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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1. This Assignment can be best attempted from the knowledge acquired
after
watching video lecture no. 03 and lecture no. 26 to lecture no. 28 and reading
handouts (as well as a recommended textbook).
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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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SOLUTION
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.
