Importance of Physical Exercise and Epistemology in Qualitative Research on People Keep Moving Exercise Program for Older People

LC571 Qualitative Research
Methods for Social Scientists
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TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Epistemology and ethics..............................................................................................................3
FINDINGS.......................................................................................................................................4
Ways to know about people keep moving group exercise programme or epistemology of this
study.............................................................................................................................................4
Importance of physical exercise..................................................................................................5
Importance of motivation and other advantages of joining this exercise program......................6
DISCUSSION..................................................................................................................................7
Results from findings on research study......................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
Qualitative research involves collecting as well as analysing non-numerical data or that
information that are being collected in the form of theory and feelings (Roulston and Choi,
2018). The purpose of conducting this study is knowing better ways of engaging older people in
developed exercise program by researcher. This study is going to discuss importance of engaging
older people in exercise program called: People keep moving. It will further discuss
epistemology in research study and some ethical issues that might occur while conducting
research study. It will also discuss effectiveness of thematic analysis and clear communication
with sample or target people.
Epistemology and ethics
In regard to epistemology, it can be said that it refers a branch of philosophy that deals
with sources of knowledge. It is concerned with nature, sources, possibilities and limitations of
knowledge. It enables researcher in knowing all those things that are known to be true. It’s all
about increasing knowledge by identifying sources of knowledge (Al-Ababneh, 2020).
Knowledge in business study can be categorised into 2-3 types and as per the epistemology
philosophy, researcher tries to gain knowledge by using all appropriate sources such as:
Logistic knowledge: It is a creation of new knowledge via application of logistic
reasoning.
Authoritarian: It relies on those data that has been gained from books, experts and
research papers.
Intuitive: As with name itself, it refers knowledge that is based on beliefs, intuition and
faith.
Empirical: It relies on objective facts that can be demonstrated.
One of the main issue related to epistemology that researchers and people may face is: to know
certain kinds of things that people claim to know. As in the conversation of Ben, Vilma, Roy and
Irene, it can be said that the main epistemology was sources of information or knowledge
knowing about people keep moving exercise program that was going to held for older people.
There were different sources of information and knowledge from where Irene, Vilma and Roy
came to know about this programme.
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Ethical issues: Ethics refer moral principles that must follow by researchers and people.
It enables people in identifying the difference between the right and wrong. by knowing this
difference, people can protect themselves from conducting wrong thing and failure as well (Kara,
2018). In this study, the main ethic was: everyone participated in People keep moving exercise
program voluntarily as no one was forced and it was the thing that made this exercise successful.
Qualitative method: In research study, qualitative refers a form of collecting data. When
researchers and people collect data in the form of non-numerical or in feelings form then it is
known as qualitative research. In this study, Ben, researcher worker collected information from 3
participants in feelings form by asking some questions regarding exercise. It helped him out in
knowing all about health care project and effectiveness (Allan, 2020). So, in this context it can
be said that qualitative research method gives in depth knowledge and detailed information and it
is the reason, this method has been used.
Thematic data analysis After collecting data, it is important for researcher to analyse
them as data analyse makes them able in improving decision making by refining and evaluating
collected data. Selection of data analysis technique depends on the type of research type. As in
this study, qualitative strategy has been selected so, for analysing non-numerical data researcher
has selected thematic analysis under qualitative data analysis tool. In regard to thematic data
analysis, it can be said that it is one of the best ways of analysing collected data. It is being used
when researchers have collected data in the form of non-numerical or in theoretical form. It helps
out in knowing about people’s views, knowledge, opinion and values from a set of qualitative
data. Survey, interview, questionnaire are some sources from which qualitative data can be
collected and by preparing themes, data can be evaluated.
By preparing themes on the basis of conversation with participants, data regarding
exercise project has been analysed.
So, on the basis of above discussed epistemology, qualitative and ethics, it can be said that it
plays an important role in making research study successful.
FINDINGS ON DIFFERENT THEMES
Ways to know about people keep moving group exercise programme or epistemology of this
study
As it is known that epistemology is all about collecting data from appropriate sources and to gain
knowledge from them. This study is all about a project of encouraging older people for engaging
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