Finalizing Topic Choices
Sarah Zitsman
Sorry I missed last week's impromptu meeting....
Based on what Ms. Smith said in class this week, it appears we need to
concentrate on the epi methods more than the topic... That being said;
we do need to finalize our topic choices
Nhi and I were talking after class this week about ways to combine all
of our interest into one project. Plus, by doing this, hopefully we
can address a public health issue from a new direction. We thought it
would be fun to combine sexual health (Nhi's interest), with yoga
(Justin's interest) and aging (my interest)...... Our thoughts were
to do a "study" on how yoga can effect stress/ blood pressure as
measured by reduced incidence of erectile dysfunction in men over
60.
*IF* ya'll are okay with this, next we need to finish our lit. review
on yoga, sexual dysfunction in men, etc.
Then, we would need to decide on study design. Here are a few
possibilities we discussed: cross-sectional (ie. a poll of men on
whether they do yoga, whether they have erectile dysfuncion, and/or
whether they use viagra); a case control study (ie. of men w/ ED how
many do yoga, of men w/o ED how many do yoga --> to determine if yoga
is a protective factor for ED); some sort of cohort study (following
men who do/don't do yoga to see if they develop ED); or a clinical
trial (compare effectiveness of yoga to viagra to placebo).
What does everyone think on the topic?
Best,
Sarah
Mickey Lui
Mickey
Erin Littmann
I like the topic and I like the idea of the cross sectional or the
case control study designs. I will look into studies and see what I
can find.
Erin
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Sarah Zitsman
I won't be much help this week cause of blocks (2 down- 4 to go!!) but..... here are my thoughts. Please note, this is MY understanding of what we are supposed to be doing:
The purpose of our literature review is to set the stage for our "study". It should both tell the reader the background on the subject and tell our *pretend* funders why we think it is necessary to spend our *pretend* resources on running the study.
The research will mainly inform the "Background" section of our paper. It might say something along the lines of:
"We found 10 studies showing that yoga has xyz health benefits. These benefits included reduced stress and lower BP. We also found 10 studies demonstrating that men who have lower stress/ lower BP have a decreased risk for ED. However, few studies (if any) discuss whether or not the regular practice of yoga can decrease risk for ED." Thus, we set the stage for WHY we chose to do a study on yoga and ED. So, then we would follow up by saying that we are doing this preliminary case-control study on yoga and ED to see if yoga is a protective factor for developing ED.
I think that if we find articles on yoga/ED specifically THEN we will need to read what they said should be done as "further research" and we should direct our "study" to that. However, Ms. Smith made it clear that we need A LOT of citations. So, unless there are a TON of studies on yoga and ED already then we should still cite many studies that look at each topic individually.
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Sarah
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Mickey Lui
being said from what I have found there are little to none that have
yoga, ED and aging. What I have found are articles pertaining to yoga
and womens sexual health and yoga effects on blood pressure in older
adults which could be fine to be included to lead up to why we are
doing this study given X benefits etc.
3) When can we meet to move ahead with this paper, or shall we
continue via email? email is fine, can meet during the epi break if
needed for now
4) How about beginning to set some time deadlines to move forward with
the project? fine with that deadline of end of this week.
See you all in class,
Mickey
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