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Frameworks for creating answerable (re)search questions

ECLIPSE

ECLIPSE Framework

-helpful for qualitative research topics examining the results of a policy or service:

 

Expectation - What do you hope to enhance or modify? What will be done with the information?

Client group - To whom is the policy/service intended?

LocationOf service/policy 

Impact - What is the alteration in policy or service that the researcher is looking into?

Professionals - Who is responsible for delivering or enhancing the policy or service?

Service - Type of policy/service

 

Example

Expectation

to increase access to wireless internet in the hospital

Client group

patients and families

Location

hospitals

Impact

clients have easy access to free internet

Professionals

IT, hospital administration

Service

provision of free wireless internet to patients

 

Booth A., Noyes J., Flemming K., Moore G., Tunçalp Ö. and Shakibazadeh E. (2019) 'Formulating questions to explore complex interventions within qualitative evidence synthesis',  BMJ Global Health, 4(Suppl 1), pp. 1-7. DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001107.