Getting Started in Research PDF

Baileys research for the health professional 3rd edition (Chapters 1-3 Hissong, Lape, Bailey, 2015) Steps of doing research 2. Hitting saturation point (may happen for a while) 3. Use what you learn to develop a question or hypothesis based on the literature know something about the topic before w...

Baileys research for the health professional 3rd edition (Chapters 1-3 Hissong, Lape, Bailey, 2015) Steps of doing research 2. Hitting saturation point (may happen for a while) 3. Use what you learn to develop a question or hypothesis based on the literature know something about the topic before writing question 4. Design some way to test hypotheses How are we going to learn about it(what? Quantitative, why? qualitative) methodology that makes sense and gives accurate results Things to keep in mind Identifying a topic: Passion with one's profession Second slide: Research by its nature tends to be very deep dives into very specific aspects of a topic Start with books(chapters) (if its a topic that is new to you) as a place to get an idea of what interventions may look like. Extracting and summarizing the needed information…Helps when you can come to some kind of agreement as to what information comes from each article (annotated bibliography) Organizing to build a coherent story (critical step in building literature review) What goes into a research study Introduction Basic background Why the reader should care (hook) Why is it relevant or important Literature review How you start the literature Synthesis of reviewed literature (identify theme, what was in common, topics) based on the info you learned (digestion and create) (don't want it to list a stack of annotated bibliographies on top of each other). Methodology Description of procedure you're going to use the way you are going to conduct research How many How are you dividing intervention/ control Assessment tools Timeframe Written future tense How you're going to set up structure of study Hit assumptions Stuff hard to true but true and relevant to topic After IRB Implementation and Results Purely factual Results of conducting research Describe subjects (how many divided/ allocations? Baseline comparisons) In terms of relevant characteristics Median age Discussion/ conclusions Not a repeat of the results Something has gone sideways if there is repetition or redundancy Analysis of results (compare what you found based on what was in existing literature) Relate what we have found to what other researchers have found and are applying similar principles No new citations or findings refer to lit review Express now well informed opinion about your finding and meaning How did these findings impact OT Limitations (things that legitimately had an impact) not made up from results References Abstract is the very first thing in research study but it is the very last thing you write.