Question

Malcolm works for a major pharmaceutical company and is in charge of designing a clinical protocol to study depression. the new medication under investigation has the potential to alleviate the symptoms of depression. malcolm needs to describe how depression as well as how the improvement of depressive symptoms will be defined in the study in order to recruit the right subjects. in other words, malcolm needs to provide a(n)

Answer 1

Malcom needs to provide an OPERATIONAL DEFINITION. In research study operational definition is defined as application of the operations used in defining the terms of a process or validation sets needed to determine the nature of a parameter and its features. It is a clear, exact definition of a measure or methods in a research study.