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    This document provides guidance on how to write the material and methods section of a research paper. It recommends including standard elements like the study design, site, time period, study population, selection criteria, recruitment process, data collection procedures, measurements, variables, analysis, and ethics considerations. It advises checking the journal's instructions for authors and relevant reporting guidelines. Key details to include are the population studied, how they were recruited and sampled, and descriptions of qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis methods used in a clear and concise manner.

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    This document provides guidance on how to write the material and methods section of a research paper. It recommends including standard elements like the study design, site, time period, study population, selection criteria, recruitment process, data collection procedures, measurements, variables, analysis, and ethics considerations. It advises checking the journal's instructions for authors and relevant reporting guidelines. Key details to include are the population studied, how they were recruited and sampled, and descriptions of qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis methods used in a clear and concise manner.

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    How to write

    material and methods


    - And a few hints about how not to
    do it….
    For whom?
    • Who will be the most likely reader?
    • Journal preference
    • Subject matter
    • Consider your audience:
    – Where is the reader?
    (Do you talk about Norway, Bergen or Fantoft in the
    heading)
    – Interest of the audience?
    (HIV/AIDS epidemiology or biomedicine, child health,
    public health, policy, health system, statistics) etc.
    The journal
    • You (and your co-authors) have decided on
    the journal
    • Pub-med indexed
    • Open-access
    • Respectable
    • Not ‘impossible’
    Instruction for authors
    What to do:
    Check other papers in the journal
    Check instruction for authors carefully!

    • You get all you need on:


    – Length (word count)
    – Headings and subheadings
    – “Material and methods” “Subjects and methods”
    “Methodology” etc
    Standard elements
    • Design
    • Site
    • Time
    • Study population
    • Selection
    • Recruitment
    • (Intervention) – if an Intervention follow CONSORT!
    • Data
    • Data collection procedures
    • Data management
    • Measurements and instruments
    • Variables in analysis
    • Analysis
    • Ethics
    Site
    • We must understand where (place and
    context)
    – Sub-study of something bigger? (refer)
    – Independent study
    – Urban/rural/way-of-living
    – Anything special
    Study population
    • Who are they?
    • Men/women/children/age
    • Be exact
    – Aviod boring stuff which is a distraction, not in the information
    pathway of the paper: …. “Was done in Åsane outside Bergen, a
    sub-country of 71358 inhabitants, average life expectancy 81.23
    years for women and 80.37 for men”

    • Recruited how/from where/when


    • Sampled how/numerical presentaion
    Qualitative vs Quantiative
    • The reader is interested in what you have done
    where – not everything you possibly know about
    the place
    • The reader is interested in how you did things –
    write it well and exact – do not hide limitations
    (reviewers always discover it) and will ask for it
    • Quatliative methods: How do you relate to your
    collected data
    • Quantiative methods: Anything we need to know
    that could increase bias?
    Use of checklists
    • http://www.equator-network.org/reporting-
    guidelines/qualitative-research-review-
    guidelines-rats/

    • http://www.equator-network.org/

    – The equator network summarise useful lists for us


    – Including STROBE (observational), PRISMA
    (systematic reviews)
    http://www.consort-statement.org/
    • http://www.consort-
    statement.org/checklists/view/32-consort/66-
    title
    Other checklists
    • Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP)
    - too simplistic
    RATS (used by BMC)
    Task
    • Read method sections:
    – Based on a) presentation (broad bullets covered)
    – Based b) selected appropriate checklist are key
    points covered?
    • Further points to consider:
    – Length
    – Language
    – Obs: qual methods (writer’s positioning of
    him/herself)
    Standard elements
    • Design (yellow)
    • Site (orange)
    • Time (red)
    • Study population (green) (who is target population)
    • Selection (blue) [Inclusion in main study/substudy vs inclusion in analysis]
    Who is recruited in study/analysis from the target population (study profile)
    • Recruitment (how is the target population included/excluded) (blue)
    • (Intervention) – if an Intervention follow consort!
    • Data (what is the data going into the analysis) Variables in analysis– (purple)
    • Data collection procedures (brown)
    • Data management (pink)
    • Measurements and instruments
    • Analysis
    • Ethics
    Consider
    • Publication of protocol
    • http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-
    2334/12/246
    • Attachment of appendix (need online
    connection/not always available from the pdfs
    • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article
    /pii/S0140673611607381
    • file://eir.uib.no/Home1/mihie/Downloads/m
    mc1.pdf

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