Designs and Procedures



Designs and Procedures

(A) For the Qualitative Article: “Developing a Family-Based Depression Prevention

Program in Urban Community Mental Health

Clinics: A Qualitative Investigation”

a. Which of the 4 basic qualitative approaches do you think the authors approach most closely resembles?

The approach identified in this qualitative article is the inductive approach as it uses a generalized data and theory and was used to analyze certain aspects of the larger population - urban community mental health clinics.

b. Describe the primary data collection method used?

The primary data collection method used in this particular study was by way of focus groups. The focus groups were interviewed in detail and probe questions were used to stimulate discussion on the issue at hand. Furthermore, interviews were conducted and codified from the focus group.

c. What analytic technique was used in this study?

The content analytic technique was used to code the transcripts after which a comparative analysis was carried out of the open coding units.

d. What procedures did the authors include/describe that may support the trustworthiness and credibility of the results?

The authors/researchers gathered data from patients with a specific mental illness - depression - so that only information relevant to the overall study would be achieved. Furthermore, they coded their interview and discussion responses due to which the emotional element was removed from the final analysis and results. Hence, the results could be held as credible.

(B) For the Quantitative Article: “The prevention of depressive symptoms in low-income, minority children: Two-year follow-up”

a. How do the authors describe their research design?

The authors describe their research design as being quantitative. This is due to the fact that they share numerical data collected from primary research by way of interviews with the participants.

b. Which of the 3 basic designs does this most closely resemble? (True experiment, quasi-experiment, non/pre-experiment)

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