In the Week 1 discussion forum you had an opportunity to present a potential problem and an innovative solution specific to your role specialization. In addition, you have reviewed the literature to identify qualitative and quantitative research articles and submitted annotated bibliographies to provide evidence supporting the problem.
Considering the feedback provided to you by the faculty member it is now time to prepare your problem statement, research purpose, and research question.
First share your refined problem and proposed solution (given your review of literature this may have changed depending on the evidence you were able to provide). Next, follow the steps to help define your research question.
Craft the problem statement and research purpose.
Design your research question aimed at solving (a part of) the problem and include the following components which will focus the literature review.
PICOT Question:
Patient, Population or Problem
What are the characteristics of the patient or population?
What is the condition or disease you are interested in?
Intervention or exposure
What do you want to do with this patient (e.g. treat, diagnose, observe)?
Comparison
What is the alternative to the intervention (e.g. placebo, different drug, surgery)?
Outcome
What are the relevant outcomes (e.g. morbidity, death, complications)?
Ensure that the research question is answerable, feasible and clinically relevant
The next step in Submissions Area will be to develop a research hypothesis from the research
my research topic is “Are non opioid drugs in conjunction with complementary pain management therapies able to successfully control pain in adults with chronic pain in comparison to patients using opioids over a 6 months period?”
My professor gave me some feedback please see below in parenthesis
(((Population: Adults with chronic pain OK, you may want to modify this based upon what you find in the current research literature. For example, chronic cancer pain may respond differently than chronic pain following trauma
Intervention: Use of non-opioid drugs in conjunction with complementary pain therapies Which complementary therapies? This is something you’ll probably discover in the literature
Comparison: Patient using opioid drugs
Outcome: Control pain by using non-opiods drugs and alternative pain management therapies Better management of pain as evidenced by…..
Time:Over six months OK)))
Please help me rewrite my PICOT question (research question, problem statement, and a research purpose) based on the professor feedback and the annotated bib.
Thabk you
