I’m struggling with finding the right research question and then doing a literature review. I was working on the folloiwng research question “What is the correlation between walking and easing depression symptoms in adults.”
- Integrate what
you learn from each of these studies, and summarize the strengths and
limitations of this research in your area of interest. In this section,
discuss the relationship between what you learned from the empirical
literature review and practice wisdom. Other topics you may address in
this section of the assignment include the role of theory in the research
you reviewed, the significance of this body of knowledge as a whole for
social welfare policy and/or social work practice, and the inclusiveness
of various sub-groups in the study samples. - Provide a
brief summary of “what we know” from the research you reviewed. Then
identify what we don’t know on the basis of the empirical literature to
date. Does the research you reviewed adequately answer the research
question(s) you formulated in Part I of this assignment? For some groups
of people or everyone? In one place or many places? Under what conditions?
What additional studies need to be planned to further our knowledge in
your area of interest? - Given
what you have learned, provide a description of gaps in empirical
knowledge, and how these gaps could be addressed in the future. How could
the research you have reviewed, and your identification of knowledge gaps,
impact social work practice? How could future research be informed by
social work practice?
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