title: [The observation as a strategy to generate research questions: experience in psychiatry].
abstract: The observation as a strategy to generate research questions: an experience in a psychiatric ward.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The daily activity could, and should, be the natural setting where research hypotheses are generated, specifically in areas of care where the frequency of problems Evidence Based Practice "orphans" is high, such as psychiatry.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To test the possibility and the yeld of identifying-formulating research needs and hypotheses from - within nursing duties.
  
  
  METHODS
  Prospective registration of clinical conditions decisions to be taken from a position of substantial uncertainty over a pilot period of 7 working days.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Up to 39 diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitation, organizational, behavioral problems have been and included in the diary and associated with one or more hypothesis considered to be a potential need/opportunity for observational and/or experimental research.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Psychiatry is very rarely among the priorities of nursing attention and research, thus exposing nursing care to a systematic risk of empirical-uncontrolled practices.
authors.affiliation: borca.alessandro@gmail.com
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Borca
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000628:therapy; D015399:Nursing Research; D019370:Observation