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This is a masters level module "Advanced concepts in research: methodology and methods"
Assignment: Research protocol/Project proposal the research question for the assignment is "What are the benefits of completing a treatment escalation plan (TEP) for patients over 65 admitted with a fractured neck of femur (NOF) to hospital"
Guidelines
Word limit: 3,000 words. See Word Count section below for details
Your research/project proposal will set out a plan for the project you intend to carry out in the final module of your programme. The proposal consists of two parts:
1. A literature review which will detail a repeatable search and synthesis of published literature. It is intended to help you develop skills in reviewing and evaluating the state of research evidence. The literature review provides background for your proposal and demonstrates the need for research/systematic review/project in this area.
2. A research protocol/project proposal which uses the resulting synthesis of research from your literature research to define research questions/project aims and objectives, and provides a project plan for the execution of your proposed work. The purpose of the protocol/proposal is to define a repeatable and structured investigation which you will undertake as your project in your final module on the programme (APP753 or SPP702).
Process
You should work on this assignment in two parts, completing the literature review first and subsequently building a protocol/proposal that has used the current state of evidence as its foundation. The final written assignment will be presented as one document to integrate the literature review and the project proposal.
Part 1: Literature Review* – approximately 1500 words
• Identify a topic for your review and write the research question that your review will answer.
• Develop a search strategy for your review: inclusion and exclusion criteria, search terms, databases to search. You may find it helpful to use PICO(S) or similar tool.
• Complete your search, keeping records of the number of results and use these to populate a PRISMA flow chart.
• Decide how you are going to critically appraise the papers which meet your inclusion criteria.
• Read and critically appraise each included paper, keeping notes of key critical points and the findings from each paper. Your critique should enable you to draw conclusions about the strength of the findings. Compare findings/results across studies and write a synthesis of these in each relevant area. This synthesis should provide a concise summary of the state and strength of the evidence in the area.
Part 2: Research Protocol/Project proposal* approximately 1500 words
Please follow either 2a for a research/systematic review protocol or 2b for a project proposal. If you are not following any specific programme you can choose either option.
Part 2a Research/Systematic review Protocol (for those intending to take APP753 Disseration module)
• Define research questions stemming from your literature review.
• Consider what the philosophical foundations are for the questions/aims you have defined – is your project going to be predominantly interpretivist or positivist in approach or something else?
• Choose your methodology to fit with your identified philosophical approach, then select data collection methods that are appropriate for that approach and your chosen questions.
• Use published research texts/journal articles to help you when making these choices. These texts will also help you to write each of the sections outlined below which follow on from the identification of your chosen methodology and methods.
Part 2b Project proposal (for those intending to take SPP702 Substantive Professional Project)
• Define your aims and objectives based on the findings from your literature review. Please note that a practice development proposal should focus on applying knowledge not generating new knowledge.
• Consider the philosophical foundations for your aims and objectives – is your project going to be underpinned by an emancipatory or a technical approach to practice development or something else?
• Choose your methodology to fit with your identified approach (e.g. Action Research, PARiHS Framework, PDSA etc), then select the methods appropriate for that approach and your aims and objectives.
• Use published research texts/journal articles to help you when making these choices. These texts will also help you to write each of the sections outlined below which follow on from the identification of your chosen methodology and methods.
Format and Structure/Marking criteria
• Please write in a sans serif font such as Arial, Calibri or Verdana with no smaller font size than 12 point with 1.5 line spacing. This will make it easier for markers to read your work.
• Please use headings to structure your work.
• Use the tools provided within Microsoft Word to help you to define the level of each heading and to create a contents list at the beginning of your work.
• Please use Cite Them Right https://plymouth.libguides.com/referencing Harvard style referencing and bibliographic software such as EndNote to Cite While You Write and create your reference list.
• Appendices should appear after the reference list. Appendices should be used for information provided to supplement your proposal/protocol. Where the reader needs to read it all to understand your proposal/protocol it should be included in the text not as an Appendix. Examples of things to include as an Appendix are: Gantt chart, detailed literature search strategy, Critiquing tools, Tables of included papers (this may include author, date, aim/research question, country of origin, methodology/methods, sample characteristics & size, main findings and key points of critique), participant information sheet, consent forms, study posters etc as relevant to your proposal/protocol. Please note that all Appendices must be referred to in the text, numbered in the order you refer to them in the text.
Word count 3,000 words
Writing to a pre-set word limit, along with other module criteria, is an intellectual skill that is designed to encourage you to present your assessment concisely and coherently. It is one of a number of important assessment criteria against which your work will marked.
The word limit is exclusive of :
(i) Headings, titles and statements on the cover and contents page;
(ii) Index lists and diagram labels;
(iii) Short text boxes in the body of an assignment;
(iv) References and/or bibliography lists; and
(v) Permitted appended material.
Where word count exceeds the word limit, work will be read up to the limit, which will include completion of that sentence. The remainder will not be marked which may adversely affect your grade.
An accurate word count must be given on the title page of the assessment. You will be penalised by a 5% reduction in marks if this is not included.
Sources of help and support
• Feedback and feedforward group tutorials within the module timetable
• The Writing Café
• Faculty of Health Librarians or your NHS Trust Librarians
• Fellow tutorial group members
• For any other issues which cannot be addressed through the above routes contact the module leader or in their absence another member of the module team.
Expected minimum content for your assignment
See below for the minimum expected content for your final research protocol/project proposal and the marks available for each section.
*As part of lecture materials and/or during group tutorials, you will be given an outline and structure for completion of each part and the way they should be presented in your final assignment.
Content Marks
Structure and presentation
Content list with page numbers for each item (created using Word ‘Table of Contents’ function)
Headings used to structure your work (created using Word Heading levels)
Font size and type as outlined above
Reference list using Cite them Right Harvard style references
Appendices after Reference list 10
Introduction
Introduce your topic area and explain why it is important to undertake a research project/systematic review or practice project in this area.
Define the problem, explain the size of the problem, the health policy context and the specific area that needs to be addressed.
State the research question or hypothesis if you are doing a research project, or a research questions for a systematic review or aim(s) and objectives for a practice project. 10
Literature review
Methods
• Define critical literature review
• Place your review in its context within existing research.
• Explain the methods you have used including your inclusion/exclusion criteria (use PICO(S) or similar tool – include in the text), list your search terms in the combinations you used with Boolean operators where relevant, list the databases searched.
• State how many papers met the criteria and refer to your PRISMA flowchart (include this flow chart in your text).
Review results/findings
• Give brief information about the papers included such as the number of papers from each country included and methodologies used.
• Present a synthesis of the results/findings from the review incorporating key critical points (those which have influenced the strength of the findings/results or limited their relevance). 30
Methodology
Explain the methodology you are planning to use with a rationale for your choice. Define the methodology and explain its philosophical approach. If you are planning a systematic review, explain your choice of systematic review approach. Your choice must align with your research question/aims/objectives.
10
Methods
State the research/systematic review/project methods you are planning to use with a rationale for your choices. This should include data collection methods or intervention evaluation strategies. For systematic reviews this should include the methods you intend to use to search and review the literature.
Projects involving participants will need to include:
• Setting
• Sampling method, size and characteristics
• Strengths and weaknesses of your chosen data collection methods.
Systematic review proposals will need to include:
• Detailed search strategy
• Strengths and weaknesses of your chosen approach.
All assignments must include
• patient and public involvement
• a Gantt chart showing the key stages in your project/review against a realistic time frame – this should be an Appendix which you refer to in the text.
• an analysis of potential sources of bias and how these will be addressed.
20
Ethical considerations
Detail the ethical considerations involved in your proposed project and explain how these will be addressed.
Use the HRA decision tool to check to see if you need to apply for HRA and/or REC approval and include the outcome.
Systematic review proposals will need to include a strategy for ethical review of papers included.
10
Analysis
Explain how you plan to analyse the data or published papers you have gathered, including how you intend to synthesise the results/findings.
Anticipated limitations of your project should also be included here.
5
Dissemination strategy
Provide a detailed dissemination strategy for the results/findings from your project/review.
5