Essay On Qualitative Research Study

Section B

1.Purpose of the study:
What was the aim of the research study?
The aims of the Quality of life after percutaneous coronary intervention research study were to assess the holistic quality of life of patients who have undergone percutaneous coronary intervention and to also identify the significant dissimilarities in quality of life among the subgroups of patients by their demographic characteristics and perceived cardiac risk factors. (Cassar & Baldacchino, 2012)

2.Research design:
What type of quantitative/qualitative methodology was used?
Quantitative methodology was adopted throughout the research study using a descriptive cross-sectional survey design that was collected from patients who had undergone percutaneous coronary intervention between the dates of January 2009 and March 2010 (Cassar & Baldacchino, 2012).

A descriptive cross sectional design can be used to determine the strain of a particular disease in a characterised community.(HealthKnowledge,2011) A cross sectional design is when the data is collected only once as for the opposite of longitudinal design when the data is collected several times across a period of time

An advantage of quantitative data is that it gives a voice to the patients and in-depth data and this is known as descriptive research design. As for quantitative research design is done by collecting data by closed ended questions and any other data which generates numbers (quantity) such as blood pressure readings , weight and blood investigations . These are conveyed through box ticking , surveys and experiments (compare and contrast before and after treatment) . Quantitative data collection methods are much more structured than Qualitative data collection methods (Wyse, S.