One of the course learning outcomes I was able to do in Scholarly article analysis was practice strengthening sources including evaluating, integrating, quoting paraphrasing, summarizing, synthesizing, analyzing, and citing sources. On the other hand, I did not know what to include specifically when I was told to specify the main events. While writing the first draft, I wrote in details about all the experiment that took place in the study. Later on, my peers said, “You need to elaborate on the experimental section of the article.” Then, for the final draft I tried to expand information on the method section. Similarly, for the second assignment, I did not know how to properly write the review. From using the notes discussed in class and the textbook, I had a general idea of what this essay was going to be about.

Literary Review

The title of the scholarly article is “The prevalence and awareness of sleep apnea in patients suffering chronic pain: an assessment using the STOP-Bang sleep apnea questionnaire”, by Gregory S Tentindo, Scott M Fishman, Chin-Shang Li, Qinlu Wang, and Steven D Brass. In the introduction, the author starts introducing the topic by mentioning a percentage of people who are affected by sleep apnea as stated,(Gregory et al. 217) “Sleep apnea affects 2%–14% in community-screened normal populations, but has a much higher prevalence in certain patient subgroups.” The researchers were able to explicitly state the purpose, the intention of study and its goal as well. However, the hypothesis was not clearly stated. The IMRAD style was not followed in this research journal because there was not an Analysis section.
After the introduction, the section was the Participants and Methods. This section began by providing the name of the provider for this research study, which is The University of California Davis Pain Management Clinic. In addition, there was a short paragraph describing the people, who were involved in this study, “The clinical team includes anesthesiologists, internists, and psychiatrists with expertise in pain management to restore function and
decrease pain.”(Gregory et al. 218). To add on, the description of the main category of the patients were noted in the following way, (Gregory et al. 219) “Most of the patients attending this specialist consultation clinic who were on opioid therapy received their prescriptions from external community providers, such as their primary care physicians.”In this quote, it was specified that the opioid therapy patients were the main for this study. Following this section was a short paragraph describing the procedure. For this research study, the procedure was a self-study from the patient’s response to the survey. Afterward, the measurements of the methods were basically questions on the survey regarding the quality of sleep by using the Epworth Sleepiness Scale; and the impact on the individual as well. (Gregory et al. 219)“The survey also included standardized validated questionnaires related to sleepiness and sleep-disordered breathing.” Overall, the method section of the study ended by addressing very vaguely about the statistical analysis.
In the matter of this scientific journal, the second to last section of this study was the result section. The researchers were referring to two charts for the readers to understand explicitly. From the first chart, The researchers were explaining the demographic characteristics of both the opioid users and regular patients as well. Similarly, in the second diagram, the patient’s awareness of the sleep apnea risks was shown from the chart. Subsequently, after each result, there was a small explanation of what the percentage meant for the reader to be informed. Lastly, in the discussion section, the authors briefly captured the major findings. As well as, the researchers were able to admit the advantages and limitation of the methods used in this study. All in all, the journal concluded by stating that there are some research questions that remained,(Gregory et al. 223) “ Future research is needed to validate a screening tool to properly identify those chronic pain patients at increased risk of sleep apnea….”

Tentindo, Gregory S, et al. “The Prevalence and Awareness of Sleep Apnea in Patients Suffering Chronic Pain: an Assessment Using the STOP-Bang Sleep Apnea Questionnaire.” Nature and Science of Sleep, Volume 10, 2018, pp. 217–224., doi:10.2147/nss.s167658.