Discuss Qualitative Research
You will select one research report with a qualitative design and one with quantitative
design and answer the following questions regarding the following categories:
1. Discuss what is meant by the term Qualitative Research
o Briefly, describe the characteristics of qualitative research and
identify nursing issues/phenomena that lend themselves to a
qualitative research approach.
o Compare and contrast three different qualitative research
methodologies.
o Briefly, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of qualitative research
evidence for informing nursing practice.
o Communicate how this research design used in research.
2. The study, sampling, data collection, analysis, rigor, findings and limitations
o Identify the purpose of the study.
o Briefly, describe the design of the study and explain why you think it
is either appropriate or inappropriate to meet the purpose.
o Identify ethical issues related to the study and how they were/were
not addressed.
o Identify the sampling method and recruitment strategy that was
used.
o Discuss whether sampling and recruitment were appropriate to the
aims of the research.
o Identify the data collection method(s) and discuss whether the
method(s) is/are appropriate to the aims of the study.
o Identify how the data was analyzed and discuss whether the
method(s) of analysis is/are appropriate to the aims of the study.
o Identify four (4) criteria by which the rigor of a qualitative project
can be judged.
o Discuss the rigor of this study using the four criteria.
o Briefly, describe the findings of the study and identify any
limitations.
o Use the information that you have gained from your critique of the
study to discuss the trustworthiness and applicability of the study.
Include in your discussion any implications for the discipline of
nursing.
3. Discuss what you understand by the term Quantitative Research – Use the
following dot points to guide your discussion (give reasons for your argument
and support with references):
o Describe the characteristics of quantitative research.
o Identify nursing issues/phenomena that lend themselves to a
quantitative research approach
o Differentiate between observational and interventional research
designs and also between experimental and quasi-experimental
designs.
o Briefly, outline the difference between inferential and descriptive
statistics and their relationship to levels of measurement.
o Communicate how this research design used in research.
4. Critique the Quantitative Research Report – Use the following headings to
guide your critique (in all discussions and explanations give reasons for your
argument and support with references):
o The study
Identify the purpose and design of the study.
Explain what is meant by ‘blinding’ and ‘randomization’
and discuss how these were addressed in the design of the
study.
Identify ethical issues related to the study and how they
were/were not addressed.
o Sampling
Explain the sampling method and recruitment strategy
that was used.
Discuss how the sample size was determined – include in
your discussion an explanation of terms used.
o Data collection
Briefly, outline how the data was collected and identify
any data collection instrument(s).
Define the terms validity and reliability and discuss how
the validity & reliability of the instruments were/were not
addressed in this study and why this is important.
o Data analysis
Outline how the data were analyzed.
Identify the statistics used and the level of measurement
of the data described by each statistical test – include in
your discussion an explanation of terms used.
o Findings and limitations
Briefly, outline the findings and identify any limitations of
the study
Use the information that you have gained from your
critique of the study to briefly discuss the trustworthiness
and applicability of the study. Include in your discussion an
explanation of the term statistical significance and name
the tests of statistical significance used in this study.
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