"background to the study" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You would typically use this phrase to provide an introduction to a topic or to explain what research was conducted prior to the current study. For example: "In order to better understand the findings of this study, it is important to understand the background to the study. Previous research suggests that..."
The background to the study is the striking fact that even as traditional marriage has declined in the United States – marriage rates tumbling, out-of-wedlock childbirth climbing, and cohabitation becoming as respectable as wedlock – the evidence has mounted for the institution's importance to the well-being of children.
Gil--the postdoc--brings a broad background to the study of evolutionary genetics.
A background to the study expands on the reasons that led to the need for the project.
Nevertheless, insofar issues relating to this concept of reliability are relevant, they are reviewed in the discussion on the theoretical background to the study.
This paper also provides a background to the study of the vast existing faunal collections and a guide to undiscovered fossil deposits.
Having described the background to the study, we explain and examine the development of our classroom language benchmark assessment, which is followed by a discussion of potential implications for future research.
The purposes of this paper are to give a background to the studies presented in this special issue, and to encourage more social scientist to contribute to this important and rapidly growing field.
The questionnaire started with a short introduction on the background to the research study and an explanation of what the questionnaire would involve (including a practice example).
Although numbers were low, we aimed to include males and females who had a similar background to the proposed study sample and who had a range of educational/literacy backgrounds.
34 Part of the background to this study is the continuing community concern about incinerators, a concern which does not discriminate incinerators by emissions.
In order to provide some background to the clinical studies, the effect of IFO and its active metabolites on the formation of COMET-detectable DNA damage in vitro was investigated.
