Refinement of a Nursing Concern into an EBP proposal using Research

Running head: REFINEMENT OF A NURSING CONCERN INTO AN EBP PROPOSAL
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Refinement of a Nursing Concern into an EBP proposal using the Research
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Refinement of a Nursing Concern into an EBP proposal using the Research
Data collection
The data collection for the proposed report on the use of the nursing concern into an EBP
will deploy the use both the quantitative and qualitative design methods of data collection. The
selected data collection methods are discussed in details below.
Quantitative data collection design
Quantitative design method is used to collect the numerical data that can be quantified
into the relevant units (Palinkas et al., 2015, pp.533-544). Furthermore, this design is used where
the statistical and mathematical analyses are required in the research project. For this reasons, the
method was suitable for collecting data that will enable the proposed research to answer the
PICO/PICo questions. The following is the PICOT research question established for the
proposed study.
P: School-aged children diagnosed with ADHD
I: Prescribe attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medication
C: Non-pharmacological therapies
O: Will decrease hyperactivity and increase attentiveness
T: The six-month period
The aims to focus on the young children who are characterized to have the attention
deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (Evans, Stephen, and Julie, 2014, pp.527-551). The
quantitative design will focus on the non-pharmacological therapies for increasing attentiveness
and decreasing hyperactivity within a six-month period. The quantitative data collection design

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is considered as credible and reliable for the proposed research due to the numerous statistical
analyses required from the collected data of the children.
Data collection processes
The proposed research will deploy the use of data collection techniques in the
quantitative design such as the questionnaires, biophysiologic, self-reports, and structured
observations. The questionnaires will enable the researchers to obtain information from the
parents or guardians to the victims or the respondents. Additionally, the medical personnel will
be very vital when collecting the data with the questionnaires. (Ingham-Broomfield and
Rebbecca, 2014, p.32) appreciates the importance of the questionnaires in collecting the
quantitative data as it provides the first hand data from the respondents. The open-ended
questionnaires would be essential as they lead to minimized biases and provide an opportunity
for the respondents to give their actual opinion about the subject matter in the research. On the
other hand, the closed ended questionnaires will enable the researchers to narrow in the results in
terms of accuracy as it is based on the factual contexts.
Concisely, the use of the structured observation in quantitative data collection ensures
that the data collected is relevant to the topic of study and the laid questions to the proposed
research. This is approved by (Bryman, 2017, pp.57-78) in his findings on the importance of the
structured observations. The author elaborates that since the research is conversant with the
research questions, it will provide a clear guideline in outlining the relevance of the quantitative
data to the research. On the other side, the biophysiologic and self-reports would enable the
researcher to get access to the data from the studies conducted earlier and from the medical
records at the medical facilities.

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Data collection points
The data will be collected in the medical facilities including the rehabilitation centres,
therapy centres, and the children hospitals. The respondents or the participants will be the
doctors, the psychiatrists, psychologists, children, and the guardians or the parents. However, the
data collection exercise will take place for a period of six months in order to provide enough
time for some sources of data collection such as questionnaires that require are time consuming
(Denscombe, 2014).
Methods of enhancing the data quality
The following are the proposed methods of improving the data quality in the proposed
research.
Data profiling
(Megahed, Fadel, and Jones, 2015, pp.29-47) acknowledges that the data profiling
involves analyzing the uniqueness and the correctness of the data. The technique will help in
checking whether the collected data can be reused by collecting the relevant statistics with the
help of the data mining tools
Data normalization technique
This is another technique that the prosed research will use in improving the quality of
data (Schwarzenbach et al., 2015, pp.10-15). After collection, the data will go through a through
standardization whereby a singular approach will be used to remove the redundancies.
Qualitative data collection design
The qualitative data collection methods utilize the non-numerical sets of data (Lewis,
2015, pp.473-475). This method is will be very vital for the research, as it will be used to collect