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• 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
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