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• Background information on the topic area
• Scope / rationale for the proposal or importance of the study
• Statement of the research question / hypothesis / research problem
• Methodology o Participants or target population( age, gender, inclusion and exclusion criteria, and so on) o Recruitment and informed consent process o Sampling method and sample size o Research design, including independent variable( s) and dependent variable( s) o Instrumentation or data collection methods( including data collection time points, reliability and validity)
• Proposed data analyses o Descriptive statistics o Inferential statistics o Predicted findings
• Timeline for the proposed study
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