Acupuncture Treatments

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses a dissertation designed to determine whether acupuncture treatment has a positive effect in alleviating the symptoms typically associated with depression. The paper summarizes the design, rationale and participants in the study, as well as its control groups, procedures and data. The paper also critiques and analyzes the paper's findings and makes comments on how the author of the dissertation could have improved upon her project.

Summary of Dissertation
Assessment of the Selection of the Research Topic
Assessment of Literature Review
Assessment of the Appropriateness of the Selection of Methods Used
Assessment of Appropriateness and Adequacy of the Procedures Used
Review of the Sufficiency of the Data Collected
Interpretations, Conclusions, Discussion of Dissertation

From the Paper:

"Two different major findings resulted from this study. "When the depression scale of the MMPI was used as a pre and post-treatment measure," Fazio reports, "only Group B had a significantly lowered post-treatment depression than did both Group A or Group C. However, when the BDI was used to measure pre and post-treatment depression, both Groups A and B had a significantly lowered post depression than did Group C" (p. 50). The results of the study therefore partially supported the hypothesis."

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