Question:
Context:
This assessment is prescribed to advance literature searching, critical analysis, research question development, research planning skills, and reflexivity as a researcher.
This assessment involves developing a research question, preparing interview and probe questions, identifying four people that you can interview on this topic (for example, your family or friends, colleagues), and reflecting on your motivation and justification of your research proposal.
It assesses the key understanding necessary for conceptualising and developing a qualitative research proposal, which will prepare you for the use of qualitative methods in research and evaluation as a public health practitioner.
There are three steps to completing this assignment.
Research Question:
Qualitative study on staff perception towards the factors affecting the mental health of residents of an Adelaide Nursing Home? For this, I am going to interview four people at my workplace and the method is the purposive sampling method.
Instructions:
Step 1:
Develop a research question (similar to the ones you have explored throughout this subject) that supports qualitative exploration of a topic of your choice.
Warning: Topics must be low risk. This means that the topic should not be likely to cause distress or humiliation, and should not focus on vulnerable groups (such as children or people with a disability).
Step 2:
Write a interview questions that:
- Focus on obtaining information that will help you to answer your research question
- Are qualitative (focusing on experience, opinion, values, perceptions etc) in nature
- Comply with best practice principles for interview question design
Step 3:
Write a research proposal for your qualitative project. You must include:
- A brief literature reviewto summarise the existing knowledge in this space, and justify your proposed pr
- Your research question and the knowledge gapthat it will address.
- A summary of the key elements of the methodology that you think would be the most appropriate methodology to use to explore your research question (ie grounded theory, phenomenology etc), and why it is appropriate for exploring your research question.
- Your methods,including how you will select your participants (in this case, four people whom you already know) and your interview process.
- Your interview questions.
- A personal reflection on your motivationfor exploring this research question, any ethical or cultural considerations for your project, and anything that could create a risk of bias in your data (ie interviewing friends).
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