Qualitative Research Analysis

Qualitative research includes methods that allow the investigator to explore a problem for the purpose of collecting unknown data to contribute the scientific theory. Moreover, this approach to research allows the researcher to fully investigate the underpinnings related to the research problem. Data collection for this method of research includes in-depth interviews and observations in natural settings. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to analyze two qualitative research articles and to further refine pertinent areas of my research topic.

Section One
Article One Analysis
This work posits that medical professionals, i.e. nurses, often find themselves with patients who are grappling with life regrets and unresolved relational conflicts. To this end, Ferrell, Green and Garcia (2013) posit that medical caregivers may find themselves providing care terminally ill or end of life patients. Developmental theorist argue that it is not uncommon for older adults to contemplate and struggle with issues of dispositional, interpersonal, and self-forgiveness. Lacking formal training in grief interventions, nurses and doctors may feel at a lost because they are not equipped to address a patients trepidations regarding forgiveness. Thus, the purpose of this qualitative study was to describe and identify the contextual settings in which medical professionals’ observe patients expressing life regrets and/or need for forgiveness. Therefore, participants, n=389 were recruited while attending a medical continuing education seminar sponsored by the End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC). The primary means for collecting data was via survey which included demographical and a single open ended question.
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... was met with the challenge of participant dropout. A third of the participants did not participate in the second data collection. One could argue that this high percentage skewed data outcomes although the scholars migrated for this disparity.
The findings from this study suggested that predictors of mortality rate were related to one accepting God’s unconditional forgiveness but unwilling or unable to give that same unconditional forgiveness to others. Moreover, conditional forgiveness of other remained a significant predictor of mortality even when religiosity, social demographical, and health were controlled for. This appears to contribute to human biopsychosocial theory because it is a good starting point to investigating longitudinal effects of forgiveness. Such knowledge also makes forgiveness interventions for older adults a feasible area of study.