Udupi: Manipal College of Nursing 2-day organizes Workshop on Systematic Review

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Udupi, 03 Dec 2016: The Research Core Committee and Doctoral Research Scholars of Manipal College of Nursing (NCON), Manipal University (MU), here organized a workshop on Systematic Review from November 29 to November 30.

 

The objective of the workshop was to strengthen the knowledge of Researchers in the area of Systematic Reviews. The inauguration of the workshop was held on November 29.

 

Dr Sreekumaran Nair, director, Public Health Evidence, South Asia (PHESA) and head of department of statistics, MU, Manipal, was the chief guest for the inaugural function.

 

Dr Anice George, dean, Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal in her welcome address gave an overview of the programme.

 

In his inaugural address, Dr Sreekumaran spoke on ‘Evolution and Significance of Systematic Reviews.’ Vote of thanks was conveyed by Manjula, organising secretary and assistant Professor, MCON, Manipal. Latha T, assistant Professor, MCON Manipal compered the inaugural function.

 

The formal workshop commenced with a session on ‘Introduction to Systematic Reviews.’ Ramesh C, PhD scholar, MCON Manipal spoke on ‘Development of a Systematic Review Protocol’. He highlighted on importance of evidence based practice, types and importance of systematic reviews. He also presented an overview of steps of systematic review. The second session was on ‘Framing a Systematic Review question’ by Dr Judith A Noronha, Professor and head of department of OBG nursing and associate dean, MCON Manipal.

 

The last session in the morning was on ‘Formulating a Search Strategy’ by Dr Baby S Nayak with hands on training for the participants. She highlighted on steps of search strategy in major data bases such as PubMed Medline, CINAHL & CENTRAL.

 

The afternoon session started with a session on ‘Retrieving, De-duplicating and Extraction of Data’ by Dr Prasanna Mithra P, associate Professor, department of community medicine, KMC, Mangaluru, Manipal University. He highlighted on use of software COVIDENCE for deduplication of data. The next session was on Meta- analysis by Dr Sreekumaran Nair. He explained about the process of meta-analysis. The last session of the first day was by Vishnu Renjith, PhD Scholar, MCON, Manipal on ‘Randomization process and blinding’.

 

 

 

 

 

Second day of the workshop started with a session on ‘Assessing the Risk of Bias’ by Dr Judith A Noronha, She has emphasized on the need of assessing the quality of individual studies by assessing the risk of bias for randomised control trials and non randomised control trials.. The second session for the day was on ‘Summarization, reporting of data, PRISMA and MOOSE guidelines’ by Shejila C H, PhD scholar, MCON, Manipal. It was followed by a session on ‘Synthesizing Qualitative Research: Qualitative Meta Synthesis’ by Vishnu Renjith. The third session was on Introduction to ‘Rev Man & STATA’ by Dr Ravishankar, bio-statistician, department of virus research, Manipal University, Manipal with a hands on training.

 

The afternoon session started with a session on ‘Assessing the Quality of Evidence – GRADE approach and STROBE’ guidelines by D. Unnikrishnan, Professor, department of community medicine, associate dean, KMC, Mangaluru, Manipal University which was followed by session on ‘Publication Ethics’ by Dr Anice George, Professor and dean, Manipal College of Nursing Manipal, Manipal University.

 

The workshop concluded at 4.00pm, with a report by organizing secretary, which was followed by awarding the workshop certificates by Dr Anice George, organizing chairperson of the workshop. The feedback on the programme was given by Dr Leena K C, the workshop delegate. Manjula, organizing secretary proposed the vote of thanks.

 

A total of 30 participants from different institutions of the country participated in the workshop. All the participants were involved actively in the group activities. The group was a truly Inter-professional one. The participants while appreciating the workshop said that it will be very useful in their day to day professional activities.