Occupational Therapy Year 1 Building Evidence Essay
Module title: Building Evidence for Occupational Therapy
Module code: OCT 1011-N
Module tutor: Chris Mckenna
Hand in date: Friday 18th December
Word count:
This assignment will discuss how as an Occupational Therapist, they would gather the relevant information from clients who use their service they are providing for them, they will aim to collect ideas and opinions about their service from service users, and to understand client satisfaction with the current service provision. Therefore it will discuss the methodology that will be used to collect the data, in this case will be Qualitative research. It will then go on to define what the methodology is, the strengths of the method, and the reason behind opting to choose them. It would then explore what type of information it will obtain, how measurable and reliable the data is, but also it will discuss the limitations of the chosen research method, in order to try gain a true opinion of what the service users thinks of the service being received. After identifiying what the clients feel about the service, it will then discuss how the department could benefit from the feedback given.
Qualitative data is when researchers try to gather information usually based on a particular phenomenon. It aims to gather information regarding people’s opinions and views, also to understand people’s values, motivations, perceptions and reactions. The context of this data is usually rich and has depth to the information that has been given, so often can not be generalised to a wider population, nor can be transferred into statistics, unlike other methodologies such as quantitative data which uses a structured scientific approach towards collating data, in order to make the findings measurable and generalised to wider society. Therefore quantitative data does not bring out the feelings and opinions of the
Module code: OCT 1011-N
Module tutor: Chris Mckenna
Hand in date: Friday 18th December
Word count:
This assignment will discuss how as an Occupational Therapist, they would gather the relevant information from clients who use their service they are providing for them, they will aim to collect ideas and opinions about their service from service users, and to understand client satisfaction with the current service provision. Therefore it will discuss the methodology that will be used to collect the data, in this case will be Qualitative research. It will then go on to define what the methodology is, the strengths of the method, and the reason behind opting to choose them. It would then explore what type of information it will obtain, how measurable and reliable the data is, but also it will discuss the limitations of the chosen research method, in order to try gain a true opinion of what the service users thinks of the service being received. After identifiying what the clients feel about the service, it will then discuss how the department could benefit from the feedback given.
Qualitative data is when researchers try to gather information usually based on a particular phenomenon. It aims to gather information regarding people’s opinions and views, also to understand people’s values, motivations, perceptions and reactions. The context of this data is usually rich and has depth to the information that has been given, so often can not be generalised to a wider population, nor can be transferred into statistics, unlike other methodologies such as quantitative data which uses a structured scientific approach towards collating data, in order to make the findings measurable and generalised to wider society. Therefore quantitative data does not bring out the feelings and opinions of the
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