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RESEARCH SOURCES OF PROBLEMS

PROBLEMS AND ITS ❖ Fields of specialization. Personal


and professional experiences and
VARIABLES interests
❖ Instructional and reading programs
❖ Organizational structure
PROBLEM AND PURPOSE ❖ New technologies
❖ Conflicting books
❖ Theories and principles affecting
Problem is the question or difficulty that the certain phenomena
study seeks to solve ❖ Problem areas in nursing
- The problem is what triggers the
investigation

Purpose refers to the outcome being


intended
- Purpose derives its reason from the
problem but it is not itself the
problem

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE


GUIDEPOSTS IN DETERMINING
RESEARCHABILITY OF A PROBLEM

● There are no available answers to


explain the existing gap in the CRITERIA FOR CHOICE OF
knowledge RESEARCH PROBLEMS
● Available solutions are not known or
are untested EXTERNAL CRITERIA
● Possible results, answers or ● Significance or novelty of the
solutions appear to be, or in fact problem
contradictory ● Problem researchability
● There are several possible and ● Feasibility of the Problem
plausible explanations for the ○ Time
existence of an undesirable ○ Availability of subjects
condition ○ Institutional control and
● A phenomenon exists which requires support group
clarification and/or explanation ○ Research resources
○ Fiscal resources
○ Capability of researcher
○ Ethical considerations
INTERNAL CRITERIA
● The motivation, interest, intellectual
curiosity and perceptiveness of the
researcher
● Time management
● Costs and returns
● Experience, training and
professional qualifications
● Hazard, penalties and handicaps

CHARACTERISTICS AND
QUALITIES OF RESEARCHABLE CHARACTERISTICS OF
PROBLEMS VARIABLES

Originality They have two or more mutually exclusive


- The problem is relatively new and values or properties that can be
represents previously untapped or quantitatively and qualitatively measured
even rarely tapped subjects of - Height, weight, sex, age, civil status,
inquiry blood type, blood pressure reading,
vital signs
Significance
- Research problems may represent a They are varying factors that affect the
response to established priorities in phenomenon, nursing situations or cases
the nursing profession under study
- Pre-operative anxiety levels, body
Manageability temperature, levels of care, weather
- The nature and scope of the study conditions
are specific and well-defined
They are varying qualities of people,
Measurability institutions, situations or statuses
- The study is time-bound and - Ethnicity, government agencies, type
variables can be subjected to of hospitals, levels of care,
quantitative and qualitative analysis community services

Resources availability They can be heterogeneous when the


- Human, material, physical and fiscal attributes or characteristics of a group being
resources needed to pursue the studied are extremely varied
research are adequately provided for - Height and weight among
adolescents are varied depending
on their genetic components
This may either strengthen, weaken or reverse
They can be homogenous if the attributes or the relationship between the independent and
characteristics of the group being studied dependent variable.
have limited variability
- Any variations from the standard Moderator variable must not be a causal result
value may indicate an abnormal of independent variable
growth and development process
that requires thorough nursing
assessment and intervention EXTRANEOUS VARIABLES

Extraneous variables are the factors that are


VARIABLE not part of the study, otherwise called
'undesirable variables" an that affect the
relationship between two variables.
Dependent
Inclusion or exclusion criteria and even the
AKA presumed effect research design are used to control the
influence of extraneous variables.
Variable hypothesized to depend, be caused or
be influenced by another variable (independent) These add noise to the relationship

Independent

AKA presumed cause

Presumed to be the cause or influencing factor


for the dependent variable

It is the intervention/ treatment or the


manipulated variable

INTERVENING/MEDIATING VARIABLE

Whose existence is inferred but it cannot be


measured.

MODERATING VARIABLE

Is defined as that factor which is measured,


manipulated or selected by the researcher to
determine if it affects the relationship between
the primary independent variable and the
dependent variable'

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