Assignment About The Foundations of Medicine

Environmental Epidemiology – Assignment 1
Student name: Student ID:
What is your Research Question? (10%)
What are the factors that hinder healthy lifestyle behaviour and childhood obesity amongst
the school going children aged 3 to 11 years?
Search Strategy (including data sources, keywords/synonyms, inclusion
and exclusion criteria, a flow chart of search hits, etc) (40%)
Various electronic databases such as CINAHL, Medline, and PubMed were used for
gaining result for research question. The key term used for the research includes
“childhood obesity”, “factors influencing childhood obesity “, “ role of culture and
demographic in influencing childhood obesity “. Boolean operators were used for
connecting relationship between search terms. Two boolean operators were used AND and
OR to obtain an accurate answer. The inclusion criteria of the research include journals
within 10 years, based on the childhood obesity, factors influence the childhood obesity.
Any article other than childhood obesity were included.

Record identified through databases
5423 journal
5423 journals
After duplication removed
3756 journals
After screening
789 journalsRecord excluded
504 journals
Full text accessed
109 journals
109 journals
Full text with reason excluded :46 journals
Studies included in the qualitative synthesis
63 journals
Studies exclude for not meeting inclusion :55 journals
1 journal was identified
400862, Foundations of Medicine 2 – Population Health
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