TAFE NSW: Evidence-Based Practice Assessment (CHCPOL003 & HLTMSG008)

This document presents a completed assignment on evidence-based practice, designed for a Diploma of Remedial Massage course at TAFE NSW. The assessment, encompassing units CHCPOL003 and HLTMSG008, evaluates the student's understanding of research principles, ethical and cultural considerations in the massage therapy industry, and their ability to analyze a research article from the ATMS Journal. Part A of the assignment focuses on identifying the reasons for using research principles like comparison, hypothesis testing, and trend identification, matching rules of evidence to images, and outlining cultural and ethical considerations. It also requires defining key concepts such as evidence-based practice, continuous quality improvement, and research, along with arranging sources of information by quality. Part B involves a detailed analysis of a provided research article, addressing questions about the study's objectives, research strategy, target population, communication requirements, result clarity, conclusion correlation, limitations, and associated risks. The student's responses demonstrate their comprehension of research methodology and critical evaluation skills within the context of remedial massage.

Knowledge Assessment
Evidence based practice
Criteria
Unit code, name and release number
CHCPOL003 Research and apply evidence to practice (release 2)
HLTMSG008 Monitor and evaluate remedial massage treatments (1)
Qualification/Course code, name and release number
HLT52015 Diploma of Remedial Massage (release 2)
Student details
Student number
291138152
Student name
Alison Hull
Assessment Declaration
 This assessment is my original work and no part of it has been copied from any other
source except where due acknowledgement is made.
 No part of this assessment has been written for me by any other person except
where such collaboration has been authorised by the assessor concerned.
 I understand that plagiarism is the presentation of the work, idea or creation of
another person as though it is your own. Plagiarism occurs when the origin of the
material used is not appropriately cited. No part of this assessment is plagiarised.
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Student signature and Date
30/03/20
Version: 2.0
Date created: 6 July 2018
Date modified: 31/08/2024
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Assessment instructions
Table 1 Assessment instructions
Assessment details Instructions
Assessment overview The objective of this assessment is to assess your knowledge as would be
required to:
 Determine what different forms of research techniques are
used to form evidence based practice and apply this
knowledge to decipher the quality of a journal article from a
professional association.
Assessment Event number CHCPOL003 1 of 4
HLTMSG008 2 of 7
Instructions for this
assessment
1. Answer all questions in Parts A and B below. Resources to
assist with the completion of the assessment task and the
journal article required for Part B can be located under the
Evidence Based Practice Assessment tab on iTAFE.
Submission instructions On completion of this assessment, you are required to submit via email to
your class teacher.
It is important that you keep a copy of all electronic and hardcopy
assessments submitted to TAFE and complete the assessment declaration
when submitting the assessment.
What do I need to do to
achieve a satisfactory
result?
To achieve a satisfactory result for this assessment all questions must be
answered correctly.
Due date and time allowed Week 11
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Assessment details Instructions
Newcastle Group 1: Monday 27/4/20
Newcastle Group 2: Saturday 2/5/20
Wyong: Wednesday 29/4/20
What do I need to
provide?
You will need access to a computer and the internet, if this is not
possible TAFE library facilities can be used to complete your
assessment.
Due date/time allowed See class timetable.
Assessment feedback,
review or appeals
Appeals are addressed in accordance with Assessment Guidelines for
TAFE NSW.
Evidence based practice
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Part A)
1) Identify reasons for using the following three research principles:
 Comparison
o To explore or compare two study variables
o Enables the researcher to advance from the basic level of exploratory case studies to a
higher level of study such as causality.
 Hypothesis testing
o To assess two mutually exclusive events regarding a population to find out the most
suitable event/statement.
o To ascertain if the different between or among groups of data is caused by true difference
or if it is due to the outcomes of sample variation
 Trend identification
o To predict future events
o To estimate some past events
(Bhattacherjee, 2012).
2) Match the following rules of evidence to the correct image below:
 Reliable not valid
 low validity low reliability
 not reliable not valid
 both reliable and valid
1 3 2 4
1.Low validity low reliability, 2. Not reliable not valid, 3. Reliable not valid, 4. Both reliable and valid.
(Elamin, and Montori, 2012)
3) Identify cultural and ethical considerations when conducting research in the massage
industry. (Minimum two for each)
Cultural considerations
1) Patient’s cultural background
2) Patient’s cultural beliefs
3) Patient’s cultural values
4) Patients view on different cultural beliefs
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Ethical considerations
1) Health and safety
2) Patient autonomy
3) Informed consent
4) Right to refuse
(Fouka, and Mantzorou, 2011).
4) Define the following concepts
 Evidence-based practice
o This is the conscientious use of existing research evidence as a basis for decision making
 continuous quality improvement
o This is a designed organizational process that consists of healthcare professional and other
staff in organizing and executing continuous proactive developments in the process of care
to offer quality healthcare
 Research
o This is the systematic enquiry into and study of materials to ascertain facts and arrive at
new inferences
5) Arrange the following sources of information from lowest quality to highest quality
 Anecdotal evidence
 Randomised control trials
 Cross sectional study
 Systematic review/metanalysis
 Cohort study
Part B)
You have been given a research article from the ATMS Journal. The link to this article can be
found in the Business and Communications section on iTAFE.
Read the article and answer the following questions to decipher the study.
Present your answers in typed form, headed with the name of the article, quoting then answering
each question.
Do not simply re-write the article. The purpose of the task is to assess your ability to understand
what the study is trying to achieve and how well it achieves it.
Questions
1. What did the researcher/s set out to achieve in the study?
Determine effects of massage therapy on symptoms of pain, worry and stiffness in cardiac surgery patients.
To evaluate the viability of integrating massage therapy into a healthcare setting for treating severe surgical
cases
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