What is/are the hypothesis/hypotheses stated by the author(s)? If a hypothesis is not given, what was the objective?

  1. What is the research problem? Why was this research conducted?

 

  1. What is/are the hypothesis/hypotheses stated by the author(s)? If a hypothesis is not given, what was the objective?

 

  1. Who were study participants? B. What were the inclusion/exclusion criteria?

 

  1. What was the study design? (briefly describe)

 

  1. What were the results? (briefly describe)

 

  1. Did the results support the authors’ hypothesis/hypotheses? Why or why not?

 

  1. What was/were the limitation(s) and strength(s) discussed by the author(s)?

 

  1. What conclusion(s) did the author(s) make? B. How can the research findings be applied? If no applications were suggested by the authors, in 3rd person describe how you think the findings could be applied. Based on this study and past research discussed in the Introduction, what are directions for future research?