Assignment #3 – Group Project

Target: 

• Identify the differences between quantitative and qualitative research methods in health care to develop actionable research projects.

Step #1: Topic selection

The instructor will provide a list of topics; the team also should submit the team agreement plan with the selected topic in week 1 for the faculty feedback and approval.  

Step #2: Literature Review (Performing Qualitative analysis)

This section of the assignment is aimed at giving students an opportunity to select and analyze 3-5 peer-reviewed articles, depends on the size of the TEAM, each team member should summarize one article and extract bias-table for 2 articles, if the size of team has increased to 6 the number of articles will stay at 5 and if the size of team has reduced to 4 the number of article can be adjusted to 4 articles.

2.

1. To summarize an article, consider the following items:

1. A short introduction (A structural summary of the article)

2. Research hypothesis or questions

3. Methodology, including:

1. Data

2. Year of data

3. Research method (type of analysis for example descriptive analysis, ttest, regression model, etc.)

4. Findings, please report main findings

5. Discussion, the discussion

6. Add the paper in reference list using APA style

 Step #3: Performing Quantitative data analysis design, this is very similar to the Individual Assignments 1 and 2.

For this section:

3.1.  Select one of the class data sets

3.2. Identify relevant variables

3.3. Choose the statistical method you plan to use for your analysis

3.4. Identify statistical software your team will use to run the statistical analysis focusing on EXCEL or RStudio as the main software (you can use any other software such as SAS, STATA or SPSS, but the master-code will be available only for RStudio) 

3.5. Analyze the data, state your conclusions and support them, this section should be included:

3.5.1. Hypothesis or research questions with a short paragraph to discuss the issue.

3.5.2.  Research Method for this section first report the table of variables, then define the variables using the example provided in step-by-step instruction.

3.5.3.  Report the software and type of analysis you performed in this section included descriptive table and plots

3.5.4. Discuss your findings

3.5.5. Discussion: for this section compare your finding with the LR (literature review) you performed in the first section

3.5.6. Recommendations: suggest a few policy recommendations based on your finding and LR.