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Someone who believes that a cross-sectional design may work best to interpret the perception of pain severity and quality of life in cancer patients would mostly design their research based off of one point in time. This data is collected on only one occasion with the same subjects rather than the same subjects at several different time points. I feel that this type of study would work well if focusing on the pain severity of comparing medications to another, but in this case I feel that the pain severity and quality of life would need to be measured at different points of the day and throughout their cancer treatment. Focusing on only one set of data at a specific time only allows for so much information which wouldn’t be enough to interpret the pain severity and quality of life per each patient. I also think that the cross-sectional study would be narrowed to data and doesn’t include enough cancer patients to fully grasp the answers to the research question.
A quasi-expiremental design would work well based on what data is being needed for the research question. Because the question is focusing on the pain severity and quality of life, this design allows for several different hypothesis to be utilized. This would allow for the max amount of data to be researched and applied to the question. Although each group has great reasoning for their choice in an experimental design, its important to know what type of research is being needed and how they are going to go about grabbing this set of data in each study. I believe that it is very important to have a set of members reviewing and being part of the study because it offers multiple different perspectives of what is going good in the study or what should be improved. Without the several perspectives from team members, there can be a lack of information or several errors that go unnoticed if performed by one person.
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A cross sectional case study examines the data one time and on one occasion with the same subjects. This type of case study looks at the relationships and differences of the design. A cross sectional case study can have multiple hypothesis, however, all of their variables will be related to the outcome. This study would be tested one time with one specific group. With this study, I feel like you would get the outcome of this study and just go based off of that data and nothing else. Yes, this could be helpful for this specific situation but not all patients have the same pain tolerance or quality of life, so I feel like this study would have to be done multiple times with different groups.
A quasi experimental design is to look for a cause and effect of a relationship. The groups of this design are not randomly picked. If the interprofessional team was using the quasi experimental design, the groups would be pulled by selecting a group of advanced cancer patients, because that is who we are dealing with. This group would not be picked randomly, the participants would be selected, to test the hypothesis. I feel like this group has more to come out of this study because this study can be tested again and again with different groups of cancer patients to test their pain severity and quality of life. This will give a broad outcome of different groups.
It will be important to have an interprofessional team to review and be apart of the study for different perspectives. I think it would be very beneficial to have people go back and forth on their ideas and opinions. Being able to hear what others have to say about the studies, whether which would be beneficial or not, would be a good step in the right direction on getting the most accurate answers.
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