The research problem addresses what researchers perceive is wrong, missing, or puzzling, or what requires changing, in the world. Presentations of the research problem typically set the stage for the study that will be, or that was, conducted by offering evidence that the problem exists and for whom and by establishing the significance of the problem and why it requires formal inquiry. The research problem may be a clinical/practice, theoretical/disciplinary, or methodological problem.
Because of the fluid and emergent nature of qualitative research design, the research problem that set the stage ...