Review the “Guidelines for Critiquing Research Problems, Research Questions, & Hypotheses (Polit & Beck, Box 4.2, pg. 67).
- Begin your appraisal of the O’Lynn et al. (2011) article Preview the documentby answering the following questions:
Is the research problem clear and concise?
Is the problem statement written as a declarative statement or a formal question?
Is the population of interest clearly described?
Do you think that O’Lynn et al. (2011) provided a sufficient rationale for the significance of their research problem?
Be sure to back up your responses with specific examples from the article that support your answers. See example below:
Example: Is the research problem clear and concise?
Jones, Duffy, & Flanagan (2011) clearly describes the research problem of how to assist ambulatory surgery patients to deal with post-operative symptoms. (Jones, Duffy, & Flanagan, 2011 as cited in Polit & Beck, 2014, p. 111).
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