o Background : The background statement answers the following questions : How do you know a real problem , situation , or opportunity will be studied ? Does evidence indicate you have chosen an important problem , situation , or opportunity that deserves more attention ? What evidence indicates that the problem , situation , or opportunity relates to an organizational management issue or clinical concern ?
o Methodology : This part of a research study provides an overview of the scope of the study or how large , long , and comprehensive the study was . This is a brief overview explaining the gathering of the qualitative and quantitative data and where the data may be found . Implicit in this overview is the recognition by the researcher that both secondary data — document-based data , organizational material , library books , and journals — and primary data — empirical , qualitative , and quantitative data incorporated by a survey , experiment , and so on in a real-time fashion — was gathered to make the study comprehensive , fully researched , and as rigorous as a project must be within the scientific method of data planning , gathering , and analysis .
� Respond to the following questions in a 700- to 1,050-word paper :
o Definition of the problem