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Scoping Review (ScR)

The guide provides general help on scoping review such as the steps to completing the review process.

Scoping Review Research Question (RQ)

Scoping Review RQ can be board because the main objective of a Scoping Review is to understand the extent of how much has been written on a specific topic:

What has been addressed (in the research)? 

What populations have been studied?  

Any progress made in the research? And enough literature to do a systematic review?

Three primary elements of a Scoping Review RQ (not all 3 elements need to be included): Population, Intervention, and Outcome.

Example RQ: What has been written in the literature about Gastroenteric Tube Feeding for advanced Alzheimer's patients?

Develop a Basic Research Question

Steps for Developing a Research Question

The steps for developing a research question, listed below, can help you organize your thoughts.

Step 1: Pick a topic (or consider the one assigned to you).

Step 2: Write a narrower/smaller topic that is related to the first.

Step 3: List some potential questions that could logically be asked in relation to the narrow topic.

Step 4: Pick the question that you are most interested in.

Step 5: Change that question you’re interested in so that it is more focused.

 

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