
Defining a practice-based question: SPICE
If you are studying the social sciences, a more appropriate system may be SPICE:
- SETTING (Where? in what context?)
- POPULATION or PERSPECTIVE (For whom?)
- INTERVENTION (What?)
- COMPARISON (What else?)
- EVALUATION (how well? What result?)
Here is an example of how it works:
Setting | Scotland |
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Population or Perspective | Teenagers |
Intervention | Provision of Quit Kits to support smoking cessation |
Comparison | No support or "cold turkey" |
Evaluation | Number of successful attempts to give up smoking with Quit Kits compared to number of successful attempts with no support. |
Pages developed with the help of Jamie Frankis, Lesley Price, Pauline Hamilton, and Ima Jackson of the School of Health and Life Sciences, GCU