Learning Activity 2.3

This is an article that I found in my search in the Academic Search Complete database:

Exposures to Environmental Toxicants and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in U.S. Children (http://ezproxy.student.twu.ca:2152/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=6&sid=dfb18b79-999d-4e90-a886-bd5ec14eef2b%40sessionmgr4006)

There are 5 authors for this article. They are Joe M. Braun, Robert S. Kahn, Tanya Froehlich, Peggy Auinger, and Bruce P. Lanphear. There credentials are as follows:

Joe M. Braun: College of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA;

Robert S. Kahn: Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA;

Tanya Froehlich:Cincinnati Children’s Environmental Health Center, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA;

Peggy Auinger: Division of Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA;

Bruce P. Lanphear: Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York, USA

This article was published on December 1, 2006. According to the Unit 2 notes, a current article is one that has been published within the past 10 years. According to this general rule, this article would not be considered current.

The authors intentions in the publications of this journal were to study the effects of exposures to tobacco smoke and environmental lead with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. In Clark and Creswell’s Understanding Research (2015), they discuss that intended audiences are usually found in the Introducation. (Clark and Creswell, 2015). Intended audiences for this research article are not listed, however they may include health practitioners, tobacco companies, advocates for prenatal health, pediatricians, ADHD specialists, and other audiences as well.

The article was published by Environmental Health Perspectives. Dec2006, Vol. 114 Issue 12, p1904-1909. This article is peer reviewed. I confirmed this by selecting the peer reviewed articles filter in my search.

The author does not acknowledge obvious biases within the article. They discuss and consider all angles and factors of their research. I believe this research is unbiased. The authors used rigorous statistical analysis and the sample size was significant.