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clinical question: Does pain medication administration during surgery incision minimizes the requirement for pain medication twenty-four hours after the operation?
1)What are the independent and dependent variable in Above clinical question? explain
2) what are the characteristics of an original research study? Explain
3) Does any article clearly identify the research methods, results and discussion of the findings? Reference the research study in APA format.
provide reference in APA format
1. A variable is anything that has a quality or quantity. It is of two types :-
- dependent variable - a variable in which the researcher is interested in, like in the above mentioned clinical question
Example- minimise the post operative pain
- independent variables - which affects the dependent variable
Example on the basis of above mentioned clinical question - pain medication administration during surgery incision.
2. Characteristics of research study are :-
- it must be written by the same individual who has conducted the study.
- it has a definite structure including problem ,methods , design used etc.
- it reports research findings
- it includes a hypothesis , research questions , background study ,methods , results , their interpretation , discussion and conclusions .
- it interprets the findings and discuss the possible implications.
3. Research methods are :-
- qualitative methods -means collection of non -numerical data , includes focus groups , individual depth interview, case studies and observations
- quantitative methods- means collection of numerical data ,include experiments , simulation, mechanical observations, personal interview ,mail etc
Research results are the findings of the study by gathering information as a result of methodology . It must arranged in logical sequence and state the findings simply without bias and interpretation.
Research results discussion - is to interpret and describe the significance of the study findings. Any changes seen after conducting the study ,any new information gathered that needs to be implicated.
References - S Lewis- health promotion practice ,2015 -journal sagepub .com
- AJ onwuegbuzie ,LG Daniel-research in schools, 2005 -mersa .org
- International journal for quality in health care ,volume 16,issue 3, 1 june 2004 ,pages 191-192