An enigmatic, perplexing, or troubling condition

Sources of Research Problems

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

1. Experience and clinical fieldwork

2. Nursing Literature

3. Social Issues

4. Theory

5. Ideas from External Sources

Problem Statement Requirements

1. Should identify the _1_, _2_, and _3_ of problem being addressed.

2. Should be broad enough to include _4_ .

3. Should be _5_ enough to searve as a guide to study design.

1. Nature

2. Context

3. Significance

4. Central

5. Narrow

Statements of Purpose- Quantitative Studies:

1. Identify key _1_ variables.

2. Identify possible _2_ among _3_.

3. Indicate the _4_ of _5_.

4. Suggest, through the _6_ of _7_, the nature of the inquiry.

1. study

2. relationships

3. variables

4. population

5. interest

6. use

7. verbs

Statements of Purpose - Qualitative:

1. Identify the _1_ phenomenon.

2. Indicate the research _2_.(e.g., grounded theory, ethnography)

3. Indicate the _3_, _4_, or _5_.

4. Suggst, through the use of verbs, the nature of the inquiry. (e.g., to describe, to discover, to explore)

1. central

2. tradition

3. group

4.community

5.setting of interest

Research questions are sometimes direct rewordings of _1_, worded as questions.

Research questions are stometimes used to clarify or lend specificity to the _2_.

In _3_ studies, research questions pose queries about the relationships among variables.

1. statement of purpose

2. purpose statment

3. quantitative

Research questions in _1_ studies pose queries linked to the research tradition:

1. _2_ theory: process questions.

2. _3_: meaning questions

3. _4_: cultural description questions

1.Qualitative

2. Grounded

3. Phenomenology

4. Ethnography

Hypothesis

A hypothesis must always involve at least _1_ variables.

Must suggest a predicted relationship between the _2_ and the _3_.

Must contain terms that indicate a _4_. (e.g. more than, different from, associated with)

1. 2.

2. independent variable

3. dependent variable

4. relationship

_1_ hypothesis expresses a predicted relationship between one independent variable and one dependent variable.

_2_ hypothesis states a predicated relationship between two or more independent variables and/or two or more dependent variables.

1. Simple

2. Complex

_1_ hypothesis predicts the direction of a relationship.

_2_ hypothesis predicts the existence of a relationship, not its direction.

1.Directional

2. Nondirectional

_1_ hypothesis states the actual prediction of a relationship.

_2_ expresses the absence of a relationship (use only in statistical testing)

1. Research

2. Statistical or Null