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Report on Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches

   

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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Comparison of Qualitative and Quantitative Research Approaches ..........................................1Use of this approaches on the vaccination..................................................................................2Reflection of participation in the debate.....................................................................................3REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTIONParents who choose vaccination for their children wants to protect them from any serioushealth problem. In order to make sure that their children are healthy and secured from diseasessuch as measles, brain damage, mumps etc, vaccination need to be given by parents to thechildren (Whitney and Schuchat, 2014). The children will be protected from the infectiousdiseases if vaccination is being given to them by parents This report will represent the criticalanalysis of application of quantitative and qualitative approaches on the chosen subject.Comparison of Qualitative and Quantitative Research approaches Qualitative research can be used to gain insight into the problems or assists in thedevelopment of plans and ideas. In order to uncover hidden trends in thoughts, opinions,motivation, attitude and drive deeper into the issue, qualitative research can be used. Theunstructured or semi-structured techniques can be used for quantitative data collection (Creswelland Poth, 2017). The common methods that can be used to conduct qualitative research includesobservations, individual interviews, and focus groups. In contrast, to this Quantitative research isused to specify the issue by producing data into numbers or by converting data into usablestatistics. From a large sample of population, it produces results by using quantify attitudes,opinions, behaviours and other defined variables. The facts and uncovered patterns in researchcan be formed with quantitative research which make use of measurable data (Horne, Powelland Holyoak, 2015). In comparison with qualitative data collection methods, quantitative collection methodsare much more structured. Various forms of surveys are included in the quantitative datacollection such as online surveys, mobile surveys, face to face interview, online polls andsystematic observation. For analysis the elements that is used by qualitative approach are words,pictures and objects, in contrast to this the data that is used by quantitative research to analysedata is numerical data (Ichinose and Kurisaku, 2017). The results that are obtained from the analysis of data helps to develop an initialunderstanding in terms of qualitative approach whereas in quantitative approach a final course ofaction is recommended. 1

Qualitative methods of research are complex analysis that are characterized by processesthat cannot be practically evaluated or measured in terms of arithmetic measurements. However,Quantitative research is dependent on various procedures and methods of mathematics such asamount, frequency and statistical tools. The techniques that can be used for analysing qualitativedataset can be Thematic perception test. In comparison to this, technique that can be used forquantitative data set can be SPSS. The main objective of qualitative approach is to gainunderstanding of phenomena by making use of data. In contrast to this quantitative approachpurpose is to make a prediction and control phenomena through a collection of numeric data(Katherine and et.al., 2014).When large amount of numerical data needs to be analysed then quantitative research canbe used as it converts the data into statistics, in comparison to this qualitative research can beutilized when the data cannot be transformed into numbers and instead it need to be categorised. Use of this approaches on the vaccinationQualitative approachesBy making use of routine vaccination programs in high income countries like Australiavaccine-preventable diseases have been greatly reduced (Rosen, Ashwood and Richardson,2016). But despite its success, there are still many parents who deny providing vaccination fortheir children (Department of health Australia, 2017). So, a study was conducted by making useof online focus group in AustraliaMethods In total, nine online focus groups (n=60) in which the Australian parents were includedwith at most one child, aged from 0-5 years for whom vaccination was denied or part of it underimmunization program. An analysis was conducted to address the cause that influencedjudgment of parents to refuse vaccination (Luyten and Beutels, 2016).ResultsMultiple components that include lifestyle of family was found as one of the reason forrefusal of vaccination. Various perceptions related to the body of child and immune system,efficiency of vaccine and its sides effects and social environment are the factors leading torefusal of vaccination by the families. In order to provide a meaningful data, the use of onlinefocus groups proved to be effective in qualitative research.Conclusion2

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