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Conceptualization of a Research Study: An Exemplar


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1 Instructor, The Aga Khan University School of Nursing, Karachi, Pakistan
2 Director of Nursing, and Assistant Hospital Director, Al-Noor Hospital Alain UAE
3 Assistant Professor, The Aga Khan University School of Nursing and at the Community Health Sciences Department, Karachi, Pakistan
4 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Cardiology Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
5 Professor and Gill Endowed Chair, University of Kentucky, College of Nursing, Editor, The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Co-Director, RICH Heart Program and Director, Center for Biobehavioral Research in Self-Management of Cardiopulmonary Diseases University of Kentucky, College of Nursing, Kentucky, United States
     

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Conceptualization of a research study is the most critical phase, which includes several meticulous steps. The first step in the process is to identify the common research problems that prevail in a particular context, either through clinical observations or through literature review; each of these sources may be used to validate the problem identified through the other. The next step involves an in depth literature search to identify the work previously done in the field, determining the gap in the existing body of literature and establishing the need for the proposed study. The final step of the conceptualization phase is concerned with establishing the significance of the proposed study. This paper reports the conceptualization of a research study conducted in Karachi, to identify the gender differences among Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) patients, in terms of their prehospital delay times and in the associated factors of delay.

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Conceptualization, Research Study, Gender Differences, Acute Coronary Syndrome, Prehospital Delay Time
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Authors

Saleema Allana
Instructor, The Aga Khan University School of Nursing, Karachi, Pakistan
Khurshid Khowaja
Director of Nursing, and Assistant Hospital Director, Al-Noor Hospital Alain UAE
Tazeen Saeed Ali
Assistant Professor, The Aga Khan University School of Nursing and at the Community Health Sciences Department, Karachi, Pakistan
Aamir Hameed Khan
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Cardiology Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
Debra Moser
Professor and Gill Endowed Chair, University of Kentucky, College of Nursing, Editor, The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Co-Director, RICH Heart Program and Director, Center for Biobehavioral Research in Self-Management of Cardiopulmonary Diseases University of Kentucky, College of Nursing, Kentucky, United States

Abstract


Conceptualization of a research study is the most critical phase, which includes several meticulous steps. The first step in the process is to identify the common research problems that prevail in a particular context, either through clinical observations or through literature review; each of these sources may be used to validate the problem identified through the other. The next step involves an in depth literature search to identify the work previously done in the field, determining the gap in the existing body of literature and establishing the need for the proposed study. The final step of the conceptualization phase is concerned with establishing the significance of the proposed study. This paper reports the conceptualization of a research study conducted in Karachi, to identify the gender differences among Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) patients, in terms of their prehospital delay times and in the associated factors of delay.

Keywords


Conceptualization, Research Study, Gender Differences, Acute Coronary Syndrome, Prehospital Delay Time

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