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Table 2 Concept of research.

From: Understanding of research: a Sri Lankan perspective

Research

Searching/look for/inquiries (48.5%) discovery and finding (33.3%)

Obtaining data/gathering information/getting to know/gaining knowledge and learning (22.7%)

Searching about problems/looking in to problems (13.6%)

Testing of blood, urine, stools and other types of laboratory tests ordered by doctors(4.5%)

'Making a judgment about something'

'Experimenting'

'A process that looks in to see if something is correct or not, in a way that is encouraging to the public'

'Coming to a decision by obtaining data using a certain methodology to make something clear'

'An in-depth search'

'Obtaining a description'

'A study to identify a disease'

'Looking in to something to see if it is good or bad'

'Looking in to something, to comprehend something that is not understood, to improve an existing thing'

'Further exploration of something unknown'

'Using statistical knowledge to collect observations, to summarise, to analyse, to present, to come to conclusions in a scientific background and to forward them to those who require them for future progress'

'Developing a hypothesis and searching if it is correct or not'

  1. Total number of participants -- 66
  2. Number of participants responded for this question -- 45