How To Write A Qualitative Research Essay

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……….RESEARCH DESIGN
As it has been already indicated, this study has examined each of our six research questions via the interviews of colleagues in the health field and through my experiences with my clients.

The Research Method
Our research method is concerned with inferential procedures. That is to say, information that we obtained can be used to make inference about a much larger set of measurements called population (OTT 1988). Three health practitioners with a minimum of ten years of experience formed our sample. Relevant to our research method, this sample is also valid and reliable. By relevance, we mean that our sample is representative of the entire population where that particular health practitioner is operating. The rationale …show more content…

Thus, we have incorporated other independent variables, such as heredity, the hepatic system, the glandular system, mineral and vitamin deficiency, and the previous mentioned contingent factors. This has determined the type of questions generated in our grid interview and our multi-dimensional analysis of the interview results. A Comparative Research
This study compares knowledge and experiences we have had with my diabetic clients to our colleagues’ past and actual experiences with diabetics within the New York area. For the purpose of this study, the New York area comprises four of the five boroughs: Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn.

As a means of preliminary work on this dissertation, I have used my previously conducted research on diabetes for my weekly radio broadcast on health. We have accumulated practical knowledge about diabetes primarily through the use of kinesiology. Our research results will confirm or reject the knowledge and experiences I have built up so far on diabetes, compared to the experiences of colleagues in the field of natural health. This research is therefore a comparative …show more content…

Hypothesis 7: A level of glucose beyond the optimal can result from the concomitant action of ingested foods, dehydration, and the inability of the individual to manage stressful and emotional situations.

Responses to open-ended questions asked during the interviews constitute the corpus on which we are going to work. We will test our hypotheses and conclude to their confirmation or their reversal based on a detailed analysis. A hypothesis is a tentative explanation of reality which highlights a cause and effect relationship between two variables. We expect to achieve a double conclusion: it will be partly experimental, statistical and partly clinical.

We have not used multiple regression analysis to test how two or more variables are related or correlated to just one variable. We have used, on the contrary, single-variable correlation to test how one variable is related or correlated to another variable. The rationale is to look for the significance of each correlation, and hence perform a statistical analysis for each correlation based on collected information and our search of the

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