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Narrowing my Research Question

Norma Besniard
Jun 16
1 min read

As I continued reading, I realized that my research question was still too broad. There are many things that can affect recovery, so I needed to choose what I really wanted to focus on.

I became especially interested in self-efficacy, which is how confident someone feels about their ability to do something, and social support from family, friends, or other people around them.

I also decided to focus more specifically on people recovering from hip or knee replacement. This made my research feel much clearer because I now had a specific group of patients and specific factors to explore.

My question started becoming: How do self-efficacy and social support influence functional independence and quality of life during recovery from hip or knee replacement?

I feel like I now have a direction instead of just a general interest in recovery.

 
 

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