NURS 3370 CHP 5: SELECTING AND DEFINING A PROBLEM
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE
Problem Statement
a statement of the topic under study, outlining all relevant variables within the study,
providing justification for the choice of topic, and guiding the selection of the research
design
-provides direction for research design
-stated at the beginning of research report
-justifies study
-cites background information about the problem
-contributes to practice, theory, or both
Problem Statement (Feasibility of study)
•Is the problem appropriate for study?
• Are there subjects available for the study
• What are the time and money constraints?
What are the researchers' areas of expertize?
• What resources are available?
• What ethical considerations exit?
Quantitative Pilot Randomized Control Trial problem
Breast and nipple pain when initiating breast-feeding
Descriptive qualitative study phenomenology problem
, Students ability to identifying patient care needs
Operational definitions
Explanations of concepts or variables in terms of how they are defined for a particular
study
Literature review
A critical summary of the most important scholarly literature on a particular topic.
Scholarly literature can refer to research-based publications and conceptual or
theoretical literature
-both a process in a product
-method to gather permanent articles and report on how the current research and other
papers support your topic
Why do we do literature reviews?
-Identify and evaluate relevant research studies that contain information pertaining to
the problem under investigation
-verify significance of problem to nursing science
-provide information to demonstrate the need for the study to be undertaken
Purpose of review of literature
- Determines what is known & not known
- Determines gaps
- Discovers unanswered questions about a subject
- Describes the strengths & weaknesses of designs used in
earlier work
- Determines the need for replication of a well-designed study
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE
Problem Statement
a statement of the topic under study, outlining all relevant variables within the study,
providing justification for the choice of topic, and guiding the selection of the research
design
-provides direction for research design
-stated at the beginning of research report
-justifies study
-cites background information about the problem
-contributes to practice, theory, or both
Problem Statement (Feasibility of study)
•Is the problem appropriate for study?
• Are there subjects available for the study
• What are the time and money constraints?
What are the researchers' areas of expertize?
• What resources are available?
• What ethical considerations exit?
Quantitative Pilot Randomized Control Trial problem
Breast and nipple pain when initiating breast-feeding
Descriptive qualitative study phenomenology problem
, Students ability to identifying patient care needs
Operational definitions
Explanations of concepts or variables in terms of how they are defined for a particular
study
Literature review
A critical summary of the most important scholarly literature on a particular topic.
Scholarly literature can refer to research-based publications and conceptual or
theoretical literature
-both a process in a product
-method to gather permanent articles and report on how the current research and other
papers support your topic
Why do we do literature reviews?
-Identify and evaluate relevant research studies that contain information pertaining to
the problem under investigation
-verify significance of problem to nursing science
-provide information to demonstrate the need for the study to be undertaken
Purpose of review of literature
- Determines what is known & not known
- Determines gaps
- Discovers unanswered questions about a subject
- Describes the strengths & weaknesses of designs used in
earlier work
- Determines the need for replication of a well-designed study
