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Unit III Scholarly Activity

Using the CSU Online Library and other disciplinary resources, research how qualitative research is used in your field. Using this information, write an essay that describes how qualitative research tools can be used to aid in decision making within your field. Be sure your essay addresses the following questions/topics:

1. Describe specific qualitative methods and tools that could be used within your discipline to gather data. Include your rationale.

2. Evaluate their effectiveness with respect to certain areas within your discipline.

3. Include company or organizational examples within your essay, as relevant.

4. In your opinion, what is the future of qualitative research both within your discipline and in general?

Your APA-formatted response must be a minimum of three pages (not including the title page and the reference page) and must include an introduction, a thesis statement (concise summary of the main point of the paper), and a clear discussion of the questions/topics above. Your response must include a minimum of two credible references. All sources used must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

For step-by-step instructions for formatting a paper in APA style, please refer to the CSU Citation Guide at http://www.columbiasouthern.edu/downloads/pdf/success/citation-guide. Instructions for formatting formal documents can be found on page 17.

Information about accessing the Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.

Unit IV Scholarly Activity

Using the CSU Online Library and other disciplinary resources, research how quantitative research is used in your discipline. Using this information, write an essay that describes how quantitative research tools can be used to aid in decision making within your field. Be sure your essay addresses the following questions/topics:

1. Describe specific quantitative methods and tools that could be used within your discipline to gather data. Include your rationale.

2. Evaluate their effectiveness with respect to certain areas within your discipline.

3. Include company or organizational examples within your essay, as relevant.

4. In your opinion, what is the future of quantitative research both within your discipline and in general?

Your APA-formatted response must be a minimum of three pages (not including the title page and the reference page) and must include an introduction, a thesis statement (concise summary of the main point of the paper), and a clear discussion of the questions/topics above. Your response must include a minimum of two credible references. All sources used must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.

For step-by-step instructions for formatting a paper in APA style, please refer to the CSU Citation Guide at http://www.columbiasouthern.edu/downloads/pdf/success/citation-guide. Instructions for formatting formal documents can be found on page 17.

Information about accessing the Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.


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Running Head: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH TOOLS

How qualitative research tools can be used to aid in decision-making within the field of
Medicine
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Introduction
The qualitative research in the field of medicine and healthcare scrutinizes the lived
familiarities and interpersonal processes as the foundation of different social phenomena. The main
aim of the qualitative research is to help comprehend why or how some occurrences happen, it is
done through interviews as well as observation to gain insight of different situations. The
phenomena are examined in its ordinary scenery and include all the things that may influence the
scenery by ascertaining the variables and how they influence the result of the issue. Qualitative
research methods include narrative research, ethnography, phenomenology, action research and
hermeneutics (Silverman, 2016).
Theses statement.
The use of qualitative research methods can be of great help in the process of decision
making in the field of healthcare and medicine.
Methods and tools used to gather data.
There are different methods which are used in the collection of data in qualitative research
in the field of medicine, they include written narratives, single or group interviews, written
narratives to open-ended questionnaires, focus groups and observation of different aspects of the
phenomenon of the people, situations, and events. The written narrative methodology will aim in
stories about the individuals as told in their own words, the story gives a firsthand information
which can be used to derive different aspects of the phenomena (Holloway & Galvin, 2016). The
story can be used in different analysis purposes including structural analysis as well as thematic
analysis.

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH TOOLS

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Single and group interviews will be used to gain a perspective on the phenomena as the
interviewer asks some controlled questions. The questions are based on the research which they
are doing and the responded has to answer specifically as asked. This will give the medical
researchers a good perspective in the areas of the phenomena which they had not understood earlier
(Taylor et al., 2015). In single interviews, each individual answers in their own perspective the
questions asked about how the phenomena have affected them but in group interviews, several
individuals are asked the same questions to answer.
The use of focus groups has gained popularity in the medical qualitative research field, the
researchers use this to gain the respondents’ beliefs, attitudes, feelings, reactions and experiences
with the phe...


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