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These questions are the specific queries researchers want to answer which guide the types of data to be collected in a study.
What are research questions?
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This is a written summary of the state of evidence on a research problem.
What is a literature review?
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This is missing from the following hypothesis: Pregnant woman who receive prenatal instruction about postpartum experiences are not likely to experience postpartum depression.
What is a relational statement?
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This establishes the general direction of the inquiry and captures, usually in one or two sentences, the study's substance.
What is the purpose statement?
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These differ on who describes the studies conducted.
What is primary and secondary sources?
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These are not proved or verified, they are supported by research findings.
What are hypotheses? Rationale: Hypotheses cannot be proved or disproved by statistical testing, and no question can be definitely answered in a single study.
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This is where researchers most often state their purpose or research questions.
What is the end of the introduction or immediately after the review of literature?
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CINAHL and MEDLINE are examples of these.
What are databases?
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This looks at research findings, quality improvement data and other forms of evaluation data, and expert opinion to identify methods of improvement.
What is evidence-based practice? Rationale: For an evidence-based practice (EBP) project, a recent, high-quality systematic review may be sufficient to provide the needed information about the evidence base, although it is usually wise to search for studies published after the review.
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These are the six components of problem statements, especially for quantitative studies.
What are problem identification, background, scope of the problem, consequences of the problem, knowledge gabs, and proposed solution?
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Noting the databases searched, keywords used, limits instituted, studies used to launch a "discordancy" search, and any other information that would help keep track.
What is documentation in literature retrieval?
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The following is an example of a purpose statement from this study: "The purpose of this study was to determine whether viewing a video of an actual pediatric inhalation induction would reduce the level of parental anxiety"
What is a quantitative study? Rationale: This statement identifies the population of interest (parents of child required inhalation induction), the independent variable (viewing the video versus not viewing the video), and the dependent variable (parental anxiety).
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The research questions in these studies include the phenomenon and the group of interest.
What are qualitative studies?
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This person points out what has been studied, how adequate and dependable the studies are, and what gaps exist in the body of research.
What is the reviewer?
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The following is an example of a research question from this study: "What role does spirituality play in the remission of cancer in patients?"
What is a phenomenological study? Rationale: This question used constructivist methods to describe the phenomena (spirituality) without focusing on cultures, meaning, or social processes.