BSHS 435 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Research Proposal

Read “A 15-Step Model for Writing a Research Proposal” in this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings.

Submit a 2800- to 3500-word research proposal on a human-services-related topic of your choice. Include the following:
•    Title page
•    Abstract
•    Introduction and literature review:
      o    Refer to the Learning Team assignments for Week Two: Research Problem and Literature Review.
      o    Make sure that this section address the following:
•    Background information on the topic area
•    Scope/rationale for the proposal or importance of the study
•    Statement of the research question /hypothesis/research problem
•    Methodology
      o    Participants or target population (age, gender, inclusion and exclusion criteria, and so on)
      o    Recruitment and informed consent process
      o    Sampling method and sample size
      o    Research design, including independent variable(s) and dependent variable(s)
      o    Instrumentation or data collection methods (including data collection time points, reliability and validity)
•    Proposed data analyses
      o    Descriptive statistics
      o     Inferential statistics
      o    Predicted findings
•    Timeline for the proposed study
•    References

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines and include a title page and a reference page (No abstract is necessary).