. Here, AND, OR and NOT operators were used. Here, AND was used to
narrow search. Only relevant articles related to search terms was selected. It was
useful in selecting authentic papers. Moreover, just by inserting AND operator search
results only showed term pre defined above. Apart from it, AND operator was used to
specify time frame as well. By applying it, research papers between 2012 and 2018
were taken. Therefore, this made it more specific in restricting time frame. Thus, by
applying principles of CASP precise and accurate articles were selected. This was
useful in studying those and maintaining quality of data.