Companion Encyclopedia of Psychology

NURSING RESEARCH
NURSING RESEARCH
Jessy Nwuba
South College

NURSING RESEARCH
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7. Briefly describe the purpose of your study and study design.
The main purpose of the study is to develop an understanding of the perceptions of health care
professionals. This is a key aspect that in one way or the other affects the quality of the services
being offered by the practitioners. Furthermore, studies have shown that healthcare workers with
negative attitudes in one way tend to make the patients remain away from accessing these
hospitals. Hence, by studying the perceptions of health care professionals, at least the quality of
healthcare can be accessed so that recommendations can be adopted to improve the services in
general.
On the study design, the use of mixed-method study design including focus group discussions
and semi-structured questionnaires are relevant because it helps in eliciting key information as
far as the perceptions of the healthcare providers are concerned, (Morse, 2016). For example,
semi-structured questionnaires are used to get knowledge of the healthcare workers on the
quality of services offered. In addition, the questionnaires in one way or the other are closed-
ended to specifically identify issues of perceptions of the healthcare workers. It is easy to analyze
the closed-ended questionnaires by using statistical software like SPSS. On the other and,
qualitative approaches such as the use of focus group discussion play an important role by only
interviewing key healthcare providers with an in-depth understanding of the issues of healthcare
services. By use of focus group discussion, data triangulation will be enhanced, and this
increases the validity of the findings.
8. For each research question, describe the statistical methods you would use in the
analysis, including the level of significance for each test.
Given the nature of the study, both descriptive and inferential statistics will be used to interpret
the findings, (MacRae, 2019). For example, summary measures like means, median, range are