Essential Guidelines for Writing Scientifically and Ethically Sound Research Proposals

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Essential Guidelines for Writing Scientifically and Ethically Sound Research Proposals is designed to assist researchers, academicians, and professionals in preparing high-quality research proposals. It is concise yet comprehensive and covers pertinent scientific and ethical issues. The guideline provides expectations regarding scientific considerations, such as the preliminaries, objectives, research questions, hypothesis, justification, significance, limitations, assumptions, the scope of a study literature review, and choice of research design. The methodology section of the guideline outlines considerations on primary and secondary data collection, sampling, informed consent, assent, privacy and confidentiality, data management, data analysis, and risk-benefit analysis. It further highlights aspects of research proposals that often need to be improved in most proposal guidelines, such as professional, legal, and regulatory requirements, researcher credentials, qualifications and competencies, conflict of interest, and dissemination.