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According to Easterbrook, (2008), “qualitative methods are used typically in research projects that take a human-focused perspective in the design and implementation of the investigation” (p. 828). This paper theme explains the reasoning for a topic’s approach as qualitative research. Additionally, the paper’s theme identifies the research design appropriateness while providing a rationale for not using other research designs. The qualitative research designs include phenomenological, ethnographic, grounded theory and case study. The approach to a research issue depends on the research question and the study’s goal. The phenomenological method provides for investigating the social science of consciousness as a legitimate subject matter for human psychology. Therefore, phenomenology provides a way of exploring lived experience, the actuality of the experience from the inside rather than from the natural science perspective of observation and measurement (Bevan, 2014). Ethnography is “to understand how behaviors reflect the culture of a group” (Leedy & Ormrod, 2010, p. 146). The ethnographer study provides for discovering another person's cultural knowledge. Three general categories of ethnographic design questions include descriptive, structural, and contrast. The goal of these questions typically involves the characteristic or interpretation of human behavior, practices, ideas, and values (Shalinsky, 2006). The grounded theory approach focuses on unscrambling the components of experience (Moustakas, 1994). The study of the components and their interrelationships provides for the development of a theory enabling the researcher to comprehend the character and significance of the experience for a particular subject group of people ... ... middle of paper ... ...an Journal of Medical Sciences, 67(3), 89-98. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5359.121127 Leedy, P. D., & Ormrod, J. E. (2010). Practical research: Planning and design (9th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Mantzoukas, S., (2008). Facilitating research students in formulating qualitative research questions, Nurse Education Today, 28(3), 371-377, doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2007.06.012. Moustakas, C. (1994). Phenomenological research methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. Shalinsky, A. (2006). Fieldwork, ethnographic. In H. Birx (Ed.), Encyclopedia of anthropology. 969-970. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.apollolibrary.com/10.4135/9781412952453.n343 University of Phoenix. (2013). Sample Qualitative and Quantitative Problem Statements. Retrieved from University of Phoenix, Res/722A - Research Design website.

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