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Discussion of Results
From your
small dataset in Step 3 you need to present corrected results and discuss them.
Discuss the descriptive findings and also any associations of health
outcomes with exposures. In the latter case apply Bradford
Hill criteria for causality and discuss the limitations of your
study in terms of selection bias, information bias and confounding
bias. You are allowed to speculate somewhat on the meaning of
your results.
Discuss the implementation of your findings and
your recommendations for
preventing injury and illness or to promote better occupational health
at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels.
Unlike the example given below you should spend some thought and effort on your recommendations
for action to the management at the workplace. These should be fairly specific and prescriptive.
Please note that the 4 steps do not all need to be connected to and follow from each
other. It is obviously desirable that they do but this is not always possible.
Step 1 should ideally lead to a Step 2 that is related, but which constitutes a smaller
more focused aspect of what came out of Step 1.
This is the topic of the literature review and a protocol to collect data. However, this may not
be possible for various reasons and any topic that is do-able and that could yield data could be chosen for Step 2.
Step 3 should follow from Step 2 ideally, but if this is not possible, then other data could be analysed in Step 3.
Step 4 summarises all the steps and presents the information as if to management.
Obviously again this is easier if everything is connected.
If not, you will need to present what you have.
For Step 3 and Step 4 you will have to
work backwards to establish an implementation objective which may not be connected to Steps 1
and 2.
The bottom line for the Step 4 final product (which must include all 4 steps in a
succinct but complete manner for final marking of the final written report)
will include:
Step 1
the literature review in Step 2 indicating the state of knowledge and what is missing and needs to be researched
the Step 2 protocol
the Step 3 results after analysis of the data
and then
a concluding chapter/section (the Step 4 content) making conclusions about the findings
and recommendations to management. These could be all linked or there could be different
separate parts. There should be an executive summary covering all steps.
Further Guidance
on how results can be discussed
An example is provided from a former DOH project
on needle injuries in garment workers
The aims and objectives of this project are
outlined here.
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