Research article

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1. RESEARCH ARTICLE A.THANGAMANI RAMALINGAM PT, MSc(PSY),PGDRM,ACS PHD SCHOLAR [email protected]

2. Objectives Research –why? Research paradigms Research in physiotherapy-scenario Research Evidence Problem (What) Search (Which) Sources(Where) Keywords(How) Evidence (Types) Research Article Components Publishing

3. Information to knowledge Empirical evidence creation/ anecdotal Logical understanding /reasoning Research –why?

4. RESEARCH PARADIGMS

5. Research in physiotherapy-scenario Unaware of research designs/problems/evidence Struck with P<0.05 Never quantify the effect of intervention

6. RESEARCH EVIDENCE

7. Resources )   DynaMed ( www.dynamicmedical.com/ ) Essential Evidence Plus ( www.infopoems.com/ ) Cochrane Library ( www.cochrane.org/ ) Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness ( www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/ ) FPIN ( www.fpin.org/ ) Clinical Evidence ( www.clinicalevidence.com/ )

8. Search

9. Sources

10. Key words Think from the point of view of the reader . Keywords should ideally be phrases of 2-4 words include words and phrases that are closely related to your topic . 4-5 keywords  https://www.editage.com/insights/how-to-create-keywords-for-a-research-paper

11. GOOGLE SCHOLAR

12. Levels of evidence

13. RESEARCH ARTICLE

14. Components of a research article

15. Anatomy of article

16. What you get there when you read?

17. Publishing

18. Reporting the research Follow the format – IMRAD Mechanics of writing Guidelines for reporting-  ICMJE Guidelines ( http://www.icmje.org or  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html )