POSTER PRESENTATION

Some factors that you should consider when preparing your poster are given below.

Title:

• Does the title suitably reflect the proposed research?

Introduction, Aims and Objectives:

• Is rationale clear, concise?
• Is there suitable justification for the relevance of the study, and has sufficient background information been provided?
• Have you investigated whether similar studies have already been published? (including previous research projects) – if yes, what new elements does this study merit to advance the work of this previous research?
• Have a few key references for both methods justification and comparison or advancing of current evidence been cited?
• Has a clear aim or question been identified?
• Does it link with the project’s title?

Methods

• Is there a clear description of the research design? e.g. using a flow diagram
• Is it clear whether the study is a validation or an intervention study or elements of both?
• How many participants have been proposed? and why?
• Is the sample size appropriate and, where applicable, justified (e.g. aware of concept of statistical power?)

General participant issues

• What will be the method(s) for identifying and recruiting potential participants?
• From where, when and what type (age, gender, group) will the participants be recruited?
• What selection or recruitment strategies will be employed?
• If different groups (e.g. control or intervention or compared condition) are required.
• How will they be allocated to those groups? e.g. randomisation; or pre-selected (e.g. gender, age, screened or assessed/tested Specific needs and considerations for the well-being and including of participants
• Any potential benefits and risks of participation?
• Is there clear justification for their inclusion and exclusion criteria?

Ethics and Confidentiality

• Is there consideration of the potential ethical issues related to participation in the study?
• How will informed consent will be obtained?
• Is there sufficient consideration of issues regarding confidentiality: participant integrity; privacy and protection of data?
• Is there sufficient indication of any special measures to be taken to safeguard the interests of any identified vulnerable groups?

Analysis and production of results and outputs

• Is there consideration of the methodology for data analysis?
• Will tests of differences or correlations/relationship measures be applied?
• Is there consideration of which statistics (e.g. t-Test, ANOVA, post-hoc, correlation coefficient, agreement etc.), will be required to do this?
• Feasibility – is the study feasible?
• Has access and use of the data collection tools, equipment, facilities been considered?
• Has the type of personnel needing to support the study been considered?
• Have the costs of equipment and resources been considered?
• Have appropriate time-frames for carrying out the project been considered?

Relevance

• What is the relevance to practice?
• Will the study impact on practice in the future?