unit 7
Running head: THREE ABBREVIATED RESEARCH PLANS
Three Abbreviated Research Plans
Patricia Bolivar
Walden University
Research Theory, Design, and Methods
RSCH- 8100H-6
Dr. Rodney Bowden
November 18, 2012
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THREE ABBREVIATED RESEARCH PLANS
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Three Abbreviated Research Plans
Introduction
This paper illustrates how a public health practitioner when presented with a problem, issue, or situation in the community can use a quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods approach strategy of inquiry to investigate not only possible solutions, but to explore direction to determine a specific treatment or intervention and influence an outcome. Three abbreviated research plans are proposed in this paper as possible solutions to the growing concern in the U.S. on health disparities targeting a community with limited or no health insurance preventing them from receiving adequate health care, medication, and the use of preventive measures such as exercise and diet (Walden, 2012).
Comparison and Evaluation of Strengths and Limitations of Research Methods
Used in These Abbreviated Plans
Two major strengths I find of quantitative research are that using this strategy of inquiry the researcher has the opportunity to test and validate existing theories about how and why phenomena occur and test hypothesis constructed before data are obtained to study large number of people in a determined community or population (Creswell, 2009). Other strengths of quantitative research are that based on the findings the researcher can make generalizations when the collected data is based on random samples of significant size (Creswell, 2009). In quantitative research the data is precise and numerical and can be collected relatively quick, also analysis of the data can be performed using statistical software and programs. Weaknesses, on the other hand are directly associated in that the theory and categories used by the researcher may not reflect local
Three Abbreviated Research Plans
Patricia Bolivar
Walden University
Research Theory, Design, and Methods
RSCH- 8100H-6
Dr. Rodney Bowden
November 18, 2012
1
THREE ABBREVIATED RESEARCH PLANS
2
Three Abbreviated Research Plans
Introduction
This paper illustrates how a public health practitioner when presented with a problem, issue, or situation in the community can use a quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods approach strategy of inquiry to investigate not only possible solutions, but to explore direction to determine a specific treatment or intervention and influence an outcome. Three abbreviated research plans are proposed in this paper as possible solutions to the growing concern in the U.S. on health disparities targeting a community with limited or no health insurance preventing them from receiving adequate health care, medication, and the use of preventive measures such as exercise and diet (Walden, 2012).
Comparison and Evaluation of Strengths and Limitations of Research Methods
Used in These Abbreviated Plans
Two major strengths I find of quantitative research are that using this strategy of inquiry the researcher has the opportunity to test and validate existing theories about how and why phenomena occur and test hypothesis constructed before data are obtained to study large number of people in a determined community or population (Creswell, 2009). Other strengths of quantitative research are that based on the findings the researcher can make generalizations when the collected data is based on random samples of significant size (Creswell, 2009). In quantitative research the data is precise and numerical and can be collected relatively quick, also analysis of the data can be performed using statistical software and programs. Weaknesses, on the other hand are directly associated in that the theory and categories used by the researcher may not reflect local
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