The mixed methods and qualitative checklists have section
called Demographics, in which you should discuss the relevant demographic
characteristics of your participants. Typical items include gender, race, and
age, as well as any characteristics specific to your study. For example, if you
interviewed homeless teen mothers, it would be important to know how long they
have been on their own and the age of their children.
For all methods, the next section is Data Collection. You
need to describe when the study was done (for example, months and year).
Describe how you recruited your participants, and how many participated in all
phases of the study. If you had to change any of your data collection
procedures from what was listed in c. 3, indicate how and why it was changed
(and that you went through IRB to do so).
For Qualitative and Mixed Methods
Studies. Describe the location of your
study, how often you met with participants and the length of time both for individual
interviews/surveys and for the total study. Next, describe how you recorded
your interviews and how they were transcribed. If you encountered any unusual
circumstances during your data collection describe it and how it affected your
data collection (e.g., equipment failure, a participant died between
interviews, etc.).
For Quantitative Studies.
Describe your demographics as discussed above. Describe how representative your
sample is to the population of interest or how proportional it is to the larger
population if non-probability sampling is used (external validity). Provide
results of basic univariate analyses that justify inclusion of covariates in
your model, if applicable.
For this section, keep in mind that your reader should have
a good picture of how you did your study, and would be able to replicate it
based upon your description.
Next time we will talk about c.4: Data Analyses:
Quantitative. Do you have an issue or a question that you would like me to
discuss in a future post? Would you like
to be a guest writer? Send me your ideas! leann.stadtlander@waldenu.edu
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