Instructions:
- Go to the MDC database CINAHL (exercise your knowledge of searching) and search the following article (A copy is also provided below):
- Jaun, F., Boesing, M., Lüthi-Corridori, G., Abig, K., Makhdoomi, A., Bloch, N., Lins, C., Raess, A., Grillmayr, V., Haas, P., Schuetz, P., Gabutti, L., Muser, J., Leuppi-Taegtmeyer, A. B., Giezendanner, S., Brändle, M., & Leuppi, J. D. (2022). High-dose vitamin D substitution in patients with COVID-19: study protocol for a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-center study-VitCov Trial.Links to an external site. Trials, 23(1), 1–11.
- High-dose vitamin D substitution.pdf
- Remember, there are Original research articles that are based on an experiment or study. Often they follow the IMRAD format: introduction, methods, results, and discussion, and Review articles (literature reviews) are written to bring together and summarize the results/conclusions from multiple original research articles/studies. This analysis will be performed in a research study, you may copy and paste the responses.
- Find the Research Problem/Hypotheses: Often authors will refer to the purpose of the study. This is often articulated in the abstract, introduction, or background.
- Find the purpose statement?
- Find the study design?
- Identify the participants. How were these chosen?
- Identify the control group.
- Identify the intervention?
- outcomes (what was measured).
- What were the results?
- Where are the hypotheses rejected or accepted?
- Limitations.
