Journal Club Presentation Public Health

1. Journal Club Presentation
Presented By:
Name: Asbin Ghimire
Roll No: 6
BPH, VIII Semester, SHAS, PU.
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2. Presented for the partial fulfillment of requirement
of
PHA 451 Journal Club/Health Seminar
of
Bachelor of Public Health, VIII Semester,
School of Health and Allied Sciences, Pokhara University
under the cardinal supervision of
Assistant Professor Dr. Hari Prasad Kaphle
By
Asbin Ghimire,
Symbol number:17370183
PU registration number:2016-1-37-0107.
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3. Selected Article for Presentation
• Mulatuwa Ayalew, Bezatu Mengistie & Agumasie Semahegn.
Adolescent - parent communication on sexual and reproductive health
issues among high school students in Dire Dawa, Eastern Ethiopia: a
cross sectional study. BMC part of Springer Nature.Reproductive
health volume 11, Article number: 77 (2014). BMC part of Springer
Nature
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4. Journal Information
• BMC has an evolving portfolio of peer-reviewed journals, sharing
discoveries from research communities in science, technology,
engineering and medicine since 1999
• It provide high quality research open to everyone who needed to
access it – and in making the open access model sustainable
• BMC is part of Springer Nature, giving a greater opportunities to help
authors everywhere make more connections with research
communities across the world.
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5. • This journal is committed to continual innovation in research
publishing to better support the needs of our communities, ensuring
the integrity of the research we publish and championing the benefits
of open research for all.
• This journal provide waiver for low-income or a lower-middle-income
economy with a gross domestic product (GDP) of less than $200bn.
• BMC editors evaluate research on the basis of scientific validity,
rigorous methodology, and high ethical standards.
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6. • Impact factor : 2.177 (2-year Impact Factor by Journal Citation
Reports (JCR) and 1.407 Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
• ISSN: 1742-4755
• Usage :1,102,036 Downloads and 1,502 Altmetric mentions
• Article-processing charge : £1870.00/$2680.00/€2170.00 for each
article accepted for publication, plus VAT or local taxes where
applicable.
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7. Indexed with
• CAS
• BIOSIS
• Embase
• MEDLINE
• PubMed Central
• Science Citation Index Expanded
• Scopus
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8. Editorial team
• Editor in chief- José M Belizán, Institute for Clinical
Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS), Argentina and Sanni
Yaya University of Ottawa, Canada
• Managing Editor- Veronica Pingray, Institute for Clinical
Effectiveness and Health Policy, USA
• 7 section Editors member
• 18 assistant Editors
• Statistical consultant- Malinee Laopaiboon, University of Khon
Kaen, Thailand, Luz Gibbons, Department of Mother & Child
Health Research, Argentina Gilda Piaggio, Campinas, Brazil
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9. • 23 Editorial Board Member
• Editor Emeritus: Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli, World Health
Organization
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10. Critical Appraisal of Journal
• It publish articles on selective titles such as BMC Biology, BMC
Medicine, Genome Biology and Genome Medicine, academic
journals such as Journal of Hematology & Oncology, Malaria
Journal and Microbiome, and the BMC series, 65 inclusive journals
focused on the needs of individual research communities.
• This journal site is also partner with leading institutions and societies
to publish journals on their behalf.
• All articles published in journals are open access and freely available
online, immediately upon publication
• It use peer reviewed process to review the article before publication
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11. Format for peer reviewed process
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12. Peer Review Report of Article
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13. Tittle of Article
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14. Critical Appraisal of Title
• The title indicates the topic and focus of the study.
• Study design clearly stated in title.
• The title is meaningful.
• The title clearly reflects aim and objectives of the study.
• It also indicates the research question
• The title look catchy.
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15. Authors
• Mulatuwa Ayalew, College of Health and Medical Sciences, Haramaya
University, Po. Box- 235, Harar, Ethiopia. 1 result(s)
for 'author#"Mulatuwa Ayalew"'within BMC
• Bezatu Mengistie, College of Health and Medical Sciences, Haramaya
University, Po. Box- 235, Harar, Ethiopia. 14 result(s)
for 'author#"Bezatu Mengistie"'within BMC.
• Agumasie Semahegn College of Health and Medical Sciences,
Haramaya University, Po. Box- 235, Harar, Ethiopia. 16 result(s)
for 'author#"Agumasie Semahegn"'within BMC.
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16. Critical Appraisal of Authors
• The name of the authors are clearly mentioned.
• Provide digital information of author.
• Authors experiences and designation not mentioned
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17. Abstract
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18. Critical Appraisal of Abstract
• Provide concise summary of the entire contents of article
• Structured
• It is an informative abstract
• The information given in the abstract matches with what is present in
detail text
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19. Introduction
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20. Critical Appraisal of Introduction
• The introduction is meaningful and easy to understand.
• All the citations are followed with correct references in the list of
references.
• The information included and the facts mentioned states that the
authors have clear idea about what they are trying to find out
• The introduction is logically presented.
• The research question was stated in the introduction
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21. Materials and methods
• Study design: Institution based cross sectional quantitative and
qualitative study was employed on this study.
• Study period: February to March, 2011.
• Study setting: Dire Dawa administrative council
• Sampling method: Multi stage sampling procedure was employed to
select representative sample of students in the selected high schools.
The sample size was proportional allocated to each stratum for each
grade participants were selected by simple random sampling (lottery
method) using the roster as sampling frame. For focus group
discussion Purposively selected day-time student parents were taken.
• Sample size: 695
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22. • Inclusion criteria: In-school adolescents was selected from 9–12
grades in the academic year and day-time student parents’ was selected
for focus group discussions
• Exclusion criteria: Students who are blind and or seriously sick at the
time of data collection were excluded from the study.
• Method of collection of data: Data were collected using pretested
structured self administered questionnaire.
• Statistical analysis: To ensure the quality of the data, all the filled
questionnaire were checked for incompleteness and inconsistency.
Data were edited, coded and entered using EPI Info version 3.5.1 and
then transport to SPSS window version 16.0 for statistical analysis.
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23. • Ethical consideration: Ethical clearance was obtained from
Haramaya University, institutional research ethics review committee.
Permission was obtained from school administration and schools
parent-teachers committee. Informed verbal consent/assent was
obtained from every participant after explaining the purpose of the
study in detail
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24. Critical Appraisal of Materials and Methods
• The study design of the research is appropriate as per the research
problem.
• The methods used are appropriate and are explained in detail as far as
practicable.
• Inclusion and Exclusion criteria and Ethical consideration was clearly
mentioned.
• Sample size was large enough to produce effective result.
• Clearly mentioned the process of data analysis and qualitative data
was carefully analysis by experts
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25. Result
• Response rate was 92%.
• The mean age of study participants was 17.1(±1.5) years old
• More than three fourth (77.2%) of students knew about common
sexual transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS.
• Five hundred thirty one (82.8%) of students had knew about at least
one contraceptive method that are used to prevent unwanted
pregnancy.
• Almost all focus group discussants was not comfortable to have
discussed on sexual and reproductive issues with their adolescents and
none of discussants accepted premarital sex.
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26. • Approximately one-third (32.3%) student strongly disagreed having
premarital sex.
• The reason of premarital sex disapproval were to maintain their virginity
until marriage, religious value, fear of STIs, waiting until getting older and
fear of unwanted pregnancy 30.7%, 15.9%, 12.6%, 5.9%, 4.5%,
respectively.
• 77% of students recognized the importance to discuss about sexual and
reproductive health issues with their parents
• The odds of discussing on sexual and reproductive issues were 40% less in
males compared to females’ students [OR = 0.6, 95% CI: 0.4, 0.8].
• Three-fourth (74.7%) of students preferred their peers to discus about their
sexual and reproductive health issues.
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27. Critical Appraisal of Results
• All the data are presented in tabular form and are titled properly.
• The results are presented in logical manner
• The table represents the given information clearly.
• The results are based on aim and objectives of the study
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28. Discussion
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30. Critical Appraisal of Discussion
• It lightens the major findings of the study in a meaningful way.
• The finding of the study are compared to various studies that are
conducted on similar topic.
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31. Conclusion
• This study finding showed that there were low communication about
sexual and reproductive health issues between parent and adolescent
and they discussed about sexual matters more with peers than parent.
• Cultural taboo, feel ashamed and lack of communication skill affect
adolescent-parent communication on sexual matters
• Promote parent-adolescent communication on sexuality and improve
peer to peer sexuality education program incorporating in to school
curriculum, promoting school sexual and reproductive health clubs to
enhance parent-adolescent communication and providing information
education communication and behavioral change communication
materials.
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32. Critical Appraisal of Conclusion
• The conclusions are meaningful.
• The conclusion is supported by the results.
• The research question has been answered.
• It also provide the solution of the problem state
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33. References
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35. Critical Appraisal of References
• The references are for every citation in the text part of the article.
• All the article mentioned in the references are open access and full
text were available
• All references were relevant to research.
• The referencing is done in Vancouver style
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36. Strengths
• On this study quantitative and qualitative data were presented
triangulated manner.
• The article is a reliable and useful source of information for academic
and non academic purposes.
• The article provide the importance of communication between
adolescent and parents on reproductive health
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37. Weaknesses
• It was based on self-reporting and it might be affected by social
desirability bias because of sensitive nature and cultural barrier for
open discussion.
• The study design was cross section cause and effect relationship could
not be established.
• Analytical study design is recommended for further researches.
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38. Overall significance of the article
• The information provided is believable as it is published in reliable
journal.
• The study findings are almost similar to other study. Hence no new
finding has been generated from the study.
• The research is conducted taking large sample size which enhance the
generalizability of the study.
• Assessing adolescent-parent communication on sexual and
reproductive health issues and associated factors helps for policy
makers, health care providers and any concerned bodies to design
appropriate intervention strategies to tackle young generation
reproductive health problems
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39. Contribution to my Research
• Title of my research: Adolescent-parents communication on
reproductive health issue on Baiteshwor , Dolakha.
• It provide literature review for my research
• It help in development of questioner
• It provide reference and guideline for my research
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