The relationship between compassion fatigue and burnout among critical care nurses Method: Quantitative
- Exploring the rate of seasonal-pattern depression in an Inuit community
Method: Qualitative
Design Study: Ethnographic
Rationale: The method is qualitative because qualitative studies do not focus on numbers or variables. Qualitative research focuses on the feeling, beliefs, and/or perception. The design is ethnographic because the study is exploring participants in their environment (Houser, 2018).
- Democracy in America
Method: Qualitative
Design Study: Historical
Rationale: Qualitative research focuses on the perception and values. The design is a Historical Study. This design study uses data from the past as it relates to the current Democracy in America. Allowing for data on the progression of a perception (Houser, 2018).
- The relationship between compassion fatigue and burnout among critical care nurses
Method: Quantitative
Design Study: Correlation
Rationale: Quantitative methods of research focus on data that are mensurable. Compassion fatigue and burnout among nurses is a measurable study. The study allows for the collection of data between two variables. The two variables of this study are compassion fatigue and burnout among critical nurses. (Houser, 2018)
- Two drugs for Alzheimer’s show promise
Method: Quantitative
Design Study: Experimental design
Rationale: Quantitative methods of research will focus on the two drugs. I chose experimental design because this type of study is used in comparing a test group to a control group. (Houser, 2018)
- Evaluating technology with student success
Method: Quantitative
Design Study: Case Study
Rational: Quantitative method is used to measure student success. Case studies are used to determine the data related to a single event. In this case, the event is how technology affects compares to success (Houser, 2018).
- Factors that influence weight control among women
Method: Quantitative
Design Study: Case Study
Rationale: Quantitative methods of research focus on data that are measurable, such as numbers and variables. A case study could be used for the factors influencing weight control. In this study, the researchers are investigating the factors that influence weight control in the female population (Houser, 2018).
- The meaning of living with brain injury and stroke 10 years after the injury
Method: Qualitative
Design Study: Phenomenological
Rationale: Qualitative research focuses on the feeling and perceptions of the specific population being investigated. A phenomenological study is a lived experience therefore I believe this could be the design study (Houser, 2018).
- Exploring the beliefs of healing among Aborigines
Method: Qualitative
Design Study: Ethnography
Rationale: I chose qualitative, because the study is exploring the beliefs of a specific population, and beliefs cannot be measured. The design study is ethnography, because this type of study focuses on the culturally beliefs over a extended period of time (Houser, 2018).
References
Houser, J. (2018). Nursing research: Reading, using, and creating evidence (4th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning. Retrieved from https://digitalbookshelf.south
