Follow these guidelines:
Address any ethical issues and how you will manage these. Consider what you will do if participants wish to withdraw. Provide details on any incentives you are including.
Describe how you will protect data, where it will be stored, and who would have access.
How will you manage data, including any transcription? Describe the tools you will use to manage your data (e.g., using Microsoft Excel to chunk qualitative data into units of analysis or SPSS to analyze quantitative numbers). Provide details on each step of the analysis process.
What statistical analyses do you plan to use and why?
How will you use the results? Consider dissemination to stakeholders, participants, and other interested individuals in the field. Explain any plans for presentation and publication of the material.
Address any assumptions that are being made. Identify the limitations of the study. Finally, indicate any delimiters used.
Address the expected cost for your study. As a part of your appendices, prepare a list of the costs for data-collection tools, incentives, data analysis tools, materials, and so on.
