Please avoid a common error of making broad and vague statements… Please avoid a common error of making broad and vague statements about ‘

Please avoid a common error of making broad and vague statements… Please avoid a common error of making broad and vague statements about ‘a bias’. You have learned many different types of bias in this unit so we expect you to be specific with names/labels and also link it to how this will affect a certain aspect and/or findings of your chosen study.  Marks will not be awarded for providing names without explaining the implications. Of course, every shortcoming you identify is not any bias but we expect that you will link it to how this affect the study and the results. Please do not provide a ‘summary’ of the article or the results. Please do not repeat the information already provided in the paper (unless you are only referring to it to make/support the point you are making). Based on this article:https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2018.00125 Was true randomisation used for assignment of participants to treatment groups? Were treatment groups similar at baseline? Was allocation to treatment groups concealed? Were participants blind to treatment assignment? Were those delivering treatment blind to treatment assignment? Were outcome assessors blind to treatment assignment? Were treatment groups treated identically other than the intervention of interest? Was follow up complete and if not, were differences between groups in terms of their follow up adequately described and analysed? Were participants analysed in the groups to which they were randomised? (Intention to treat analyses). Were outcomes measured in the same way for treatment groups? Were outcomes measured in a reliable way? Was appropriate statistical analysis used? Was the trial design appropriate, and any deviations from the standard RCT design accounted for in the conduct and analysis of the trial?  Science Health Science PUBLIC HEALTH 201,203 Share QuestionEmailCopy link