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Online Research methods Assessment

Table of Contents
SECTION ONE: RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN................................................2
Literature scoping........................................................................................................................2
Research question and hypothesis...............................................................................................2
Research Design..........................................................................................................................3
SECTION TWO: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS..............................................................................4
Statistical Decision making.........................................................................................................4
Data analysis and Write-up..........................................................................................................5
Linear Regression........................................................................................................................6
Paired Samples T-Test.................................................................................................................8
Assumption Checks.................................................................................................................8
Independent Samples T-Test.......................................................................................................9
Poster presentation.....................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

SECTION ONE: RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN
Literature scoping
Depression in youth is considered as a major issue for the young adults. Also, there were
many studies that has already conducted which entails that there is a negative impact identified
over the mental health of the people (Weersing and et.al., 2017). Further, it has been identified
that almost one in five adults were likely to be experiencing depression which will be increases
when the effective steps have not taken. Moreover, in the past decades, several different types of
psychotherapy for depression have been developed and as a result, the term defined as a the
informed and intentional application of clinical methods that is compiled of different principle
related to the same. Also, if such rate of mental illness increases from last many years then it
affects the overall mental health of people in negative manner (Cuijpers and et.al., 2019).
Majority of the depressed patients are mainly treated in primary care and for that small portion of
these are referred to mental health services. Instead of hundred trials on drugs and therapy, some
limited number of trials on drugs are mainly focused upon the primary care patients. Therefore,
the results are based upon the mental health care and this is not valid in depressed primary care
patients. So, the current study shed a light upon how the mental illness affected when the person
is depressed and for that primary research has to be conducted that provide a fair result.
The chosen topic for the present study is to determine the impact of depression upon the
mental wellbeing of the adults. Also, there are different treatment and treatment offered that
helps to let them know about how depression may cause negative impact over their health.
Therefore, the rationale for choosing this particular topic is to determine the views of people
towards the selected research questions.
Research question and hypothesis
The research question for the study is such that What is the impact of depression upon
adult’s mental well-being.
Hypothesis:
H0 (Null hypothesis): There is no relationship between the mean value of adult’s well-being.

H1 (Alternative hypothesis): There is a relationship between the mean value of adult’s well-
being.
The hypothesis are used in statistical testing in which null hypothesis is used to predict no
effects or no relationship between variable whereas alternative is related to determine the
prediction of an effect. Further, alternative hypothesis show some statistical difference between
and null hypothesis do not.
Research Design
This section determine how research methods actually assist the research to meet the
defined aim and for that below mention articles are used to prove the hypothesis.
Participants: In order to prove the hypothesis, the key participants for the present study
will be 50 adults from Wales from Cefn Coed Hospital in order to determine their views and
impact over the mental well-being. The selected participants are recruited randomly those
respondents are chosen who are highly depressive in nature. The inclusion criteria used for the
present study includes those articles which are published after 2018 and that contain the term
depression, mental health. However, the exclusion criteria for the present study are included
those which does not provide quantitative study so that they determine the accurate results
(White and et.al., 2018). The key demographic details used for the present study includes the
details of age where the adults range varies from 18 to 25, 25 to 30 and above 30. However,
some of them may be females and males so that they can determine the results in an effective
manner.
Design: In the present study and chosen research topic, depression is the independent
variable and mental well-being is dependent variable. In the present study, the condition for
describe through the hypothesis included that depression have a direct impact over the adult’s
mental well-being and this causes a direct impact over their performance as well. In this, within
group is used for the present study because regression analysis has used that determine the
relationship between the variable and this assist to prove the hypothesis as well.
Materials: For the present study, likert scale questionnaire has been designed which in
turn assist to accomplish the defined objectives and answer the research questions as well.