Purpose and Problem Statement

The post must be at least 150 words excluding the references list. References:  APA format 7th ed.  Three current references (not more than five years old, unless classic research or updated clinical guidelines).  No consumer websites.

Gray, J.R. & Grove, S. K., (2021). Burns and Grove’s the practice of nursing research: Appraisal, synthesis, and generation of evidence (9th ed.). St. Louis: Elsevier Saunders

Read the chapter on the research process.  Be sure to focus on box 5.1 concerning significance, purpose and problem statement. Select a variable of interest to you (avoid duplicating other students’ answers) and write a brief(no more than 4 sentences) problem statement using your variable(s).