The Qualitative Report for Research Process
The study of Peters, Ryan, Haslam and Fernandes (2012) explains why women take fewer jobs in male dominated fields owing to the extent of their occupational prototype fit. They use two different studies: the first one was done with a female sample and shows that women who did not see themselves as fitting in that “occupational prototype” tended to leave that profession because they did not identify themselves with it. However, as this was a sample of only women, they did the second study on a sample of both genders. The second study shows that women are more likely to perceive the differences between themselves and the “occupational prototype”. In this study, they found that women’s perception of
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It is explained in a separate section because it includes the sample choice, through which methods the data will be collected and analysed (Partington, 2002). Firstly there are different types of research methods: in this design a descriptive design will be used and as a method interview will be applied to gather the data. Descriptive designs are for “observing, describing and measuring behaviour of a participant without actually affecting or influencing that behaviour”(Lewis & Zibarras, 2013, p. 64). The interviews as methods are connected to descriptive designs, because in interviews the participant is asked about their feelings, understanding or thinking on the research topic (Lewis & Zibarras, …show more content…
Robson (2002) says that in the template analysis either some codes are determined according to the research questions beforehand or they can be found by looking at the interview texts. Firstly the codes should be listed, which are “representing themes identified in their textual data” (Cassell & Symon, 2004, p. 256). One of the reasons to use this method here is that it is “flexible” so researchers can modify it depending on their needs (Cassell & Symon, 2004). It is particularly important to analyse the data through template analysis here because template analysis’s goal is to contrast different groups’, here male and female, point of view on the same topic (Cassell & Symon, 2004). On the other hand IPA is used as a common method as well but IPA can have smaller samples and because the purpose of this research is to find the reasons for differences between two groups, it is beneficial to be able to use a bigger sample, which is enabled by template analysis. When using this method there are some disadvantages like having a huge or complex data set that cannot be analysed in a short time. Robson (2002) gives some tactics to avoid this situation, for example after collecting the data in the interview, a “summary sheet” of the interview can be made, which will solve the complexity or the size issue of the
Paper (i) is a syntheses. A syntheses is a summary based on rigorous searches for evidence, explicit scientific reviews of the studies uncovered in the search, and systematic assembly of the evidence to provide a clear signal about the effects of the specific healthcare intervention. (Haynes, B., 2001).
Qualitative research seeks to answer the “why” and not the “how” of the research project that is being conducted, this is done through a complex system of analyzing unstructured information such as survey’s , questionnaires, interviews, interview transcripts, open end survey’s, focus groups, observations, emails, notes, video’s, feed back forms and photo’s; most of the time a qualitative report won’t depend on statistical evidence alone it must be accompanied by detailed facts and proven facts and not hypotheses or in accurate data, this can lead to misunderstanding of data findings and can through the whole aim of the research project off and waste valuable time.
Gender stereotypes are one of the most common encountered on a daily basis. The infamous ‘Glass Ceiling’ still exists in many areas of the professional world, restricting valid promotions simply based on gender. This type of concept can be verified by looking at comparative weekly wages of other professionals in a variety of industries. Most people will generally see female dominated occupations, such as nurse, teacher and secretary as requiring feminine personality traits and physical attributes for success; whereas male dominated occupations such as doctor, lawyer, and business executive are seen to require male personality traits for success (Sanderson, 2010, p. 344).
Nurses are responsible in providing holistic, quality care to their clients. In order to effectively provide such care Boswell and Cannon (2009, p. 2 & 7) states that nurses must base their provision of care on the most current, up-to-date health information available and sound nursing knowledge. This is where evidence-based practice (EBP) comes in. Polit and Beck (2010, p. 4) defined EBP as "the use of the best clinical evidence in making patient care desicions". This usually comes from research conducted by nurses and other healthcare professionals. Thus it is pertinent that research reports are critically analyzed.
When you hear the word “process,” what comes to mind? I immediately envision an assembly line. On the assembly line are people following the same steps over and over again to produce a final product. When writing, we do the same thing; however, we do it in a less stringent manner. We start with research and then follow the steps of the assembly line until we produce a final product, a written paper. Throughout this examination, I will discuss three of many steps in my research process for last weeks written assignment.
The search terms I used to locate this study were “academic performance” and “high school athletes.” I found the study in the SPORTDiscus with Full Text database. There were several reasons why I chose this study to analyze over other studies identified in the search results. The main reason I chose this study was because its research question most directly addressed my research topic. The other aspects of the study that made it seem worth investigating were that it was peer reviewed, it was published within the last year, and it examined students within the United States. Many of the other studies in the search results analyzed student samples from other countries; but in order to maintain consistency and keep my research topic somewhat narrow, I want to only look at studies that investigate athletics in secondary education in the United States.
In this assignment, various research with regards to different agendas will be discussed and broken down into the approaches that were conducted and the results of these researches. The first study that will be analyzed will be; Factors Involved in Recovery from Schizophrenia: A Qualitative study of Thai Mental Health Nurses. The authors for this research study were; Kaewprom, Chettha; Curtis, Janette; Deane, Frank P. The main point of this study was to investigate international methods, such as those conducted in Thailand and compare and contrast them with American psychiatric approaches in order to improve the
This is a quantitative critique of “Do Higher Dispositions for Empathy Predispose Males Toward Careers in Nursing? A Descriptive Correlation Design (Penprase, Oakley, Ternes, Driscoll).
His mother didn’t receive education since she withdrew from school by his father’s command that “a girl did not need education”. As a result, a housewife implied that you had “no job, no status, low self-esteem”. Even though there were no direct evidence showed that women had less sense of identity from their jobs in Tom Fryers’s article, his illustration had strongly reflected that women’s identity was disregarded. Women did not get the job opportunities they deserved to have. According to their content, two articles all mentioned women’s job identity, they had quite opposite point of views. Rebecca Riffkin used the real data to tell the truth that women are slightly more likely to get a sense of identity from their job than men. However, Tom Fryers stated that worker-identity still remained problematic for many woman.
1) If you answer yes to the above question regarding health insurance, can you tell me if using health insurance removes communication barriers when visiting a doctor?
A qualitative study delves into a social or human problem in hopes to formulate a theory about that phenomenon. Paterson et al. (2005) performed a qualitative study that formulated a theory on how male nursing students learn to care. The researchers discovered how and what aspects perpetuated males to learn to care for patients empathetically while in nursing school. This paper will critique the above study noted and provide rationales.
Within a quantitative study, the research is completed to seek some type of verification, but within a qualitative study the research is completed to seek a deeper understanding (Capella University, 2017c). For instance, Hoelscher et al. (2016) used a survey method to verify how the students commuted to school, and they received weather reports for specific dates and locations for data collection. In contrast, if Hoelscher et al. (2016) study was conducted using qualitative methodology, it would be designed as a multiple-case study design. A multiple case study design is an evaluation of multiple systems that are studied and compared to one another over time (Capella University, 2017b). The multiple cases being
Locate a current peer-reviewed qualitative research study. Discuss what makes the article a qualitative study.
The graduate students at Stephen F. Austin University used a qualitative method to conduct a survey on the assessment of the needs of Dialysis Patients: Perceptions of Individuals, Clients, families and Healthcare providers. During this research study, three graduate students surveyed at total of 14 participants divided amongst clients, families and healthcare providers. Results were conducted to access the perception of the individual’s outlook on Dialysis patients and treatment. The results were formalized based on the individual ethnicity group, age and gender followed by a list of formalized questions targeted to either client, family member and healthcare providers. After results were collected the graduate students could take the final
A study on the implicit and explicit occupational gender types, Sex Roles, “Occupational gender stereotypes are activated when men and women are considered to be more suited for certain occupations based on stereotyped characteristics and temperaments” (White and White 2006). Matheus represented the following examples, “a stereotypically feminine job would be associated with attributes such as nurturing, caring, and being sensitive to the needs of others and a stereotypically masculine job would be associated with attributes such as decisiveness, coldness and toughness” (Matheus 2010). Nowadays, women are usually seen in the workforce as secretaries and nurses. Meanwhile, most doctors and construction laborers are men. In addition, Anker points out that “Occupational segregation by gender is prevalent in most if not all countries” (Anker 1998). “Women and men work in different fields and within fields at different levels” (Anker 1998). Diekman and Wilde explained that “men’s concentration in leadership and other high power roles led to the assumption that men have “agentic characteristics” such self-assertion and dominance and women’s concentration in subordinate and caretaking roles lead to the assumption that they have “communal characteristics” such as being kind and supportive (Diekman and Wilde 2005).