Paper 3 Practice - Stimulus Hospice

What is the study's research method?

• Focus-group interviews

• Correlational study

• Overt-Participatory Naturalistic observation

• Case study

What is one hallmark of this method?

• Uses open ended questions

• Looks at a particular individual or group in-depth

• Can establish causality

• Usually uses volunteer sampling

What is another hallmark of the method?

• Involve the use of questionnaires

• Participants are unaware they are being observed

• Uses a double-blind technique to ensure validity

• Can help generate new theories by examining unique phenomenon

What is this study's sampling method?

• Opportunity

• Random

• Purposive

• Snowball

What is one hallmark of this sampling method?

• A non-probability sampling technique

• Achieves a large sample size through reaching a wide audience, for example with online advertisements

• This method is easy and inexpensive to carry out

• This method offers an unbiased chance of gaining a representative sample

What is another hallmark of this sampling technique?

• Easier to obtain participants from 'hard to reach' populations

• Participants are often paid for participating

• Researchers select participants most relevant to the research question

• Participants are chosen based on their potential to contribute to the emerging themes and concepts in previous data

Which of the following is NOT a valid alternative or additional research method given the aim of the study?

• Semi-structured interview

• Survey

• Field-experiment

• All could be valid given the aim

What is one ethical consideration applied within the study?

• Participants are informed of their right to withdraw

• Participants identities were kept confidential from other participants

• Participants were informed of the aim and consented to being studied

• Participants received monetary compensation for their participation

What is one ethical consideration that should have been applied within the study.

• Participants were a vulnerable population, approval for this study should come from an ethics board

• Participants needed to be protected from harm

• Participants needed to be debriefed

• Participants were deceived about the aim of the study

What is one way in which the researcher could have avoided bias

• Gather semi-structured interviews instead of focus groups

• Not participated during the observations

• Gathered a representative sample

• Have the observations occur in a lab