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Report on Randomised Control Trial

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Report on Randomised Control Trial

   Added on 2020-04-15

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Running head: RANDOMISED CONTROL TRIALRandomised control trialName of the student:Name of the University:Author’s note
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1RANDOMISED CONTROL TRIALScreening question:1. Yes, the Randomized controlled trial (RCT) gave idea of a clearly focused issue on whichthe research was conducted. The aim of the research was to compare the effect of foot massage(intervention) and quiet presence (comparator and control) on agitation and mood in dementiapatient (population) (Moyle et al. 2014). 2. Participants were randomized to treatment and control group. This can be understood bythe review of method section of the article which explained that block randomization was used toachieve equality in the size of intervention and control groups. Allocation concealment was doneby randomizing participants by a computer program. Allocation was concealed from datacollection research assistants, care staffs and patient’s families (Moyle et al. 2014). 3. Yes, the patients were analyzed in the groups to which they were randomized. This isalso understood because the trial was not stopped in between and all participants were followedup between baseline and post-test. No participants were lost to follow up after being randomizedto treatment.Detailed questions:4.
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2RANDOMISED CONTROL TRIAL Yes, family’s health workers and study personnel were blinded to treatment. This isunderstood as Moyle et al. (2014) mentioned about care staffs, data collections research assistantand families in the section of randomization and blinding. The purpose of blinding in clinicaltrial is to eliminate any impact of study findings due to different expectation of staffs (Schulz etal. 2011). Treatment allocation is not revealed to many research staffs until they enter the trial toprevent selection bias and any uninfluenced in study results because of knowledge aboutconcealment (Karanicolas, Farrokhyar and Bhandari 2010). Hence, it serves to preventdifferential treatment of the group at the onset of trial. 5. The validity of any RCT study is understood by keeping the baseline variables same atthe start of the trial (Piantadosi 2017). This is understood by reviewing the ‘result’ section of thestud which states that no difference in group at baseline were found for participants on the basisof age, gender, time spend in facility, living condition, regular medication and PNR medicationfor dementia patients. Example of baseline variables includes age, sex, social class, risk factorsand other adverse outcomes in participant. The advantage of keeping groups similar at the startof the trial is that it helps to prevent baseline imbalance (Doig and Simpson 2014). 6. The unique feature of a RCT study is that it tries to study the effect of an intervention byrandomization of participants to intervention and control group (Hayes and Moulton 2017). Insuch studies, the only different between the intervention group and control group is theintervention itself and other parameters are kept same (Latimer et al. 2017). In the RCT study byMoyle et al. (2014), intervention group received foot massage and control group received quiet
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