THE RESEARCH TOPIC IS ATTACHED. Please follow the directions listed below.
For the body of the assignment, you will include a 1-page (maximum) description of necessary background information on your topic based on existing literature. Note that this is not expected to be a thorough literature review, but rather a concise summary of important information about your topic that is needed to set the context for your proposed research study.
This assignment should be written as a 4-6 page scholarly paper excluding title page and references (do not just provide an outline). APA form and style are expected to be followed, including the correct use of in-text citations and references.
The following is an example of a content outline for this paper. While you are not required to follow this outline exactly, all of the following content should be included in some way in the scholarly paper:
- Background (one page maximum)
- Statistics and information about the health outcome/disease(s)
- Statistics and information about the exposure/risk factor(s)
- Brief discussion of possible connection between exposure(s) and outcome(s) and justification for the study
- Target population and sample size
- Description of target population and sample
- Inclusion and exclusion criteria
- The sampling strategy to be used
- Sample size considerations (how large of a sample do you need and why)
- Description of target population and sample
- Recruitment (primary data collection) or data selection (secondary data) strategies
- If collecting your own data, describe:
- How you will find and contact potential participants (where, when, with what method)
- The type of data collection method to be used (e.g., online survey)
- How many times participants will be contacted and by what method
- If using secondary data (an existing database), describe:
- The procedures used for recruitment, participation, and data collection by the owners of the database (i.e., how were the data in the database collected?)
- How you will gain access to the dataset
- If collecting your own data, describe:
- Selection biases
- Description of potential selection bias concerns (i.e., how representative your sample will be of the larger population)
- Discussion of strategies you will use to minimize selection bias in your study
- References