Writing a Study Protocol in Health: Nature and Necessity (a Commentary)

Writing a Study Protocol in Health: Nature and Necessity (a commentary)AbstractNowadays, health researchers are interested in publishing study protocol. The study protocol is the leaven of a research project that explains the necessity of the research and the process of conducting the research in detail for other researchers. Also, the study protocol lacks findings, discussion, and conclusion sections. But the main question is whether any type of research can be presented as a study protocol or not? The most important goals of writing a study protocol are protection of innovations and important achievements of researchers, informing others about long-term research projects with large data, capital return of providers of research funds and prevention of republication. In addition, new topics, fast needs of society and researches with multiple phases are the priority for the publication of study protocol. However, other researches also should be published on this type of article. Therefore, it is recommended that large research projects, especially dissertations, be published first in study protocol. Of course, knowing more about this issue requires more investigations and searches.