Description
Search library databases to search for one quantitative research article from a peer-reviewed journal on a topic of your interest.
- Before you read the full article and begin your annotation, locate the methodology section in the article to be sure that the article describes a quantitative study. Confirm that one of the types of quantitative designs, such as quasi-experimental, casual comparative, correlational, pretest–posttest, or true experimental, was used in the study.
- Annotate one quantitative research article from a peer-reviewed journal on a topic of your interest.
- Provide the reference list entry for this article in APA Style followed by a three-paragraph annotation that includes:
- A summary
- An analysis
- An application as illustrated in this example
Explanation & Answer
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Running head: ANNOATION OF A QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ARTICLE
RSCH 8110/7110/6110: Annotation of a Quantitative Research Article
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RSCH 8110/7110/6110: Annotation of a Quantitative Research Article
Xu, X., Li, Q., Chang, C., Wang, X., & Xie, L. (2020). Metabolic syndrome is not associated
with prostate cancer recurrence: a retrospective analysis of a Chinese cohort. Frontiers in
Oncology, 10, 63. https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2020.00063
The authors Xu, Li, Chang, Wang, and Xie undertook the study to investigate whether
there is an association between metabolic syndrome and prostate cancer recurrence. The
objective of their work was to assess whether metabolic syndrome and its elements are risk
factors for prostate tumor biochemical recurrence in a group of postoperative males in their
facility. In this work, Xu et al. retrospectively studied 214 participants with a prostate tumor, all
of who had received radical prostatectomy. The authors estimated the variations between cohorts
utilizing the Student's t-test or X2 test. The researchers computed the bi...