Wasim is a 29 year old male student studying Arts at an Australian University. Wasim is reading facebook and sees that all his university friends are talking about buying ‘smart drugs’ to help them perform well in exams. Wasim knows that these ‘smart drugs’ are stimulants that are prescribed for conditions like ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder). He used to have a friend at school with ADHD but doesn’t think any of his friends have been diagnosed with it, nor does he know anyone who has been prescribed stimulants. Wasim has just started at university and has learned that harm can come from either wrong information or lack of information about drugs, so decides to test out his skills in evaluating evidence by finding out about whether the claims his friends are making are true or not.
Clinical question: Do stimulants increase academic performance in university students?
Introduction: approximately 180 words (10%)
Body:
Hildt, E., Lieb, K., & Franke, A. G. (2014). Life context of pharmacological academic performance enhancement among university students – a qualitative approach. BMC Medical Ethics, 15(1), 23-23. doi:10.1186/1472-6939-15-23
PART A
Authorship
Research Aims
Design
Findings
Strengths and weaknesses
Munro, B. A., Weyandt, L. L., Marraccini, M. E., & Oster, D. R. (2017). The relationship between nonmedical use of prescription stimulants, executive functioning and academic outcomes. Addictive Behaviors, 65, 250-257. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2016.08.023
Authorship
Research Aims
Design
Findings
Strengths and weaknesses
PART B
Discuss the barrier’s for the application of evidence in practice.
Discuss how closely the research studies provided align with the PICO question/elements.
PICO stands for
P = Patient, Problem, Population
I = Intervention, Prognostic Factor, Exposure
C = Comparison
O= Outcome
Conclusion: approximately 180 words (10%)