3. AppraisingAssist students to appraise the evidence for both relevance and trustworthiness
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Depending on the EBP question, the acquired evidence may specifically and comprehensively address the question, and it may be clearly trustworthy; or the evidence may require some level of critical appraisal to determine how relevant it is to the original situation and/or how trustworthy it is.
Prompts for facilitating 'Appraising'
- How relevant to your situation is the information you’ve acquired?
- How are you judging the relevance?
- How trustworthy is the information you’ve acquired?
- How are you judging the trustworthiness?
- Would a critical appraisal tool be helpful for appraising this information? Why or why not?
Prompts for assessing 'Appraising'
- Why did you judge the information was relevant enough?
- Why did you judge the information was trustworthy enough?
- Alternatively, why were you sure there was no relevant or trustworthy evidence to answer your question?
- If you used a critical appraisal tool, what conclusion did you reach about the quality of the evidence? What were the main factors you considered?
General tips & strategies for 'Appraising'
The following websites contain a range of critical appraisal tools that can help practitioners learn to critically appraise the trustworthiness of different kinds of research evidence:
https://casp-uk.net/casp-tools-checklists/
https://www.understandinghealthresearch.org/
http://srs-mcmaster.ca/research/evidence-based-practice-research-group
www.unisa.edu.au/research/Health-Research/Research/Allied-Health-Evidence/Resources/CAT
https://casp-uk.net/casp-tools-checklists/
https://www.understandinghealthresearch.org/
http://srs-mcmaster.ca/research/evidence-based-practice-research-group
www.unisa.edu.au/research/Health-Research/Research/Allied-Health-Evidence/Resources/CAT