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To what extent does a competency-based behavioral intervention offered to adult patients with advanced cancer, improve _pain_ at a healthcare care center in  West Montgomery  over a period of 4 weeks?

My project will be conducted utilizing quantitative methods with a quasi-experimental design.  

The selected research design applicable to my direct practice improvement project is quantitative, quasi-experimental. The target group is adults with advanced cancer in a health care facility in West Montgomery. This design was chosen, because both pre- and post-intervention pain scores will be measured. The independent variable for this project is a competency-based behavioral intervention and the dependent variable is pain score.

The intervention group will receive the competency-based behavioral intervention and the control group will not receive the competency-based behavioral intervention. This helps make inferences about the possible existence of a cause and effect relationship of the intervention. A quasi-experimental research design is used to evaluate the benefits of specific interventions, which is what the direct practice improvement (DPI) project entails.

Pain scores will be rated on a scale of 1-10 before and after the competency based behavior intervention.