Qualitative Case Study

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Qualitative
Research question: How are medical practices and procedures suited in controlling issues of self-poisoning, self-inflicted cuts and hitting body parts by the mentally ill in the US today?
Aims and objectives: The overall goal that the researcher wants to achieve by the analysis of the current study is tagged as the aim of the research, while the attendant tasks that must be performed to achieve the aim is referred to as objectives of the study.
Aim:
The researcher aims at qualitatively studying the extent to which medical practices that are in application within the US are customized to address issues of self harm with respect to mentally ill patients and how the tools applied promote or inhabit effective health care delivery to the patients.
Objectives:
To evaluate the foregoing satisfaction by the medical practitioners concerning tools adopted in addressing self-harm by mentally ill patients and their effectiveness.
To identify the various tools and approaches that are applied in addressing self harm by mentally ill patients in the US currently.

Epistemology
This research study adopts an ‘interpretivism’ epistemology because the qualitative approach is more investigative (Goldkuhl, 2012, p. 138-140). This is because understanding the suitability of medical practices and tools qualitatively requires the use of distinctive opinions and thoughts than it is in using quantitative methodology. Besides, the study focuses on answering epistemic questions mainly approaching practice as knowledge as well as understanding the nature and validity of the knowledge generated through practice as is to be gotten from practitioners. Qualitative literature will also be very useful in this epistemological approach in studying the ...

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...thod as adopted for this study has main advantage in that little time is used while collecting data as factual empirical figures are to be collected. Besides, comparison and interpretation of results is easy while compared with other methods like the qualitative methods (Weber, 2004, p. 10-11). Moreover, in the quantitative study, an individual is in a position to maintain control over the study as against the qualitative study (Kim, 2003, p. 10).
However, the process of quantitative study is less flexible, poor in interpreting social issues as well as failure to associate with value that people associate with social phenomena. When the process of collecting data commences, it becomes hard to change and this shows inflexibility. This would be overcome by only designing multidimensional questionnaires for collecting data where one projects possibility of changing.

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