Help with research question frameworks

Introduction to research question frameworks

Once you have ideas about a topic you would like to investigate you need to frame it so you have an answerable research question. Frameworks provide a structure to organise individual concepts into a balanced and focused research question. They use acronyms that act as prompts to consider multiple concepts in more detail.

These prompts help you to explain your research clearly concerning things like:

• Who is being looked at (population)
• What is being investigated (intervention or exposure)
• Comparison (if any)
• So what (outcome or effects)
• Context (setting)

Well known frameworks include PEO, PICO, SPICE and SPIDER.