Essays on Thematic Analysis

Childhood Obesity

The study by Datar, and Nancy Nicosia (2012) has Level VI (level of evidence), and is of sufficiently good quality as the research is empirical in nature and has minimal level of bias due to the appropriate data collection procedure and instrument validity. The study is significant as it is working on one of the most important healthcare problems in the world, i.e. childhood obesity. It is also important as the study deals with Early Childhood Longitudinal Study—Kindergarten Class (ECLS-K) along with instrumental variables, so that the outcomes would come on the basis of well-documented facts. With the ...

Methodology and Research Design

The choice of a methodology in a research is based on the properties of the methodology and their ability to meet the purpose of the study in a qualitative research or to answer the research questions in a quantitative research. The analysis of the methodology chosen by the researchers can shed light on the appropriateness of the choices with respect to their ability to meet the purpose of the study. This paper explores the methodology and research design chosen by Humphrey & Symes (2010) in their article on Responses to bullying and use of social support among pupils with autism ...

Difference between Positivism and Interpretivism

Positivisms refers to the philosophical means of gauging the validity of information right from its observed evidence. Under this system, the aspects of knowledge got from non-scientific means, for instance the metaphysic evidence would be regarded as invalid. Thus, positivism aims at understanding a social establishment through observing known facts. On the other hand, interpretivism focuses on understanding through experience. Thus, this includes understanding the meaning of an action or actions in a social context through things like paying attention on a unique point of view. In this respect, interpretivists disagree with positivists that human behaviors can be explained ...

Difference between Positivism and Interpretivism

Positivism Positivism is recognized as philosophical theory that explains the association of knowledge with natural phenomenon and their characteristics. The term positivism is also termed as “scientific” approach that includes highly systemized and measureable methods that are dependent on the approaches used by the scientists in their research works .

Interpretivism

In contrast, interpretive is a method used in social science that is completely based on the assembling of qualitative data in which various techniques including observation of participants and interviews are utilized to gather the useful data and information. It is believed by the interpritivist that effective research is the ...

Thematic analysis is one of the most commonly used methods in analyzing qualitative data. It is an approach that has been tried and tested as a rigorous means of analyzing qualitative data in disciplines such as psychology, management and media studies. Boyatzis describes it as a method that “allows for the translation of qualitative information into quantitative data” (4). In this assignment, the first section is the diagrammatic representation of the hierarchical model of the themes developed from the survey responses. The second section describes these themes in detail with quotes to support them.

Hierarchical model

Themes The hierarchical model depicts ...

Introduction

The current paper critically evaluates the research study conducted by Zenobia Chan and Joyce Ma (2003). The purpose of the paper is to attempt to develop an understanding of qualitative assessment provided in the selected journal article by critiquing and appraising the research. Chan and Ma (2003) explored the patient’s subjective experience of anorexia nervosa and assessed that how people with anorexia nervosa exhibit certain expressions of annoyance, apprehension, and nervousness. The study of Chen and Ma proves that anorexia nervosa is an affecting disorder in a human being that is characterized by an obsessive desire to lose ...

Quantitative study

Campbell, D. A., Lake, M. F., Falk, M., & Backstrand, J. R. (2006). A randomized control trial of continuous support in labor by a lay doula. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 35(4), 456-464.

Database from which the article was retrieved

Wiley Online Library Study Design The study utilized a randomized controlled design whereby the participants were randomized into either the control (no intervention) group or the experimental (doula group). As such, the design utilized was suitable and consistent with the study since it enabled the investigator to effectively compare the outcome measures of the two group and come up with significant inferences (Polit & Beck, 2013). ...

Abstract

The current government has consistently been trying to reduce the costs of healthcare and at the same time improve its quality. This paper focuses on the current state of healthcare through an extensive research on the population. The research uses a cross sectional design to collect data and come up with relevant conclusions. The research project aimed at using a homogenous population to come up with accurate results. Such a population involves participants who have the same knowledge about the subject. Such participants are easily obtained through a referral process where one participant refers another. A total of 50 ...

HPV vaccination among adolescent girls in the UK

Marlow, L., 2011. HPV vaccination among ethnic minorities in the UK: knowledge, acceptability and attitudes. British Journal of Cancer, 105:486-492. The research involves the study on the uptake of childhood vaccination from various ethnical minorities in the UK. The research method includes qualitative and quantitative peer-reviewed journals and articles published between January 2000 to March 2010 from scholarly resources. Purposive sampling was used in order to determine the ideal proportion of the ethnic participants in the study. Ethnicity related variables were included in the study with consideration of the geographical location, country of birth, language spoken and the years ...

Inductive Thematic Analysis

Introduction Drug crimes are increasingly becoming a major concern on both local and global fronts. Current research (Braun and Clarke, 2012) suggests that the thematic analysis of important data sources such as sentencing remarks would facilitate the efficacy of available strategies in these crimes. The purpose of this assignment is to analyse the themes that comprise the societal understanding of the occurrence and penalties of drug-related crime. The researcher uses information from seven courtroom sentencing remarks from Adelaide, Southern Australia. This inductive thematic analysis identifies overarching themes that are evident across all seven documents. The themes include “gender and ...

[Data]

Step 1

An interview of five students was conducted for qualitative data. A set of structured interview question was used to gather information for the qualitative data. For quantitative data, a news article named “Sydney Swans' Adam Goodes celebrates goal with Indigenous war dance, ruffles feathers” was selected.Step 2

For Qualitative Data

The data for the qualitative research was gathered through a semi- structured interview. The interview of four students was conducted. A group of four students was a part of this study, and each student was asked some questions that were same because of their importance towards the study while other questions ...

Industry Case Study Report

Industry Case Study Report

Abstract

The world has become increasingly mobile or that is what the statistics shows us. The number of tourists across the world has been rising all through the years barring a few occasions like post 9/11 in 2001 and during the global recession period of 2008-2010. The latest data shows that the international tourist arrivals have increased by 4 % to reach a record 1.2 billion tourist arrivals in 2015 . Almost all the major markets exhibited positive results and is it is expected to upkeep the momentum in 2016 as well. New Zealand also continued to show ...

Human beings are always in search of finding new ways to know the world and of learning new things. When it comes to learning a new language, people show more curiosity to learn, speak and to write. People feel happiness or enjoy interacting with others, rejoice in knowing about others. The best way to interact with a person of other custom, culture or nation or to know about the culture of others, their thoughts, and ways of living is to learn their language. Learning a new language provides an opportunity to the learners not only to know about others but it becomes a ...

Identification of use issues and effectivity of the CVR cost-control method in the UAE construction industry

M.Sc. in Quantity Surveying

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Rationale for the Study 3 Aim of the Dissertation 5 Objectives . 5 Hypothesis 5 Research Methodology . 5 Dissertation Structure .. 7

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1. Working Title Identification of use issues and effectivity of the CVR cost-control method in the UAE construction industry 2. Rationale for the Study The construction industry is not only a key player in the national economic growth; but also a crucial sector affecting the economic and social welfare of citizenry, particularly in its primary function in providing reliable and decent shelter. Although potentially profitable, it is also ...

Psycho Movie Analysis

Psycho is a great and complex psychological thriller film from the 1960 by Alfred Hitchcock. It is known as the supreme of all modern horror suspense films, and ushered in a new kind of horror that the audiences had never seen or experienced before. It is not very well known, but this was Hitchcock's first real horror film, and he got labeled as a horror film director ever since. The film is centered on the encounter between a secretary who embezzles money from her employer and ends up at a secluded motel. She becomes the victim of Norman Bates, the motel's disturbed owner-manager, and ...

Evidence-based Practice

Evidence-Based practice (EBP) is a problem solving approach to the provision of healthcare to patients and families (Bennett, 2009). The history of EBP as a concept can be traced back to the 1970s and 1980s to the works of epidemiologists at McMaster University, Canada. EBP developed partially as a response to the scathing critic of the practice of medicine by Archibald Cochrane (Cohen, Stavri, and Hersch, 2003). Cochrane accused medical practice at the time of not being evidence-based. He argued that the treatments, tests, procedures, and interventions used at the time had no evidence on their effectiveness (Cohen, Stavri, and Hersch, 2003). ...

Introduction

The current essay involves a critical review of the research process and development of two research reports on nursing care and shared care services and evidence based practice in the nursing profession. Understanding the research process and development may furnish important insights on how evidence based practice be implemented effectively in aid of better patient care in both traditional hospital nursing care and shared care services involving nurses as useful members in the healthcare staff. Parameters for the research process critique involve important aspects in a research report: research approach or design, sampling method, methods of data collection, validity and ...

AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER WOMEN

Question 1: Parameters of the Research The topic selected for this research is “The rates of incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.” The researcher’s interest in this topic stems from the fact that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are over-represented in the Australian Criminal Justice system (NATSILS 2013). In particular, they are incarcerated at a rate fourteen times higher than non-Aboriginal and Torres Islander peoples (NATSILS 2013). According to statistics (NATSILS 2013), the incarceration rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men increased by 35% in 2010 while the incarceration rate for Aboriginal and Torres ...

Weber's Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism book traces its authorship from a German sociologist known as Max Weber. A part from being a professional sociologist, Max also qualifies based on professionalism to be a politician and economist in vast scopes of involvement. The book begins as a series of defined essays originally composed in German between the years 1904 and 1905. The first translation of the text to English was carried out in 1930 by Talcott Parsons. The book is thus considered as the founding text of general and economic sociology. The protestant Ethic discussion by Weber captures on the basic ...

Display of data

Expected Outcomes of the Study Implementation of Change Evaluation of Change

In the following discussion this researcher will outline the data collection and measurement techniques, expected outcomes of the Study; implementation of change and evaluation procedures to be employed in the research project patient in in patent settings.

Introduction

Patient falls in inpatient settings is common in hospitals, nursing homes; assisted living facilities and independent living. There is immense research data on this subject. As such, this research expects to build on previous findings in answering questions proposed in this particular investigation.

Data Collection and Measurement

Method The data collection ...

Patient falls in inpatient settings

This paper will focus on the following components of the study, data collection and measurement, expected outcomes of the study, implementation of change, and evaluation of the impact of the change.

Data collection and measurement

Data will be collected via a semi structured interview. The study participants will be asked to provide demographic data such as gender, age, working experience, and level of education. The questions contained in the interview guide will be designed to acquire information related to the organizational system, attitudinal and other factors that prevent the successful adoption of evidence-based fall prevention practices by nurses. The interview questions will be framed ...

Thematic analysis refers to the process of identifying data, analyzing it and at the same time reporting the patterns that are found within it. It looks into detail several research aspects in a topic. Thematic analysis is a useful and a flexible research tool that is potentially used to get a detailed and rich but a very complex data. This method is very explicit and is majorly used in analyzing data because of its flexibility. Thematic analysis generally is carried out after some research has been conducted in form of interviews and the data recorded to allow for the analysis to take ...