ASSESSMENT - SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW
Students will be given a variety of topics (Nutrition and Physical activity) to choose from to undertake a systematic review. Students will be expected to formulate a research question, develop a search strategy, apply study inclusion and exclusion criteria, data extraction, assessment of risk of bias, and analysis of study results.
A minimum of 10 full-length original articles or current available evidence published in peer reviewed epidemiologic and other scientific journals in the chosen topic area will identified,
summarized, and organised.
The word length for this written assignment is a maximum of 2000 words excluding reference and tables. The quality of review paper is expected to be closer to publication. Once students have completed this course they will have sufficient knowledge to participate in a systematic review.
Further instructions will be covered in the coming lectures and tutorials about systematic review approaches and outputs. In the meantime, additional readings can be found in VU Collaborate the content section entitled: Supporting materials for systematic review: Assignment 2.
Please choose one of the topics below:
Nutrition
1. Lifestyle, cultural and social and risk factors for Type 2 Diabetes among South Asians
2. Chamomile tea intake for improving glycaemic index in T2D
3. Nutrition interventions to improve oral health and chronic disease (AMI, Stroke, Diabetes, Arthritis)
4. High protein diet and the risk of type 2 diabetes
5. Fat diet in the prevention of diabetes
6. Risk factors for gestational diabetes among South Asians
Physical activity
1. Walk to school in the prevention of childhood obesity
2. 10000 steps to improve CVD/diabetes/mental health
3. Prolonged sitting and risk of chronic disease-Intervention
4. Physical activity determinants among low SES community
5. Physical activity interventions for migrants in Australia
6. Barriers to participating in physical activity among migrant women in Australia