Free Report About Qualitative Approach

The aim of this research was to find out the effects of the Self-intermittent catheterisation (SIMC) on the quality of life and on the behavior of the patients. The research found out that SIMC had huge impact on the life of the eight men. SIMC affected their self esteem, sleep, social life and personal life (Bakes, 2008). Thus, the nature of the research is social science since it is looking at describing the experience, behavior and consciousness of the eight patients (men) who empty their bladder through Self-intermittent catheterisation (SIMC). It is not easy to calculate, quantify or weigh the behavior, experience, consciousness and quality of life of an individual. Therefore, the suitable approach for this research is qualitative since it tries to describe the behavior of the patients (Ritchie et al., 2013)
Quantitative research looks at which rate (prevalent) the common theme happens to all correspondents in terms of percentage or numbers (as how long does each corresponded experience a certain theme) to arrive at conclusions (Richey et al., 2014). However, since humans react differently to different situation, it is not easy to have a common theme to all the correspondents of this research in terms of percentage or in a sequence. It is possible to have different and distinct themes in all the corresponded. Hence, it would be hard to get the mean or mode of themes to arrive at a conclusion which will be the representation of all the correspondents. For example, it would be wrong to say all the correspondents of the research experience low self esteem of 10% when they use SIMC. Thus, the quantitative research cannot be used in this research.
The research is phenomenology in nature and subjective. It is not an experiment where variables can be adjusted and the life cannot be relived. Additionally, there are no clear cut endings since it’s an ongoing events/ process. Thus, the intensity and frequency of the events and results is unknown. The data (conclusions) depend on the views and the feelings of the correspondents which can change overtime. Furthermore, the research findings depend on the interpretations of the researcher on the views of the correspondents. The researcher interprets the views by assigning a certain quality to the views of the respondents to have a clear description of the correspondent’s feelings. Due to lack of clear cut endings, frequencies of the events (results) and the fact that interpretations of data can change from one researcher to another, hence the research is unfit for quantitative research. It only fit the qualitative research since the researcher can describe the events or the results without concentrating their frequency or commonality (Ritchie et al., 2013).

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Bakes, B. J. (2008). The lived experience of self-intermittent catheterisation in people with spinal cord injury. Retrieved from http://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/204
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