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Group 1!

Evaluating the Topic:

Assesing the Article:

·     Chalk (doesn’t have a scientific name at the beginning of the article)

·     They use the DSM-IV instead of the DSM V (will need to update entire article based on DSM V guidelines if they have changed)

·     Areas that need citations:

o  Stressors such as emotional trauma, maternal deprivation, family issues, parental neglect, pregnancy, and a disorganized family structure are strongly linked to pica as a form of comfort.[citation needed]

o  In 13th-century Latin work,[clarification needed] pica was referenced by the Greeks and Romans;[when?] however, it was not addressed in medical texts until 1563.[5]

·     Perhaps include sections for Pica in autism, pica in pregnant women, and other common associated conditions

·     Autism should be referred to as Autism Spectrum disorder

·     Initial paragraph does not flow well

·     Signs and symptoms (the content here is not technically signs and symptoms and should perhaps be under the heading “Pica Subcategories”

·     Complications section is very short (likely could find more information)

·     Diagnosis and DSM sections needs to be updated based on DSM V

·     Epidemiology section (should see if more recent research has been done since 1994)

·     “Intellectual disability adults” should be changed

Medstudent 868

ARTICLE EVALUATION:

SGL Group 1: Pica Wikipedia Article Analysis

Assessment of the Article:

●      DSM-V

○      currently DSM-IV is referenced => need to change to DSM V

○      Autism should be referred to as Autism Spectrum Disorder

○      No link for OCD or exposure treatment

●      Opening paragraph:

○      Inconsistent information with the rest of the article

○      More organizational structure needed

○      Contradicting information (i.e. animals and pica)

●      Signs and symptoms

○      They do not acknowledge that people might have different types and they do not suggest a mineral deficiency that could cause that or why they might be eating this

○      Signs and symptoms (the content here is not technically signs and symptoms and should perhaps be under the heading “Pica Subcategories”)

●      Causes:

○      Need to be clearer regarding whether deficiencies are the actual cause

○      Causes could be updated - if they are relying on the DSM IV it could be that they are behind on causes in general

○      “Maternal deprivation” should be “parental neglect”

●      Diagnosis:

○      Not long enough

○      Little supporting evidence

○      Treatment is discussed under diagnosis (example: checking lead blood levels)

○      “DSM” title does not indicate which dsm is being referred to

●      Treatment:

○      Not enough citations

○      Discussed too many causes when that does not fit in the section

○      Treatment strategies were not cited and therefore sounded like opinion

○      Disorganized (should be organized based on the population, i.e. children, pregnant woman)

●      Complications: (important section)

○      Very short, needs more information

○      Perhaps needs to make a table with harms and subcategories that cause them

●      History:

○      Describes many culturally accepted instances of eating non-nutritive substances and inappropriately labelled them as Pica

○      Could include the history of the changing diagnosis of Pica

●      Epidemiology

○      Prevalence rates in children were reported as unknown and then they went on the cite

○      The article only mentions a few places where Pica has been reported (need to look for other regions/countries)

■      http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1016/j.ijgo.2015.10.012/full

●      Other animals

○      Need to look for research saying whether Pica in animals is actually Pica (i.e. dogs only have Pica if they eat only one thing consistently for months)

○      Should include more information about animals

●      Citations

○      Many more citations are required (a lot of information is uncited)

○      Used a lot of single studies (not appropriate for Wikipedia)

○      Single studies were listed (like the article was a review)

○      Authors made their own conclusions

●      Generally:

○      all research needs to be updated

○      The tone of the article was persuasive (e.g. “the most subtle symptoms,” “the most important symptoms”)

○      Grammar errors throughout article

○      Lack of comprehensive reviews for some of the information included (e.g. no citation for geomelophagia)

○      Disorganized writing

○      Need to clarify that this is an eating disorder and be consistent with this language

○      “In children” is used in instances when it should be in anyone

○      Comorbidity was never used when discussing other disorders and should be used to be more scientific

○      Many scientific and medical words were not linked (ex: dysentery)

○      Not many contributions to the talk page, none recently

●      Additional sections to add:

○      Popular Culture/Social views on Pica (e.g. My Strange Addiction, Guinness Book of World Records)

○      History of DSM diagnosis

~MedStudent 868

I'm going to add my citation here for DSM-5 so that I can cite this sentence but have it generate my reference for our bibliography Ksalm (talk)