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Research Organization Document Phase II
The next section of your research organization document contains the specifics to your
research design. Please use a different color ink to answer the questions below.
Remember to answer these questions in the discussion forum for feedback from the
instructors. You will turn in Phase I and Phase II of the Research Organization
Document at the end of this module. Please note that you cannot move forward with
your data collection until after your topic is approved.
Basic Study Components

1. What research design are you pursuing?
We plan to survey dosimetrists in the field and compile their responses to look for
similarities and differences in musculoskeletal diagnoses and determine contributing
factors. Because our results will be based of the answers received, a qualitative
research approach seems to be the best for this type of investigation.
2. Do any group members need to obtain IRB approval? [To determine if you need IRB
approval from your clinical site to conduct research, ask your clinical preceptor.
**Note: If you need to obtain IRB approval, you CANNOT use that site for DATA
COLLECTION due to issues in past years. The student at that site should have a
different role in the project (writer or data analysis)]. List each student in the
group. No IRB approval ,
Alicia - Writer
Hanaan- Data Analysis
John- Data Collector
3. Will your study be prospective or retrospective?
Retrospective based on survey results.
4. Number of research samples (ex: patients or survey participants) for data collection
Dependent on survey responses. We will design a survey to be distributed via the
AAMD email list as well as our independent clinical sites and classmates clinical sites.
Data Collection Details

1. How many clinical sites will you be collecting data from?
Dependent on survey responses.
2. What information are you interested in (if a planning study, list structures for
evaluation; if a study survey, list your study questions)?
• As a medical dosimetrists have you experienced work related musculoskeletal

injuries? Have you seen physicians for pain/injuries occurring at work?
• What specific musculoskeletal disorder have you been diagnosed with? (table
with check options for different musculoskeletal diagnoses)
• Do musculoskeletal disorders impact you after leaving work, how often?
• Do you have pre-existing conditions that could contribute to musculoskeletal

disorders?
• Is your workstation labeled as ergonomically correct?
• Have you approached your supervisor for ergonomic changes? How easy is it
to implement ergonomic changes in your daily work environment?
• What alterations to your work environment have been made to help with the
musculoskeletal disorder you are suffering from? After alterations have you seen
improvement?
• What additional work environmental changes would you make for ergonomically
purposes?
• What work-related musculoskeletal disorders are seen amongst medical
dosimetrists?
• What alterations or adaptations have medical dosimetrists done to create an
individualized ergonomic workspace and do these adaptations require
management approval?
• Since implementing ergonomic alterations or adaptations have medical
dosimetrist musculoskeletal disorders improved?
3. What are your inclusion criteria? Exclusion criteria? Include all medical dosimetrists
who have had diagnoses musculoskeletal disorders. Exclude all pre-existing
diagnoses.
4. How will you limit the number of variables in your study? (For example, if you are
doing a planning study, only 1 person should be doing the planning to eliminate the
variables.)
When we compile our survey results we will need to analyze to determine possible
variables (i.e. pre-existing conditions)
5. How will you anonymize your patients? (It is often necessary to transfer data sets or
patient information between group members. It is VERY IMPORTANT that you
respect HIPPA protocols! If you need to transfer data sets between facilities, we can
assist you through ProKnow. If you simply need to transfer data using a
spreadsheet, you must anonymize the patient information. It is up to you to decide
how to do this). No patients will be used in our study
6. How will you record your data for evaluation? (All anonymized data should be
housed in OneDrive. The data collector may keep a spreadsheet of the anonymized
datasets in the clinic if needed. This should not be shared with anyone outside of the
clinic) We can create a spreadsheet to document and tabulate the collected data.
7. What resources (in addition to the literature search) are available for you to
use? Aside from literature searches, we intend to rely heavily on our survey results.
We will be using the AAMD resources to send out our surveys to members.
8. Previous research study that will be used for data analysis (ex: RTOG study
constraints): N/A
Group Roles
Roles of each group member (members may have multiple roles)
Group Leader-someone who will keep the group on track, make sure group members
are adhering to deadlines, be the direct point of contact for the instructor with overall
questions, update the research organization document throughout the course of
research) John
Data Collector(s)-someone who will be doing the data collection and data reporting in
excel; maintaining journal entries) -John
Data analysis-someone who will be responsible for analyzing the raw data, running any
statistical tests and providing conclusive data for the writer - Hanaan
Writer-someone who is responsible for writing the outline (later in the course) and the
paper; usually the best writer of the group takes this role **Only 1 group member can
write the paper so that the tone of paper is consistent. - Alicia
Editor This should be ALL group members except the writer - John/Hanaan
***The highlighted roles are the roles that require the most work and should be split
between all 3 group members. If you have a group of 2, the work must be divided
equally.
Project Template
What project template will you be following? (review the quantitative or qualitative
lecture). Qualitative

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Research Organization Document Phase II

Basic Study Components

Hanaan- Data Analysis

John- Data Collector

3. Will your study be prospective or retrospective?

Retrospective based on survey results.

Data Collection Details

Dependent on survey responses.

• As a medical dosimetrists have you experienced work related musculoskeletal

• Do musculoskeletal disorders impact you after leaving work, how often?

• Do you have pre-existing conditions that could contribute to musculoskeletal

• Is your workstation labeled as ergonomically correct?

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