STA630 Assignment No 2 Solution

Research Methods (STA 630)

 

Semester “Fall 2010”

Assignment No.  02                                         Marks:  20
“Patients’ attitude”
An NGO working for the welfare of cancer patients wants to conduct a survey to measure
cancer patients’ attitudes toward the doctor’s personality, behavior, competence, and prescribed
treatment, in the public hospitals of Lahore. A researcher has been hired for this purpose.
There are 10 hospitals in the city that are treating cancer patients. Administrators of
seven famous hospitals in the city are ready to cooperate with the researcher and provide him the
information about cancer patients admitted to the hospital. While the other three hospitals
refused to provide any information for some reason. On the basis of the information provided
by 07 hospitals, he has a list of 500 cancer patients, admitted to these public hospitals of
Lahore.
The researcher decided to take a simple random sample of 150 patients for the survey. He
collected data by filling out a questionnaire from selected patients and analyzed the data to
draw conclusions.

Questions:
1.  Identify the population in the given scenario?         (5 Marks)
2.  What is the Sampling Frame in the given Scenario?                    (5 Marks)
3.  Identify the Sampling unit and Observation unit in the given scenario?            (5 Marks)
4.  What type of research is this? Descriptive, exploratory, or explanatory      (5 Marks)
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 SOLUTION

 

 

Q.No.1

Identify the population in the given scenario?

 

Answer;

In the given scenario, the cancer patients admitted into the public hospitals of Lahore are the population.

 

Q.No.2

What is the sampling frame in the given scenario?

 

Answer;

The ten public hospitals of Lahore city engaged in the treatment of cancer patients are the sampling frame in the given scenario.

 

Q.No.3

Identify the sampling unit and observation unit in the given scenario?

 

Answer;

In the given scenario, the public hospitals of Lahore engaged in the treatment of cancer patients are the primary sampling unit and the seven hospitals which decided to cooperate with the research project are the secondary sampling unit.

 

As it is a single-level sampling, therefore the seven hospitals (engaged in the treatment of cancer patients) of Lahore (which are also the secondary sampling unit) are the observation unit.

Q.No.4

What type of research is this? Descriptive, exploratory, or explanatory?

 

Answer;

In my view, the research conducted by the NGO is descriptive in nature because its motive is to describe the cancer patient s’ attitude towards the doctor s’ personality, behavior, competence, and prescribed treatment. This kind of research is conducted to find the answers to questions like who, when, where, and what. how etc.




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Semester “Fall 2010”
“Research Methods (STA 630)”
Assignment No. 02 Marks: 20

“PATIENTS’ ATTITUDE”

An NGO working for the welfare of cancer patients wants to conduct a survey to measure cancer patients’ attitudes toward the doctor’s personality, behavior, competence, and prescribed treatment, in the public hospitals of Lahore. A researcher has been hired for this purpose. There are 10 hospitals in the city that are treating cancer patients. Administrators of seven famous hospitals in the city are ready to cooperate with the researcher and provide him the information about cancer patients admitted to the hospital. While the other three hospitals refused to provide any information for some reason. On the basis of the information provided by 07 hospitals, he has a list of 500 cancer patients, admitted to these public hospitals of Lahore. The researcher decided to take a simple random sample of 150 patients for the survey. He collected data by filling out a questionnaire from selected patients and analyzed the data to draw conclusions.

 

Question no 1:

Identify the population in the given scenario?

 

Answer:

In this scenario, the population is 500 patients in 7 hospitals.

 

Question no 2:

What is the Sampling Frame in the given Scenario?

 

Answer:

In this scenario, the sample frame is the population of cancer patients in 7 hospitals and the total list is 500 patients.

 

Question no 3:

Identify the Sampling unit and Observation unit in the given scenario?

 

Answer:

Sampling Unit

150 patients is taken as the sample unit of the survey

 

Observation Unit

The observation unit in this scenario is 7 Hospitals in Lahore.

 

Question no 4:

What type of research is this? Descriptive, exploratory, or explanatory

 

Answer:

Exploratory Research
as we know that cancer research is a new topic in Pakistan. So we are doing research from the beginning that why it is exploratory research. In this research, we do some extra efforts to develop good research that helps in future research.


In light of my knowledge, my opinion is that this is Exploratory Research.


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