Disaster preparedness among nurses in Saudi Arabia

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CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY /RESEARCH DESIGN

The arrangement and creation of a research methodology plays a very vital role in conducting a research, for a research to be efficient it is important that proper research methodology is applied. The person conducting the research can only gather the data and interpret it efficiently if he has designed a dependable research methodology before the beginning of research. For this very reason the researcher has to think of the importance of a proper research methodology to carry out a research and deduce valid results. There is a huge cache of modes and approaches available to be selected by the person conducting the research while designing a methodology for a specific research (Richardson, 2011). The researcher needs to evaluate and illustrate these modes so that he can select the most proper and applicable modes and techniques in relation to objectives of the research and anticipated nature of the data gathering and evaluation. The evaluation of different modes and systems must be done before the commencement of the research to avoid any problems related to the collection of data and its interpretation during the research. This enables the researcher to conduct the research more efficiently and in addition to that it also saves the time required to gather the data and evaluate it (Nieswiadomy, 2012). Unreliable research modes will not have a positive effect on the objectives and research will not be able to deduce logical results. This indicates that assessment of company and scrutiny of different modes of data collection and analysis needs to be carried out precisely and properly.

As stated in chapter one the primary aim for this study was to assess the preparedness for disaster management among nurses in Saudi Arabia regarding their knowledge and skills. Beside this, to identify from where the nurses in Saudi Arabia acquired their information and kills about disaster management. Based ON the recommendations of a study was conducted by (Al Khalaileh, Bond, & Alasad, 2012) to measure the level of knowledge , skills , and preparedness for disaster management and also to know from where nurses in Jordan acquired their skills and knowledge if they have . Thus the researcher replicates this study using the same aim, adjectives, research design, tools, and methods of collecting data and methods of analyzing the data. In this chapter, the rational of replicating this study will be addressed. Furthermore, the measuring tool, setting, ethical considerations, sample, ethical permission and consent of replicating this study will also be discussed.

3.1 Replication Study

For this study a quantitative non-excremental descriptive design was used. Norwood (2010) states that “Replication study is a research study that duplicates a prior study “(p. 201). Furthermore, she determines that usually the replications are conducted in different places and different sampling from the original study in order to improve the evidence based practice. Haller (1986) states that replicating a study plays a significant role in gaining skills and plays an important role in studying research method for ...