The Viological Review Of Cochrane Review - 857 Words

This study is a Cochrane Review, it included randomized controlled trials (RCTs) from 2 weeks duration comparing antihypertensive medication against placebo, hypertensive medication from different doses, and monotherapy hypertensive mediation treatments. The criteria of hypertension were defined as a minimum of three readings systolic or diastolic blood pressure or combinations of these two greater than 95th percentile according to the pediatric age, height, and gender. Level of Evidence The level of evidence of this article is level one in accordance with the John Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Evidence Rating Scale (n.d.). Level one is given due to the utilization of RCTs and the evidence strength. Additionally, in†¦show more content†¦Thus, these critical elements compromise the studies internal validity. Additionally, the study external validity was integrated into the sample which included children from age 0 to 18 years. Children with chronic kidney disease, nephrotic syndrome, and children with malignant hypertension were also included. However, the sample does not specify ethnicity or background for those children. The sample mean age was 9 years, but the participants gender was not specified. The effects of the research environment were eliminated by completing the studies in the healthcare clinical settings. Moreover, the methodology of the data collection seems to be adequate. The generalization of this study could b e made to children cero to eighteen-years-old. Consequently, this study can be applicable to the PICO question presented earlier in this paper. However, the study fails to provide detail information with regard to diet and exercise as well as obesity. Subsequently, the lack of information on diet, exercise and obesity cannot contribute to answering this research paper. CRAAP This article was published in 2014 which is considered contemporaneous and current. A total number of references listed were seventy, the oldest reference was from 1983. Additionally, even to the study does not mention diet and exercise, it