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The Distinctive Features of a Feasibility Study: Objectives and Guiding Questions
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In this article, we highlight the distinctive features of a feasibility study, identify the main objectives and guiding questions of a feasibility study, and illustrate the use of these objectives. We synthesized the research methods literature related to feasibility studies to identify five overarching objectives of feasibility studies that focus on social and behavioral interventions. Feasibility studies are designed to answer the overarching question: Can it work? The main objectives of feasibility include the assessment of recruitment capability and resulting sample characteristics, data collection procedures and outcome measures, acceptability of the intervention and study procedures, resources and ability to manage and implement the study and intervention, and preliminary evaluation of participant responses to the intervention. For each objective, we identified follow-up questions designed to assist the researchers to understand barriers to the ultimate success of the research.
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How we design feasibility studies
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“An important distinction between feasibility and pilot studies, especially for novel interventions, is that feasibility studies are iterative, formative, and adaptive (Bowen et al., 2009).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Orsmond, G. I., & Cohn, E. S.
- Venue
- OTJR: Occupational Therapy Journal of Research
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2015-05-06
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 169-177
- ISSN
- 1539-4492 (ISSN-L)
- 1938-2383
- OpenAlex
- W2238839018
- Cited by
- 561
- References
- 16
- FWCI
- 19.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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